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Any ideas on how this model compares to HipHop (Facebook's PHP-to-C system)?

Aaron... Aaron... Aaron! GET OVER IT! House System, was, at best, about 10% as influential in the creation of Facebook as was Friendster. You take every opportunity to hate on Mark…

"I moved my primary residence from Silicon Valley to Seattle" Hmm, that's very specific wording there. In my world, filled with tax advisors and lawyers, this translates to "I'm tr…

"I want to be clear here that the blame, to the degree that there was, is largely in the United States, not in Europe, not in Britain," Schmidt said. ... Right. I would be more con…

Umm, why do you feel a need to downvote and reply to every criticism of this company? Just because something is making money doesn't mean it is making enough money to be worth keep…

This was a competitive VC deal? Halsey Minor has been trying to get someone to take OpenDNS off his hands for quite some time now; he needs the money. Don't believe everything you …

The previous era's coke and hookers were far more exciting. (If you think I am joking, please see: Pseudo.com)

I was going to flag this, as it seemed a bit sensational, however I now understand what they are talking about. Google (and Microsoft) are huge fans of temp workers; I could totall…

If this were Digg, this would be the point at which someone would insert an ASCII representation of Admiral Ackbar saying "IT'S A TRAP!"

People need to stop taking TechCrunch seriously. Michael Arrington is fed by venture capital firms and their portfolio companies, and has far too many conflicts of interest to be c…

Here is a man who understands how to live.

In our industry, it tends to be that your first, and most important customer, is yourself. A lot of the greatest companies started by fulfilling a personal need; conveniently enoug…

Great people are always competing with themselves (see, for example, great athletes). Of course, that requires notions/delusions of greatness, but that's another topic!

Too many entrepreneurs waste time observing/analyzing the actions of others. In boom times, this creates me-too companies; in bust times, this creates ridiculous hysteria (such as …