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The Guardian's headline is very misleading. Google's mission statement is not "don't be evil" - it's "to organise the world’s information and make it universally accessible and use…

I read the headline as "Parents are eating the world and hurting innovation."

A "full investigation" is the law in California when sexual harassment claims are made. It's not an admission of anything, it's just literally the law.

Film editors will gobble these up.

There are tons of software companies run by sales people...they just all fail.

Anyone who thinks they should get a salary like that when you've only raised $250k should not be your CEO. Run away quickly. Don't even try to negotiate him down.

Los Angeles, CA NationBuilder is hiring developers and a designer. We build tools for leaders, mostly focused on politics right now. We're backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Sean Parke…

Los Angeles, CA NationBuilder is hiring developers and organizers. We build tools for leaders, mostly focused on politics right now. We're backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Sean Parke…

His point that Zappos isn't a technology company, but rather a customer service company makes Las Vegas the perfect fit. Las Vegas is the #1 city in the world for service industrie…

The main thing for me was being able to pursue an idea no one would fund. I could self-fund it to the point where it was obvious people wanted it, at which point fundraising is eas…

One thing to know that is somewhat unique to bone marrow transplants, is that you need a lot of people registered in order to find anyone who will match. It's not like you can go p…

Except they aren't called sites and groups any more. You're really underestimating how important labeling is. EDIT: Lots of people want sites, lots of people want private groups, b…

If a computer had written this article, maybe it would have mentioned how useful this technology is for spammers.

How is Amazon not a platform? Completely leaving aside AWS (which the author does mention): a. it has zillions of stores selling through it b. a whole generation of small businesse…

Ah, so this is why it takes LinkedIn forever to add new features.

Jumo is a non-profit, not a startup. Using the language "acquired" and "exit" doesn't make any sense.

I wonder if there is a way to calculate the total cost of lost developer productivity due to Facebook bugs, changes, and bad documentation. I swear I spend way too much of my time …

The Constitution is not about direct democracy at all, it's setting up a parliamentary republic. And the drafting of it involved a lot of online feedback and participation, but was…

That is what he normally does. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/us/13records.html

He posted on his blog yesterday that there would be a "major announcement" on blog.demandprogress.org today, but nothing has been posted. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/updates

Path is also doing really poorly. Another site based on sharing information privately with a smaller group of people. Has anyone shown traction with a product that is explicitly an…

Why would you write a contract in October of 2009 to expire on July 2nd? Such an odd date.