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Komsomolsk-on-Amur is a tiny city on the East side of Russia. Local ISP is most likely a very small company and the local judge was on a power trip.
on YouTube blocked by Russian court over video

“The Big Short” by Michael Lewis is actually a required summer reading for many Finance/MBA students.
on Summer reading (and year-round blogs)

Few months ago there was an interview with the owner of Kongregate on reddit.com. He mentioned that the website breaks even. Hopefully Kongregate will show positive cash flow in the near future.
on GameStop acquires social gamers Kongregate

Although IGN is visited by 12.7 million people per month, I'd be interested in more detailed analysis of web-site visitors. My guess is, a significant 12.7MM people are average users who want to read review/watch trailer and that's about it.
on IGN launches social network for gamers

In my opinion Yelp made a right choice. The service is getting more and more popular (check Google Trends), and there are no signs of slow down.
on Yelp turns down Google's $550 million offer

It seems that Eventbrite is a nice hybrid of Ticketmaster and Evite. Latter has definitely missed a great niche (management is probably kicking itself for missed opportunity). Also, although Eventbrite caters semi-professional events, the service is free for free events. Again, poor Evite has lost some of its customers because of the free feature.
on Kevin Hartz's Eventbrite democratizes events

"Civilization will soon be coming to Facebook." new era of online gaming? Games come to users (through social website)
on EA acquires Playfish for at least $275M

I am sure double-digit unemployment is one of direct/indirect reasons for high sport ratings as well.
on Sports ratings records...

Bambi, Is this going to be an annual event?
on Vator and TheFunded to host Juice Pitcher

First of all, how positive is facebook's "cash flow"? "This is important to us because it sets Facebook up to be a strong independent service for the long term," said someone who received $200MM few months ago from foreign investor.
on Facebook is cash-flow positive

I asked one of my professors, PhD from Harvard, about solid record of Harvard's endowment. He said the university hires best money managers and offers great performance rewards. I am surprised those managers didn't hedge their bets.
on Harvard, Yale endowments nose dive

I like Bing a lot, but they need to work on UI: sponsored sites take too much space, 3 columns look unappealing to me, and all links have same color style that takes attention off of results.
on Bing grows and grows, Google is unaffected

"The managers are pegging the problem on private equity and hedge fund investments." lol. They had 1000s of investments to choose from; they risked and picked wrong ones. It was managers' fault and not PE/HF.
on Harvard, Yale endowments nose dive

Going online is by far the cheapest, most convenient, and most entertaining way of spending time for your average American. Unfortunately, no one reads books these days. TVs get boring after a while, and going out is out of question.
on Americans going online to forget the economy

Curved waist makes complete sense! I just realized that all of my belts are curved just as Andy mentioned. I really like classic, yet original style. Plus, there is nothing to lose with amazing return policy (free shipping both ways). Also props for having discounts for public servants. I'd love to try one of their pants, but I am afraid my thighs might be too big.
on Bonobos seeks to be the Zappos of pants

Let's not forget that internet mobile is still very expensive toy to play with and not everyone can afford it. Personally, I cannot imagine my life w/o mobile internet and I've had iPhone for only a year.
on US mobile Internet usage to near 50% in 2013

Is Yahoo serious? I think the executives should concentrate on the US market: over past 3 months Microsoft shares rose by 23%, Google by 15%, and Yahoo... 0%.
on Yahoo acquires Arab online portal, Maktoob

10% of twitters twit 90% of twits (hopefully that made sense), also a lot of people use twitter just to follow their favorite celebrities. Also, I think there is a good chance that sooner or later twitter will slowly transform itself into simple mix of myspace and facebook. Either way it'll be interesting to observe competition between twitter and facebook.
on Say hello to the new kings of social media

Have you seen Bill Maher's video about Barack Obama being a celebrity? <a target='_blank' href=' http://www.hiptics.com/2009/06/14/bill-maher-rips-obama-for-loving-celebrity-status-video/ '>["http://www.hipt...</a> As one of myspace comments said: "how did i become friends with the white house? not cool- stop trying to make friends and instead work on leading a country!!!!!!!!"
on The White House welcomes social media

Myspace lost its momentum. A lot of my college friends closed/abandoned their myspace accounts. Facebook attracts more educated and mature crowd; the owners of myspace need to come up with good incentives to get that crowd back to myspace.
on MySpace 'Peanut Butter' manifesto

Don't forget about Linkedin (http://alexa.com/siteinfo/linkedin.com) In less than a year its ranked jumped from 225-275 to 60-80.
on Recession sending droves of Americans online

Chrome will easily beat Safari in the next year. I cannot wait for stable OS X version, but there is a lot to do for Google. I was designing a website and I noticed Chrome (Win) does not like large fonts: AA is messed up once font-size > 30px. I was not impressed with the latest Safari release, but unfortunately, only Safari supports bookmarks sync with iPhone. Apple is too greedy to let other browser sync bookmarks with iPhone.
on Does anyone use Chrome?

While I agree with this article, I think brands need to use already established platforms (facebook, myspace). I'd rather have all my favorite brands in one place, than register on 4-5 different websites. And by using I mean constant engagement with fans on a personal level. Unfortunately, Facebook does not have fully developed "Fans &lt;-> Pages" system (ie no notifications, easy to use discussion boards, voting polls, etc.)
on Brands need fans, not friends

I remember good old days when I could facebook random person from MAT21A and ask for hw because I wasn't in class. That was back when facebook was limited to college students only.
on Facebook gets serious about sharing

Do you think YouTube will double its length limit in near future?
on YouTube doubles upload limit to 2GB

Basically, if the customer does not have a credit card and looses the phone, he/she has to deal with more problems?
on Bling Nation goes "bling-bling" with $8 mln

Over the past 6 months Yahoo! shares went up by 30%. I guess the market approves current strategy.
on Yahoo shutters video ad network service

When will Apple allow iPhone to run videos in Safari w/o going to YouTube application?
on iPhone fuels soaring YouTube mobile uploads

Live discussion is one of the reasons why justin.tv is so popular, especially during sporting events. I think hulu.com should look into integrating that Stream Box
on Facebook Live Stream Box may one-up Twitter

"Siri for the nearest gas station and drugstore. Siri worked fine." I'm sold. Maps/Yelp are great apps, but not useful when I am driving and something comes up.
on Why Siri - a virtual assistant - is possible