Online retailer Zappos — the company hailed for its inventive use of Twitter as part of its business model — appears to have laid off some employees today. The news, ironically enough, is spreading through Zappos’ official employee Twitter page, as its employees leave messages discussing the apparent cutbacks. “Sorry to everyone who got laid off,” one worker writes. “All my Zappos friends who got bad news today, keep your head up. Bigger and better things await you,” says another. “Much love to all my friends…you’re still family no matter where you end up! Keep your heads up!” a third...
What does $240 million get you these days? That's what Microsoft invested in Facebook, but the software giant hasn't gotten much love in return. On election night, whose online maps did Facebook use? Google's. Which goes to show you that money can't buy you love. Literally — I suspect that's what motivated this slap in the face, inadvertent or not, to Facebook's investor. Dave Morin, Facebook's senior platform egotist, is dating Google Maps marketer Brittany Bohnet, who's been working on the search engine's voting-data projects....
Photo by Jen Carlson. John McCain is really pulling all the stops as Election Day draws nigh. With Obama (and even Ralph Nader) getting so much love from street artists over the past year, someone finally threw the republicans some wheatpaste. The above was seen in DUMBO this morning, just look at that lil' guy dance!...
Yesterday, as Web 2.0's bubble burst in slow motion at 30,000 feet over downtown San Francisco, I received a preview copy of Reality Check, by Guy Kawasaki. Someone had stuck a Post-it on the cover: "See inside for foreword by The Fake Steve Jobs!" Awesome. I'm never going to read Kawasaki's book, even though he's way more successful than I'll ever be. I skipped to Dan Lyons's foreword, written in his Fake Steve persona. Here's the best parts: So what is Guy's new book about? To be honest, I have no idea. I didn't read it. I didn't even pretend...
Let's keep this nerdfight short and sweet — no, make that bitter: New York-based blogger/consultant Allen Stern thinks New York-based videogame designer Charles Forman is jejune and uninteresting. Forman thinks Stern is fat. In a predictably deleted comment on Silicon Alley Insider, Forman rails at Stern for complaining about his frequent appearances at the New York Tech Meetup. Here's Forman's counterpoint: Charles Forman (URL) said:Oct. 13, 5:59 PM I don't like my name being dropped this many times without a picture of my pretty face attached. Ah yes. The alley insider is up to rousing rabble for page views from...
Filed under: Handsets, Others, Linux, Symbian, Windows MobileHTC might be setting the pace for Windows Mobile development right now, but it better watch its back -- especially on the low end of the range. China's ZTE, which has somehow silently risen through the ranks to become the world's number six phone manufacturer by volume, is said to be prepping a renewed global assault that will see it move beyond its typical role as a provider of low-end dumbphone fare to occupy the low-end smartphone niche, a market with traditionally limited choice. Windows Mobile and Linux are apparently both high on...
Filed under: Handhelds Before you get too riled up here, let us point out that this Atom-based OQO is simply a prototype. According to the company's Dennis Moore, the device we're seeing here "is not a product launch or announcement," but simply a demonstration of just how amazing and utterly life-changing the OQO + Atom combo is. Really guys, if there's so much love in the house, why not get this thing on the production line?[Via jkkmobile]Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments...
