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The most popular blog posts about tech industry & business on Hacker News. 222 posts.
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Last.fm: "Techcrunch are full of shit"
On Friday night a technology blog called Techcrunch posted a vicious and completely false rumour about us: that Last.fm handed data to the RIAA so they could track who’s been listening to the “leaked” U2 album.
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Introducing the Google Chrome OS
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Jason Fried: Get Satisfaction is "awfully close to blackmail"
Get Satisfaction, a third-party customer service app/community, allows customers to offer feedback, make suggestions, get their questions answered, and generally get help with a product or service. A good idea Building support/community infrastructure is a pain point for a lot of companies. The…
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The bar for success in our industry is too low
This weekend the New York Times published a piece called Using ‘Free’ to Turn a Profit. The piece focused on Evernote, a web-based and smart-phone based application for taking notes, snapping pictures, and storing stuff you want to remember later. The following critique isn’t about Evernote (…
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EtherPad Back Online Until Open Sourced
Real-time collaborative editing where authorship is the default, your server is the only server, and you decide what AI (if any) ever touches your text.
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EtherPad Open Source Release
Real-time collaborative editing where authorship is the default, your server is the only server, and you decide what AI (if any) ever touches your text.
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Google acquires AppJet/Etherpad
Real-time collaborative editing where authorship is the default, your server is the only server, and you decide what AI (if any) ever touches your text.
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“Is PayPal good for your microISV business?” A short PayPal horror story
Dec 18 Update: This morning I was contacted by a PayPal manager from their fraud department who talked with me close to an hour. He went out of his way to apologize for their mishandling of my case. He told me that...
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Tony Hsieh's Email to Employees RE: Zappos' Sale to Amazon
Fast, FREE shipping on just-landed sneakers, boots, heels & more from your favorite brands. Now that's a win.
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The Next Generation Bends Over
Mint’s sale to Intuit really pissed me off. Why should I care? Because I think it’s indicative of a VC-induced cancer that’s infecting our industry and killing off the next generation. I don’t know the full backstory, but I’d bet this sale was encouraged by a Mint i…
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My Hilarious Warner Bros. Royalty Statement
TMJ is/was a punk-pop band of some minor renown. Some of that renown was due to their music, which included semi-hits such as “Crush Story,” “Donna Everywhere,” and “That’s a Lie” — a cover of the LL Cool J tune that featured the man himself in the music video, which actually got played quite a bit during daylight…
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Dr. Eric Schmidt Resigns from Apple’s Board of Directors
The official source for news about Apple, from Apple. Read press releases, get updates, watch video and download images.
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After the Deadline: Acquired
Today I have big news to announce for After the Deadline. But first, I have to tell you a story. I left the Air Force in March 2008 to pursue my dream of launching a startup and to finish graduate…
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Google acquires reCAPTCHA
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Alexis and Steve are leaving Reddit
Get the latest product news, company announcements, and user insights from the official Reddit blog.
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Google Maps India learns to navigate like a local
Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture
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Opera Unite reinvents the Web: a Web server on the Web browser
Keep up on what's happening at Opera by following our latest public announcements.
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