DISQUS

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JuMpInG uP aNd DoWn - we're still here! :)
Actually haven't heard of a lot of those companies but would love to have someone try to aggregate some data into a report. Might even pay for that data.....

Print has so many limitations (delivery, size/length, page layout), so many things that are not constricted by web, I'm surprised that more aren't embracing in their cost cutting efforts. A local paper by us just started publishing a "morning edition" that they publish just prior to actual delivery to make sure they get the latest news. Better step, but usually the news is still a day behind and I've already read it online.

What I don't get online though are the big, in depth, investigative pieces. The ones that take months to research and write and are vitally important to the news cycle.

The community is kind of nazi-like about postings, so i'm surprised that, if #'s are true, so many escort ads fronting as prostitution actually make it through?

or the worst of the worst on today's shows... Grey's Anatomy

Those actors have to read their lines and then think "Do I REALLY have to talk like that? who talks like that?"

Good article Anna!

My gripe is that NYC keeps stealing all our cool women tech peeps (from silicon valley) like Natali! :)

some of those are downright hideous!

What I notice:
1) no women on the panel
2) alcohol on the table

:)

looks like the child's section of IKEA

I make my living off of MSFT products and use them extensively (.NET development). I am not afraid to be the first to criticize nor the first to praise even if it's not cool among my techie friends to defend them.

Microsoft needs to get it together. It needs to understand what it wants to be. It's like it's having a midlife crisis trying ot figure out what's next or "is this my life?" I think it needs some new meat gunning the ship, one who gets the web and where things are moving. They keep changing their name, putting out shoddy products that push even loyal users slowly away, and are all over the map. They have divisions that overlap work and don't even talk to each other. Way too many meetings, way too little QA, way too little user acceptance. Just b/c they put out some funny commericals on Vista doesn't mean that Vista doesn't give me all sorts of headaches.

Capturing yahoo is either going to make both of them irrelevant eventually by mucking it up, or if they could figure out how to use the best from both, get a consistent name branding thing going on, fix the flaws, then they can win.

So Twitter is like the water cooler of the world!

dag.... that is tragic. It's so easy when you get in a hole to think you'll never see the sun again. People feeling connected 24/7 but lonelier too, and the holiday season sometimes exacerbates it :(

All the more reason you should use StoryOfMyLife.com to leave your REAL story ...... :)

Update: they took the video down, and have now put an updated apology on the site.

I'm with Jeff!!

Congrats & good luck. You already do a good job of being inclusive, and trust me, this goes a long way building good will, which eventually turns into loyalty. Building community takes work and sometimes your'e the only one putting in effort it seems, and sometimes the only glue keeping it all together. But eventually the ties bind....

PS that image was on a "team building" seminar workshop (I was forced to) attend... lol

It IS butt ugly. Just saw one on a plane for the first time up close. It reminds me of this weird little gadget my dad had that was supposed to teach me multiplication (he got it from the gov't). And that was in the late 70's.

copulating with their iphone/ipods? um, yuck, it's too early in the morning for that image to be floating in my head all day

We're on a same wavelength today MI..... that panel made me tear up, I'm not afraid to admit it :)

Seems a little expensive though..... (even if "award winning chefs"). Any diet-friendly menus?

Mathew, sarcastic?? Never......

Jason's comments are not atypical of the valley myopia on this subject that frustrate me b/c I used to deal with start-ups day in and day out, although now I'm somewhat removed but I still maintain professional contacts and check in with them.

>1% of all companies who seek money get it. That's not even ALL start-ups; just the ones seeking money. I don't understand why people look at funded start-ups as any bell-weathers for what the entire start-up community is doing. Most companies get funded b/c they have good contacts, a leader who's been there before (prior success) or has another personal connection. VERY few companies walk in off the street and ever get funded.

Yet if you talk to all the hopefuls at all the various silicon valley events, you'd think that's the only way any company ever makes it is by getting VC funds. Most companies don't. And most start-ups eventually fail. I guess it's the dream that's sold that keeps them coming back and trying. But I wish language like this was tempered down b/c you're right Fred, the ones who are funded right now, again less than 1% of all companies who sought funding overall, aren't the ones who need to worry. It's everyone else.

I've always said thank god for technology and innovation - without it, where would the US be right now?

I hope all search doesn't just stay in PPC and crappy banners. I'd like to see a lot more targeted search, and better options for ads etc.

I think there a lot of opportunity out there yet to be discovered. Haven't seen anything too new or exciting in a few years now. One ad sequence I saw was pretty brilliant, for that serial killer-does-good tv show but other than that -all ads are still pretty damned boring.

Oh no you didn't post that about Gasse...... love the French :)

since it's letterman, everyone knows who he is and where he belongs. Someone uknown or a new show they'd probabaly want their branding all over it. Probably the most press letterman has had in a while :)

I saw that - that was a good one. It's one of the problems we're trying to provide a solution for. There was a story on MSN not too long ago about a gentleman whose father passed away suddenly; he had an online business, and the son was trying to get into his computer to access all his files to fulfill orders, get the financials in order etc. He spent six months calling various service providers to explain the situation and try to unlock passwords and let those customers know, answer emails, etc -- it was a nightmare, and this will happen more as everyone moves online.