Monthly archive February, 2011

The surprise at Wednesday's Apple announcement might be how quick the iPad 2 is in your hot little hands. AppleInsider says it has "reason to believe" there will be a large-scale product rollout this week. (VentureBeat remains skeptical.) Not Read More →

Flash: It snowed! In lesser news over the weekend: • Gmail had problems. An estimated 120,000 users of Google's e-mail service had trouble getting into their accounts and/or found that mail was missing. Google promised speedy action. • Like Read More →

"AngelList accelerates herd mentality, and the emphasis on social proof can perhaps crowd out/overwhelm other useful signals. ... (For a few) investors, AngelList is kind of like Crack for Nerds. ... Actually that's not it; it's more like Sex for Read More →

We say goodbye to Oscar hoopla with three movie-related links: most of this year's nominated screenplays; a list of upcoming movies from popular books; and the YouTube trailer for the live-action but fake but still amusing movie Read More →

Here's a roundup of reactions, questions and comments related to Google's announcement Thursday that it changed its search algorithm to weed out certain content, a move that it says will affect about 12 percent of the Read More →

News related to censorship issues, real or imagined: • PayPal has restored service to Courage to Resist, a group that supports "the troops who refuse to fight," after the group publicly lashed out at the San Jose company Thursday, Read More →