Double Rainbow Guy, Paul Vasquez, at ROFLCon 2012. It’s easy to write off Internet memes — LOLcats, Double Rainbow Guy, taxidermist Chuck Testa – as trivial but entertaining ways to waste time. At least that was my feeling coming into ROFLCon 2012 this weekend anyway. But then a funny thing happened: After two sessions —...
It was less than a week ago that Tenthbit, the developers of the buzzy, new social-networking-app-for-couples (or other partners) Pair, picked up a $4.2 million seed round, money the founders said would be used to expand its mobile development and design teams. Now it looks like some of those funds might also need to...
Business Insider has partnered with Mobile Media Upfront to bring you a special offer on two great NYC mobile conferences. Here’s your chance to attend next week’s Mobile Advertising Upfront and the Mobile Advertising Conference on June 7 for 40% off. Your joint pass will gain you access to two events that explore the mobile...
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In the past year or so since he became the mayor of San Francisco, Ed Lee has become a household name of sorts in the Bay Area technology community — no easy feat for an industry that’s known more for forging its own speedy path, rather than mixing with the notoriously bogged-down world of...
Robert Scoble See Also Now Mark Zuckerberg Is Unlikely To Be On The Facebook IPO Roadshow FACEBOOK SETS IPO PRICE Mark Zuckerberg Will Personally Sell ~$1 Billion Worth Of Facebook Shares At IPO Add Warren Buffett to the list of top-notch advisors Mark Zuckerberg has cultivated over the years. One of the reasons Zuckerberg...
Editor’s note: Erin Tao is a business development associate at Aviary — and, yes, its hackathon organizer. Follow her on Twitter @etaooo. For anyone who enjoys (or has a knack for) planning, organizing a hackathon is not terribly difficult: it’s a matter of understanding your goals, assessing needs, and figuring out how to bridge the two. Naturally, this...
An automated Facebook spam filter gone slightly awry, not purposeful censorship, is to blame for startup enthusiast Robert Scoble and some other commenters getting blocked, according to a company spokesperson. Users attempting to comment on blog posts have recently been prevented from doing so, with warning text from the company saying that “this comment...
As we put more of our private information online and entrust it to web services, privacy breaches become almost inevitable. One major problem with online privacy is that there is really no enforceable chain of confidentiality. So when a third-party service makes your information available to another party, things can get complicated. A new...
People make mistakes. We make bad choices, flawed decisions, say or do things we wish could be called back, take calculated moves based on the wrong data. Some face another test: how to handle the fallout. They probably shouldn’t use Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson as a template. Thompson could have ‘fessed up when his...
Warren Buffett just gave his opinion on one of the hottest tech stocks of the decade—Apple—at Berkshire Hathaway’s shareholders meeting. Responding to a question about both Apple and Google, the Oracle of Omaha had this to say, according to Reuters: “I would not be at all surprised to see them be worth a lot...