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Cool or Lame? Dude Proposes on iPad, She Says Yes

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TechCrunch reports today that Zach Iniguez proposed to his fiancee on an iPad.   He handed her the device and it played back photos of them together, etc.  I’ll withhold judgment.  What do you think?

AOL Lost $1.4M/day in Value on Bebo Acquisition

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AOL bought Bebo- the British version off Facebook - about 20 months ago.  The couple that built it got $500M.
Let’s do the math.  That was 20 months ago, which works out to about $43M a month in loss.  That is about $1.4 million a day.
Let me repeat this.  AOL lost $1.4M a day [...]

Health Care Reform Is All About Dominion

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As the health care reform saga continues, your government has just announced that the current bill will reduce the deficit by $100B.  Some opponents of the bill think it’s not strong enough (a.k.a. a strong public option).  Others think it’s socialist.  Still others just want to oppose everything the president does (we really [...]

Smart Phones Don’t Have Number-Letter Combos, Dummy

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Has anyone noticed that phone numbers that use letters are unusable by modern cell phones?  How can you call 1-800-GOT-JUNK from your cell phone?  You can’t.

I got a mailer from a wonderful company for a great offer, and I literally could not call them because they failed to translate their fancy letter-number combo [...]

How PSECU (The Pennsylvania State Employee’s Credit Union) Swindled Me

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Like many Americans, I spend too much.  I got an offer in the mail from PSECU offering a low interest consolidation Visa.  I took the offer and paid off my American Express card.  My plan was to pay down the loan over 12 months.  The problem is, if you use the credit card, [...]

A Game of Tennis Has 20 Possible States, 3 Are Redundant

A game of tennis has 20 possible states, but only needs 17. 3 are redundant and removing them doesn’t change the game in any way.

Google Is Creeping Toward Evil

With Droid, Google has locked you into using them as your search engine, and they just bought a mobile advertising giant.

Hundreds of Doughy White People Protest Slender Black President Vaguely

It’s funny how the health care reform debate is turning out.  On the left you hear, “health care costs are breaking families,” and “it’s immoral to let Americans choose health or money,” or something along these two lines.  On the right you hear “there’s nothing wrong with health care,” and “only lazy people don’t have [...]

Book Review: Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good

Thinking about reading “Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good”? I recommend you don’t.

Google Makes $2 per Unique. Facebook? About 10 cents.

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For the uninitiated, a “unique” is a unique visitor in a given time period, usually a month.  Companies ensure a visitor is a unique visitor with logins, cookies, and IP addresses, and “unique” counts are generally thought to be pretty accurate.  As far as dollars per unique goes, Google is doing something right [...]