Longest Tweet Ever (247 chars) Sucks Up to Boss Steve Forbes
valleywag.gawker.com — Exploiting a loophole in Twitter's gateway for external software, a Forbes reporter posted what the magazine claims is the longest tweet ever. What did fearless Taylor Buley do with all 247 characters? Buttered up publisher Steve Forbes, of course. (Submitted by thegamingguy) More...
Facebook Backer Wishes Women Couldn't Vote
valleywag.gawker.com — Peter Thiel, foremost among Silicon Valley's loopy libertarians and the first outside investor in Facebook, has written an essay declaring that the country went to hell as soon as women won the right to vote. (Submitted by blakeley) More...
The Billion-Dollar Blackhole of Social Media
valleywag.gawker.com — Will anyone miss GeoCities, the antiquated homepage service Yahoo bought for $3.5 billion in 1999, and then left to rot? Venture capitalist Fred Wilson will — he hasn't seen that kind of payday in ages. (Submitted by jaybol) More...
Bill Clinton Wants His Domain Names Back
valleywag.gawker.com — In the late '90s, private investigator Joe Culligan registered presidentbillclinton.com and other Clintonesque domain names as a joke. Now Bill Clinton's lawyer is pursuing legal action to get the website addresses. It's payback, says Culligan. (Submitted by tbhurst) More...
Mark Zuckerberg's Status Update: Paranoid as Hell
valleywag.gawker.com — Is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg hunting leakers? His internal memo about CFO Gideon Yu's departure got forwarded to bloggers. Perhaps he was hoping that would happen in attempt to figure out the leakers in his midst. (Submitted by anderzole) More...
Tesla Praises Leaked Car Photos It Wants Erased
valleywag.gawker.com — Is Tesla Motors mad that Digg founder Kevin Rose spoiled the launch of its Model S sedan by leaking photos on Flickr? Yes and no, depending on who you ask at the ailing electric-car startup. Rose has deleted the pictures after someone at Tesla requested that he take them down. (Submitted by Surferess) More...
Why Amazon.com Should Buy Digg
valleywag.gawker.com — Sure, start scoffing. But Digg's past acquisition talks with Current and News Corp. failed in part because they looked at Digg as a media play, and community-generated sites like Digg aren't particularly attractive to advertisers. The lesson: Digg's not a media company, and not a technology company. It's something else altogether. (Submitted by tbhurst) More...
Is the Los Angeles Times Cribbing from Wikipedia?
valleywag.gawker.com — Whether they admit it or not, Wikipedia is every reporter's crutch for finding mundane details on deadline. Most know to cover up their laziness. But not this Los Angeles Times foreign correspondent. (Submitted by LtGenPanda) More...
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