Lightning | 12 years ago | on: Yahoo brings back the Toolbar
Yahoo [inexplicably tries to] bring back the toolbar
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Lightning | 12 years ago | on: Yahoo Gets A New Logo
Actually, a new one every day for a month: http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/57582020969/kicking-off-30-days...
Lightning | 12 years ago | on: Heartbroken Microsoft Employee on Xbox One Policy Changes
May be the same person that wrote this, or maybe not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5876761
Lightning | 12 years ago | on: Find password for any GMail Account
There's an NSA joke in here somewhere.
Lightning | 13 years ago | on: Why practice makes perfect: How to rewire your brain for better performance
Lightning | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: Birtchex - A New Bitcoin Exchange
Are you planning on adding PayPal integration?
Lightning | 13 years ago | on: Skype with care – Microsoft is reading everything you write
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5704574
Also, no it isn't: http://www.zdnet.com/is-microsoft-reading-your-skype-instant...
Lightning | 13 years ago | on: Box Acquires Crocodoc
Lightning | 13 years ago | on: MG Siegler Leaves CrunchFund for Google Ventures
Lightning | 13 years ago | on: On To Google Ventures
"As for my writing… I wouldn’t expect much to change. I’ll still be writing columns for TechCrunch and I’ll still be writing here and elsewhere as time permits.
Obviously, there will be some knowledge that I become privy to that I won’t be able to share — but that’s not any different than it has been with many of the startups I’ve worked with over the past 19 months. The difference now is that some of that knowledge will be about one of the most successul startups of all time: Google.
Yes, they’re letting an Apple fanatic into the building — wild, I know. But as I said, I left the reporting path long ago. I’m on a new path now. Don’t worry, I’m bringing my iPhone with me."
Lightning | 13 years ago | on: Why do so many people dislike TechCrunch?
Probably because they write sensationalist headlines and often spread rumors just for pageviews.
Lightning | 13 years ago | on: Wikipedia is now drawing facts from the Wikidata repository
Lightning | 13 years ago | on: My two-week review of Google Glass
Nah, Google+ links can be very irregular.
Lightning | 13 years ago | on: My two-week review of Google Glass
Lightning | 13 years ago | on: Top Windows laptops on the market based on big-data frustration analytics
Those prices beside the products say it all.
Lightning | 13 years ago | on: Hackathons are like gyms
Lightning | 13 years ago | on: Linode hacked, customer database taken
Lightning | 13 years ago | on: Wait, men fake orgasms?
Yes, as you consider it interesting and I do too. "What to Submit - On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Lightning | 13 years ago | on: DDoS cripples Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox after trading resumes
The site is already back. This story is from last night.
Lightning | 13 years ago | on: Amazon Coins Launching
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