We have an exclusive here folks. Dave Sifry gave me a demo of a few Technorati products that are going to ship in the next few weeks. Like WTF (Where’s the Fire) they’re planning on using three or four letter acronyms moving forward. Here’s a brief overview of what they’re up to: TTYL Tantek’s Terrific [...]
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Why is it that Technorati has bugs which have been known for years yet they never seem to get around to fixing them? It’s the only search engine I know that’s nondeterministic. How’d they pull that off? Search one minute and you’ll get “no results” but search 30 seconds later and you get 150 results. [...]
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There are only five tickets left for Widgets Live. I got in right under the radar.
Categories: microsoft,startups,technology,web2.0
The NYTimes has a great piece on calorie restricted diets and life extension.In a laboratory at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, Matthias is learning about time’s caprice the hard way. At 28, getting on for a rhesus monkey, Matthias is losing his hair, lugging a paunch and getting a face full of wrinkles.Yet in the cage next to his, gleefully hooting at strangers, one of Matthias’s lab mates, Rudy, is the picture of monkey vitality, although he is slightly older.
Categories: startups,technology,web2.0
True Ventures has relaunched their site and I really like it!… I have no idea why but most VC sites that I visit are pretty olde school.They also get content too.
Categories: startups,technology,venture capital
Even companies you think of as having one founder, like Oracle, usually turn out to have more. It seems unlikely this is a coincidence.Have you also noticed how one founder seems to dominate (Steve Jobs vs Woz or Bill Gates to Paul Allen).
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scientists found a massive Tyrannosaurus rex thigh bone in a remote region of Montana a few months ago, they were forced to break the bone in two in order to fit it into the transport helicopter…. This tissue, including blood vessels, bone cells, and perhaps even blood cells, was so well preserved that it was still stretchy and flexible.I totally want one!
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I was at the Revision3 party last night and while watching the cool quicktime intro to all their new media properties saw NotMTV.MTV is going to sue the pants off these guys. Even if they lose the case they can’t have someone out there openly mocking them and claiming that MTV is lame.Don’t spend your VC money on lawsuits guys.
Categories: politics,technology
Looks like we can get Hypoallergenic kittens now:What are claimed to be the world’s first specially bred hypoallergenic cats have gone on sale in the US.US biotech firm Allerca says it has managed to selectively breed them by reducing a certain type of protein that triggers allergic reactions.The company says the animals will not cause the red eyes, sneezing and even asthma triggered by cat allergy, except in the most acute cases.
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