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TechCrunch : Reddit Asks Users For Money To Hire People Because "Revenue Isn't Great"

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:52:09 +0000

They have a choice. They can run adverts like they do: a single box at the side and treat users well, or they can cover the site in adverts (like digg), treat users like shit and make lots of money. they choose to treat users well.

TechCrunch : Reddit Asks Users For Money To Hire People Because "Revenue Isn't Great"

Sat, 10 Jul 2010 12:15:00 +0000

> Reddit is hoping that its users and fans will donate the money needed to hire more people and buy more servers, so they don’t have to revert to other tactics like intrusive and obnoxious advertising. But rather than call it what it is – donations – the company is asking people to subscribe to reddit gold and pay as much as they want for it. reddit would never revert to such adverts.

TechCrunch : Twitter's Lastest Promoted Tweet Directs You To... Facebook

Thu, 8 Jul 2010 19:33:38 +0000

So we can now cite things we've said ourselves as evidence? Evidence to backup my claim: http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/08/twitter-ad-faceb...

TechCrunch : Twitter's Lastest Promoted Tweet Directs You To... Facebook

Thu, 8 Jul 2010 19:23:45 +0000

Jesus Christ Siegler. Facebook and Twitter are not at all competitors, whatever gave you that idea? Has anyone ever said "I am going to use Facebook, not Twitter" or "I am going to Twitter, not Facebook!"? No. Does Arrington have a gun to your head and a demand of 100 articles, regardless of quality?

TechCrunch : Twitter + Vuvuzela. What More Do You Need?

Wed, 7 Jul 2010 20:25:22 +0000

http://www.vuvuzela-time.co.uk/twitter.com/the_vu...

TechCrunch : You're Dead, Unless You Tweet Otherwise

Wed, 7 Jul 2010 10:27:44 +0000

It's September 2010, techcrunch article is posted. "New service for proving you're alive by @robinwauters" is seen via Twitter, the article announces "Deadr" a new service that hooks up to your internal organs and when you're dead it tweets about it has received $10,000,000 series A funding!

TechCrunch : Employees Challenged To Crack Facebook Security, Succeed (Updated)

Tue, 6 Jul 2010 08:54:13 +0000

use a VPN or only use https (ssl)

Secular News Daily : British Medical Association labels gay conversion therapy harmful, discredited

Mon, 5 Jul 2010 13:23:32 +0000

Liar! You're clearly in a different world to "normal" straight people! Silly delusional "gays"!! Also to clarify, this is sarcasm.

TechCrunch : NuCaptcha's Technology Uses Video To Decipher Between Humans And Robots

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:54:09 +0000

Sequel: Please take a photo of the following text "FHMASL" printed in bold Helvetica across your breasts and email it us

TechCrunch : Twitter Slashes API Rate Limits In Half Across The Board To Deal With Capacity Issues

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:01:47 +0000

Which is why if you're going to do it, identify this as a weakness and work out how you'll handle it when it does happen. It's nothing new in business.

TechCrunch : Google Chrome Now Comes With Flash Built In

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:25:02 +0000

"citricsquid" is, online, my "real name". If you took a few minutes to search for my name you'd find it. http://www.google.com/search?q=citricsquid Third down, twitter: "Samuel Ryan" Now search "Samuel Ryan citricsquid" Second down, my personal website. Whois for the website, bingo, now you have my full name and address. So please, if you want to discredit my argument please don't resort to that shit, I don't try and hide online. I assume you won't reply now, nobody does. Enjoy fingering your own ass as you sleep alone tonight.

TechCrunch : Google Chrome Now Comes With Flash Built In

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:18:51 +0000

In my comment I addressed the functionality. As I said, that could be done with an hour in Javascript.

TechCrunch : Google Chrome Now Comes With Flash Built In

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:16:54 +0000

That site is awful to look at and the functionality is piss poor. That could easily be achieved using (X)HTML, CSS and Javascript. The point of Flash is provide what they can't, using it to replace what (X)HTML, CSS and Javascript *can* do is ridiculous. I hope to god you're not working in any professional setting.

TechCrunch : Google Chrome Now Comes With Flash Built In

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:51:53 +0000

... websites should never be made in Flash and rarely are. Your clients not wanting sites built with Flash has no reflection on whether or not Flash is "dying".

TechCrunch : Google Chrome Now Comes With Flash Built In

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:39:26 +0000

BUT WHAT ABOUT HTML5?!!??!?! I SAW A DEMO OF A BALL IN HTML5 HTML5 IS THE FUTURE FLASH IS DEAD I MEAN IPHONE!!!!!

TechCrunch : Scribd's Decision To Dump Flash Pays Off, User Engagement Triples

Sat, 19 Jun 2010 17:23:50 +0000

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> Over the last few months > In early May, Scribd announced its plans to ditch Adobe’s Flash That was just over a month ago. The title is very misleading, dumping Flash didn't cause the larger uptake or that uptake would have been over the last month, not the last 3. 2 of those months were BEFORE they dumped Flash. It might have been a part of it, but there is a clear contradiction there. In fact, the visitors haven't even changed, just the time current visitors remain on the site, that could surely be argued is down to the Facebook integration, why would HTML5 switch change that?

TechCrunch : Facebook: Calacanis Is Lying

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 14:00:21 +0000

It's probably the case that Adium doesn't use the Facebook API and instead actually logs in with your account information.

TechCrunch : Twitter Starts Teaching You How To Tweet With Videos

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 19:44:50 +0000

Sounds like she's deaf and struggles to speak.

TechCrunch : Diaspora's Final Tally: $200,000 From Nearly 6,500 Backers

Wed, 2 Jun 2010 19:03:10 +0000

If diaspora succeeds I will mail Techcrunch a photocopy of my butt.

TechCrunch : Guy Who Copied Digg Slams Digg For Copying Twitter

Sat, 29 May 2010 23:28:55 +0000

Looking over the wikipedia article for Digg, it would appear that at the launch of reddit they were very much in their infancy, they were *literally* an article dump, they didn't even have their now well known in page digg buttons or even categories. Anyway, the point is, even if reddit did see Digg and think "hey that's a good idea let's make our own!": Digg was still in its infancy, it was nowhere near a full product, it was a core idea, an idea that had been used elsewhere before. Imagine if I see techcrunch and think "hey that's an awesome idea, a blog about technology!" and so I create my own. Did I "copy" techcrunch? Yeah, I took their core idea, but I then built my own ideas into it and created my own product. reddit and Digg are very very different now, reddit has a huge focus on community and discussion, digg has a focus on getting the "best" links to the front page and comments are an after thought. I don't know if reddit copied digg, I very much doubt it as digg had very little traffic at launch, but for arguments sake let's say they did, even then it was only an idea, copying an idea and cloning are different, the internet works before of the former and it's only bad when the latter happens.