Author: Toni Schneider
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Robert Scoble shows how various services are causing online conversations to become more real-time and less permanent.
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Thank you firefighters
My sister lives in Santa Barbara. Last Thursday evening around 6pm she and her husband got a phone call telling them that they had 15 minutes to evacuate their house. A dangerous fire had flared up less than a mile away. They grabbed what they could, put the kids in the car, and took off…
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Union Street
I was walking down Union Street yesterday and noticed a bunch of shuttered stores and a bunch of newly opened ones too. There seems to be constant store and restaurant turnover on that street. Makes me wonder what has a higher failure rate: Silicon Valley startups or San Francisco retail stores?
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Welcome PollDaddy
Polls like the one to the right are now a built-in part of WordPress.com, thanks to Automattic’s acquisition of leading poll and survey platform PollDaddy! Congratulations to the PollDaddy team of Lenny, Eoin, and Jonathan, who have built a great company with lots of users (including many WordPress bloggers) and partners, and they did it…
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Business Week
Matt’s one of the 25 most influential people on the web according to Business Week! Congrats to everyone on the list, including web 2.0 movers and shakers like Gabe, Jeff, Loic, Kevin, and Evan.
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700b
I’ve been trying to put the $700 billion Wall Street bailout number in some kind of context. From the wikipedia: The Dot-com bubble crash wiped out $5 trillion in market value of technology companies from March 2000 to October 2002 Sure glad we got that .com government bailout back in 2001 🙂
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Automattic acquires IntenseDebate
Boulder based IntenseDebate is joining team Automattic! Check out their blog for the news. Congratulations to their team and welcome to Automattic. Comments are one of the key features of blogs. Over the past year, several startups (including IntenseDebate, Disqus, SezWho, and JS-Kit) have launched improved commenting systems for blogs (and beyond) and have shown…