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Keeping your mouth shut

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Fred Wilson:

The Yahoo! board went out and got Marissa to join the company. And they kept their mouths shut in the process and the news surprised everyone. That’s how you run a company, a board, and a process. Well done.

Agreed, Yahoo did a good job with that one. Now let’s see what Marissa can do.

Good answer

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Well, the kid didn’t pass the test, but he got an A+ for creativity.

Muxi: A professional social network

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Composed of 40 fraternities, Muxi offers its users a platform where they can share their experience, ask questions, find colleagues and more generally connect with people doing the same job.

Not the first professional social network, but they seem to be incorporating some of the things that have worked in other networks. It’ll be interesting to watch.

Amplified 15: Grab a Hoagie

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Dan and Jim talk about Apple’s departure and quick return to EPEAT certification, the Tweetbot for Mac alpha release, Android vs. iOS market share, business models for blogs, and much more!

Sponsored by Freshbooks, Hover (use coupon DANSENTME for 10% off), and Squarespace (use coupon DANSENTME7 for 10% off).

RIM hit with $147.2 million verdict

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A northern California jury directed Research in Motion Ltd to pay $147.2 million in patent litigation over a remote management system for wireless devices, according to an attorney for the plaintiff, Mformation Technologies Inc.

Just what they needed.

Meshin Recall

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Time to be a meeting rockstar! Meshin Recall’s calendar for Evernote helps you prepare, organize and succeed!

Meshin Recall unifies all your calendars in one place. You can easily create or link Evernote entries (text, audio or photos) with specific meetings, share notes with fellow meeting attendees and use tags to categorize and search your entries.

Meshin Recall is available for both iOS and Android. Stay tuned for more exciting apps from Meshin, a PARC company.

Betaworks buys Digg for $500K

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Digg, the once-powerful social news site, was sold today for $500K – a pittance compared to some other recent social network transactions.

Americans don’t trust TV news

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Americans’ confidence in television news is at a new low by one percentage point, with 21% of adults expressing a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in it. This marks a decline from 27% last year and from 46% when Gallup started tracking confidence in television news in 1993.

Can’t say I blame them.

30 Tweets from 2006

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Some funny stuff like:

  • Is wondering what an iPhone is
  • Returning movies to Blockbuster
  • Wondering how “Barack Hussein Obama” could ever hope to be president
  • Working on my myspace profile

Brilliant commercial

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It would have been better if it was a Heineken commercial, but there’s no denying the brilliance of this one. […]

Credibility

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Anthony Kay:

As an independent writer or blogger, credibility and trust are everything. Without these, you have nothing.

I couldn’t agree more. Anthony has a fascinating story of how some blogs lost credibility for him because of recommendations they made.

Meshin Recall [Sponsor]

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Time to be a meeting rockstar! Meshin Recall’s calendar for Evernote helps you prepare, organize and succeed!

Meshin Recall unifies all your calendars in one place. You can easily create or link Evernote entries (text, audio or photos) with specific meetings, share notes with fellow meeting attendees and use tags to categorize and search your entries.

Meshin Recall is available for both iOS and Android. Stay tuned for more exciting apps from Meshin, a PARC company.

New Dropbox Pro plans

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Dropbox Blog:

As people add more stuff to Dropbox, we want to make sure they don’t have to worry about space.Today we’re happy to announce that our upgrades are getting a huge upgrade! Dropbox Pro now comes in flavors of 100 and 200 GB, but at the price of the original 50 and 100 GB plans. For those of you who need even more space, a brand new 500 GB plan is also joining the posse! If you’re already a Dropbox Pro subscriber, just take a seat and enjoy the fireworks — your Dropbox will supersize itself automatically tonight.

Welcome news for those heavy Dropbox users.

RIM selling its corporate jet

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Research In Motion Ltd. (RIMM), which has lost 95 percent of its market value since 2008, is selling one of its two business jets under a plan to save $1 billion in operating costs, two people with knowledge of the matter said.

Wait a minute. You’re telling me that while thousands of employees lost their jobs, market share tanked and the stock price plummeted, executives kept a corporate jet? Yep, everything is just fine at RIM.

Ballmer is off his meds again

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“But we are not going to let any piece of this [go uncontested to Apple],” shouted Ballmer. “Not the consumer cloud. Not hardware software innovation. We are not leaving any of that to Apple by itself. Not going to happen. Not on our watch.”

But that already happened on your watch.