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| Monday, January 26, 2009 |
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 Dear Facebook: I Need A New Feature Please I have a request for Facebook: Please develop a new feature called "Personal Friends" or "Work Friends" or "Extra Special Friends" or "BFFs" or "Friends You Want To Hear Meaningless Trivia About All Day Long." Please give me the ability to put friends in these groups without telling them I have done so (and, more importantly, without telling the friends I haven't put in the groups that I haven't. I REALLY don't want to offend anyone). Please develop this feature soon, so I can be friends with everyone who wants to be my friend and yet can also follow my actual friends without pissing all my other friends off. If you do that, by the way, I'll finally also be able to just unplug LinkedIn. Read > What A Nigerian Facebook Scam Looks LikeMySpace: Yes, Facebook Kills Our Traffic, But At Least We Make Money!Facebook Email To Ex-Googlers: "Hey, We're Hiring!" | |
| It's Time For Microsoft To Kill The Zune Microsoft recently initiated the first company-wide layoffs in its history, with 1,400 employees let go and an eye towards 5,000 position reductions within 18 months. So with Microsoft scrutinizing itself so deeply, perhaps the company can finally admit it's time to shutter the Zune. Read > | |
| Twitter Raising Money At A $.20 Per Tweet Valuation Microblogging/messaging service Twitter, finally in search of a revenue model, is raising $20 million at a $200 million to $250 million valuation. What's that mean? Twitter's roughly 6 million users are worth about $40 each! Read > | |
| The Top Video Games Set To Take Off In 2009 With gamers increasingly gravitating towards hits, yesterday we looked at FBR Research Heath Terry's predictions on the video games most like to be commercially successful in 2009. Read > | |
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Through the first three quarters of 2008, VC investments were about even with 2007, but in the fourth quarter the bottom fell out. In Q4'08, $5.4 billion was invested, a 33% drop from Q4'07, and 22% fewer deals were made. Read > Why Has Knol Survived Google's Orphan-Project Killing Spree? We're not sure what the thinking here is. We're still not even sure what Knol is for. For a how-to, like performing car maintenance, we'll go to a site that's run by car-fanatics. For general knowledge, Knol can't come close to touching Wikipedia. If anything, Knol seems to have a reputation for nothing so much as plagiarism, ignorance, and self-promotion. Read > Hey Microsoft & Sony, Stop Dissing Each Other, Nintendo Is Crushing Both Of You The snarkfest of trash-talking between Sony and Microsoft over whose game system is better is getting tiresome. Read > New York Times Debt Now Junk, Still No Plan From Management Moody's finally locked the barn door after the horse was gone, downgrading NYTCo's debt to junk. (Most objective observers would agree that it's been there for quite a while). This will make it even more expensive for the company to borrow money to fund its operations, and it's plenty expensive already. Read > Pope: You Won't Find God On MySpace We know a few social networking addicts who seem to spend more time collecting "friends" on Facebook than they spend with actual flesh-and-blood people in real life. Read > | |
| Bartz Finally Squelches Yahoo Press LeaksThrillist Raking In Big Bucks, Launching In Philly Next MonthPainter Puts Picture Of Gawker's Denton For Sale On eBayCan Sexpot Movie Star Megan Fox Save Tomb Raider Publisher Eidos? | |
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