Daily Archives: April 27, 2012

Tumblr President John Maloney Steps Down, Promises “Awesome New Stuff”

April 27, 2012
Tumblr President John Maloney Steps Down, Promises “Awesome New Stuff”

Tumblr President John Maloney just posted (on his Tumblr, natch) that he’s stepping down from a day-to-day operational role at the company. “It’s the right time for me and a good time for Tumblr,” Maloney writes. “We’re in great hands with David and the excellent leadership team we’ve built.” However, he says he will...

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Weekly Wrap-up: CISPA Passes The House

April 27, 2012
Weekly Wrap-up: CISPA Passes The House

The Google Drive Review You’ve Been Waiting For Google Drive launched this week to much attention. Jon Mitchell did an in-depth review on Google Drive, based on his early preview of the service. And, while he doesn’t feel that Google Drive goes far enough, he is very encouraged by this latest offering from Google....

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No, Windows Does NOT Have 90% Market Share By The Measure That Matters

April 27, 2012
No, Windows Does NOT Have 90% Market Share By The Measure That Matters

AP See Also How The iPad Transformed A 25-Year-Old Company — And A Much Older Industry Google Is Out Of Touch With Reality When It Comes To Android Software Updates Stephen Elop Was Dumb To Kill Nokia’s Cash Cow So Fast, Says Former Exec There’s a weird argument going around today that Windows 8...

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After four years as President of Tumblr, John Maloney steps down

April 27, 2012

In a post appropriately shared on Tumblr, John Maloney has announced that he’s stepping down as President of the content-sharing site. Maloney has filled this role at Tumblr for the past four years, and says that the team is in very capable hands with CEO and founder David Karp. Here’s a excerpt from Maloney’s...

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How This Never-Been-Kissed MIT Nerd Built A $10 Million ‘Sugar Baby’ Dating Empire

April 27, 2012
How This Never-Been-Kissed MIT Nerd Built A $10 Million ‘Sugar Baby’ Dating Empire

Brandon Wade Brandon Wade and his wife, Tanya. See Also Meet The Folks On The Dating Site Where ‘Beautiful People Travel Free’ With ‘Generous’ Men Before He Was Famous, Stanley Kubrick Shot These Beautiful Showgirls And Models In The 1940s This CEO Lost $77 Million, So He Got An $18 Million Raise Brandon Wade...

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Wanted: Big community to unlock big data in big brain

April 27, 2012

When it comes to “big” data, you’re hard-pressed to find a subject bigger than the human brain. Electron microscope images of a cubic millimeter of brain matter are equivalent to a petabyte of data, according to Sebastian Seung, professor of computational neuroscience at MIT, who is on a mission to map the “connectomes” (pronounced...

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TypePad Blogs Get More Relevant With Zemanta Recommendations

April 27, 2012
TypePad Blogs Get More Relevant With Zemanta Recommendations

Life just got a little easier for bloggers who use TypePad. The hosted blogging platform announced that it is integrating Zemanta’s content recommendation tools into its service, which suggests links to related stories from across the Web. Zemanta also generates in-text links to related information. For instance, if you mention Mark Zuckerberg in a post,...

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Spanning Stats Has Scanned 25,000+ Google Drives

April 27, 2012
Spanning Stats Has Scanned 25,000+ Google Drives

Spanning, which already offers a backup service for Google Apps, is now riding the coattails of Google Drive, promising to help people see, “What’s in your Google Drive?” Two days after the Drive announcement, Spanning released a free tool called Spanning Stats that analyzes your Google Drive account. The company says its report provides data...

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YouTube Cofounder Steve Chen Explains What He’s Doing With His New Company

April 27, 2012
YouTube Cofounder Steve Chen Explains What He’s Doing With His New Company

BusinessWeek See Also Do YouTube’s Founders Want To Kill Twitter? This Startup Finally Launched After Being In Super Stealth Mode For Three Years Meet Siri’s Less Popular Sister: Trap.it About a year ago, YouTube cofounders Steve Chen and Chad Hurley bought bookmarking service Delicious from Yahoo, and used it as the basis to form...

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The Winklevoss Twins Are Now VCs: “We Think The Cloud Is Going To Be Huge”

April 27, 2012
The Winklevoss Twins Are Now VCs: “We Think The Cloud Is Going To Be Huge”

It’s a Friday afternoon (in some parts of the world, at least), so go ahead — take a nice long drink of your favorite alcoholic beverage. If you’re like me, you’ll need it to make it through the CNBC interview with the Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss that aired today. It is embedded above for...

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