TMZ's managing editor asked a pressing boob question; Twitter's founder inflated a newspaper article; and a TechCrunch writer puffed up her sources. The Twitterati were swell.
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AOL is interested in buying the world's largest tech blog, Mashable, we hear from a source at the internet conglomerate. And in fact the two sides have been talking, people outside AOL have whispered to one another, and to us.
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Remember the moment you knew MySpace was doomed? It came in the form of obnoxious ads. Which your Twitter stream is about to be. So: are you making that cash, or being cashed in on? Pay Per Post is back.
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A Brit commented happily on American girls; an actual mayor commented pessimistically on foursquare and Jeremy Piven commented critically on Halloween. The Twitterati were flexing their credentials.
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That would be Mike Arrington, who plays startup kingmaker at TechCrunch. His recent no-shows: Arrington's Crunchies awards, Arrington's TechCrunch 50 prize ceremony and now a panel discussion that Arrington thought would turn against him.
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Twitter's hard-core users, mostly men, tend to size up fellow microbloggers by examining the length of their... follower lists. That's what they did, at least, until celebrities started dominating Twitter. Now a new yardstick excites the geeks: Twitter lists.
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It may seem crass to put a pricetag on a human life. But you never know when a brand-name blogger like Matt Drudge or Perez Hilton might be tragically killed. Luckily, 24/7 Wall Street has calculated the economic loss.
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The S&P 500 is up slightly since the start of June, rising one percent, but we're told Peter Thiel's Clarium Capital is having a much worse time. In fact, the Pay Pal co-founder should avoid thinking about work this weekend.
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It's now scientifically proven: 40 percent of Twitter is "pointless babble," and the rest is mainly replies to pointless babble, and spam. But there are a few very interesting tweeters; they scare the hell out of celebrities like William Shatner. More »
Social network lunch.com is convening "Geeks at the Beach" today and tomorrow in Los Angeles. It's a think tank with "critical thinking... expanding the enlightened mind." So who's there? All the top tech thinkers:
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