While I can’t quite imagine what a “snug nugget” really is without descending into the scatological, but what the company does is quite interesting. This new website offers bundles of books with a retail value of about $30. They expect users to pay about that and they donate 14.3% to charity. The current crop...
In the final discussion of our Facebook ecosystem CrunchUp today, AKQA Chairman Tom Bedecarre and Facebook VP Greg Badros took the stage to address Facebook’s advertising strategy. Bedecarré wasn’t as skeptical as his new boss Martin Sorrell (whose advertising conglomerate WPP just announced that it’s acquiring agency AKQA, and who has said that Facebook is...
Users are complaining that Twoo, a social networking service, is sending unwanted messages to their contacts. Co-founder and CEO Lorenz Bogaert counters that this is a misunderstanding and the company is working to fix it. Users, both those who have emailed me and who have posted public reviews in the app store, say that the...
Microsoft has posted its promised follow-up post to its previous short note on why its Azure cloud computing service went down for over two hours last week in Western Europe. Previously, the company placed the blame on a “misconfigured network device” that disrupted traffic inside of Azure. In its new entry, Microsoft broke down what...
App.net Dalton Caldwell The San Francisco developer who caused a stir by proposing an alternative to Twitter has released an alpha version of his own social service. After blasting Twitter on his blog, Dalton Caldwell started work on a competitor that would never take ads and would always love app developers. Two days ago,...
Chances are that you’ve seen the blog post from App.net’s Dalton Caldwell wherein he says that Facebook had taken a push-to-shove method concerning an app that Caldwell and his team were making. In the post, Caldwell directly addresses Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg: “The meeting took an odd turn when the individuals in the room explained...
OpenDNS is on the verge of crossing over 100 employees. It’s growing is so fast that by the end of 2012, half of the company will have been there for less than a year. But as founder and CEO David Ulevitch discovered, not every employee is suited for the next stage of the company....
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Email More Hedge fund manager James Altucher recently wrote about how multitasking can kill you. Neuroscience shows that our brains simply weren’t created for it. Yet many people continue to live hyper-connected lives, essentially creating 24/7 workweeks — no matter how unhealthy it is. This excellent infographic by OnlineUniversities.com shows how acutely information overload...
Mountain Lion’s changes appear to have neutered a few features in CandyBar, a longtime friend of those who like to customize the Dock and System Icons, among other things. This Mac app made customizing your Mac’s look easy within OS X’s already stringent rules on customizations, but as the Mac becomes more like iOS,...
The courtroom drama surrounding the Apple-Samsung trial going on right now has resulted in a lot of legal theatrics and offered an interesting view into Apple’s product development of the original iPhone and iPad. Not much that has been said on the witness stand by Apple employees called to testify has been particularly revealing...