Daily Archives: June 29, 2011

6 Excellent Tools For Writing Without Distractions

June 29, 2011
6 Excellent Tools For Writing Without Distractions

iA Writer Platform: Mac, iPadCost: $17.99 for Mac; $4.99 for iPad.Try It: http://www.iawriter.com/ iA Writer is a popular writing application with a design that’s about as minimalist as they come. The interface contains very few options and preferences to tinker with. You can put it into full screen mode or FocusMode, which highlights only...

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Ballmer Hits Back At Critics: YOU TELL ME IF I LACK ENERGY OR CONVICTION! (MSFT)

June 29, 2011
Ballmer Hits Back At Critics: YOU TELL ME IF I LACK ENERGY OR CONVICTION! (MSFT)

Image: Flickr/The CBI See Also: Ballmer: It’s Called Windows 8 And It’s Coming In 2012* Ballmer Wanted Nokia Deal So Badly, He Sent A Huge Limo To Pick Up Stephen Elop Why Has Microsoft Stock Popped 6% In Two Days? Steve Ballmer is literally shouting down the critics who think he should be leaving...

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Watch Twitter Explode: Google+ Invites Granted To Early Users

June 29, 2011
Watch Twitter Explode: Google+ Invites Granted To Early Users

If there’s been a question I’ve been asked more than “do you have any Google+ invites?”, I can’t remember it. And it’s only been a day! Sadly, I haven’t had any invites to give out. Google has decided they’re going to roll out the network very slowly. Or that was the plan. It now...

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MOSSBERG: HP TouchPad "No Match" For The iPad (HPQ, AAPL)

June 29, 2011
MOSSBERG: HP TouchPad "No Match" For The iPad (HPQ, AAPL)

Image: Robert Scoble See Also: Here Are 21 Big, Beautiful Screenshots Of HP’s TouchPad WebOS In Action OFFICIAL: HP TouchPad Launches July 1 For Same Price As iPad SWEET DEAL! HP Will Knock $50 Off The TouchPad If You Already Have A Pre Or Pixi The HP Touchpad is “no match” for the iPad,...

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Google+: A targeted response to Facebook’s shotgun approach

June 29, 2011
Google+: A targeted response to Facebook’s shotgun approach

This week’s news from Google was the most exciting thing I’ve heard from the company in years. After languishing with social and its utter failures with both Google Wave and Google Buzz, the company is putting an intriguing product to market: a social network. For years, people across the tech industry have beat the...

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Twitter to launch site for platform developers

June 29, 2011
Twitter to launch site for platform developers

Twitter, the San Francisco-based social messaging service, is working to develop and launch a dedicated site for developers working on the Twitter platform. The new site could be launched sometime in July, company officials said. The fast-growing company has had a hot-and-cold relationship with its developer community, to put it mildly. Many early developers...

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SAICAST: The Lame Lawsuits Against Google Disco And GroupMe (GOOG, LNKD)

June 29, 2011
SAICAST: The Lame Lawsuits Against Google Disco And GroupMe (GOOG, LNKD)

Image: Brooke Hammerling via Instagram See Also: SAICAST: Why Didn’t Google Just Buy LinkedIn? Wow, Google+ Looks EXACTLY Like Facebook Here’s One Reason Facebook Should Be Nervous About Google+ SUBSCRIBE TO THIS PODCAST ON ITUNES HERE Texting services Google Disco and GroupMe are being sued for spamming people’s phones. Alyson Shontell, Jay Yarow and...

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Here’s Why You Should Get Your Wharton MBA In San Francisco

June 29, 2011
Here’s Why You Should Get Your Wharton MBA In San Francisco

Image: Wharton on Flickr Wharton Business School’s West Coast campus is moving to a beautiful new site, to the historic Hills Plaza building on the San Francisco waterfront. MBA students will be attending the new campus by early 2012. The school needed more space for its San Francisco MBA students, since there has been...

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Larry Summers is now an advisor for Andreessen Horowitz.

June 29, 2011
Larry Summers is now an advisor for Andreessen Horowitz.

Larry Summers is now an advisor for Andreessen Horowitz. And also that you will climb Mount Everest. Read » The 15 Most Expensive iPad Apps The Org Charts Of All The Major Tech Companies (Humor) Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook. Follow Jay Yarow on Twitter. Advertisement: Article source: SAI http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~3/BgM5p1o5kWM/larry-summers-is-now-an-advisor-for-andreessen-horowitz-2011-6

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The afterlife: When founders leave

June 29, 2011
The afterlife: When founders leave

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone officially announced Tuesday his plans to step away from Twitter’s day-to-day operations. While it’s a move that many folks in the industry have seen coming for months now — Stone has spent more time outside the office as Twitter’s public face in press interviews and vodka commercials — his official...

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