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Once beleaguered, now big league

Tim Faulkner — Wed, 30 May 2007 17:54:47 EDT

As the market closed today, Apple, the iPod and niche computer maker, surged past the $100 billion mark to finish with a market valuation of $102.7 billion dollars.

Still 20-50% smaller than most of the large enterprise technology companies (Cisco, IBM, Intel, HP), Apple has the 3rd largest cash horde of the companies displayed, larger than HP, Google, IBM, and Intel. They have passed in value database king Oracle and left behind former computer manufacturing and consumer electronic powerhouses, Dell and Sony. If you haven't already, it's time to reevaluate the strength and power of the company that nearly went out of business ten years ago... as well as the power of consumer technology in an industry once dominated by the enterprise.

[Data compiled from Yahoo Finance; Dell does not have cash reserves, Sony's cash reserve data is unavailable.]

Who's banned where

Nick Douglas — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:49:28 EDT

NICK DOUGLAS — Thailand will continue banning YouTube even though the user who posted a video mocking the king has taken it down. (There are still two pics on YouTube, says Thailand, that harm the king's sensitive sensibilities.) But Google says they'll work with Thailand to help censor YouTube. So who's outlawed in what country? Where is Google banned, and where's it just censored? And what's with North Korea? Let's answer this with the magic of charts!

	China	Thailand	Brazil	North Korea	Turkey
Google	Censored	Available	Available	Banned	Available
YouTube	Temporarily banned last year	Banned	Temporarily banned in January	Banned	Temporarily, maybe soon permanently, banned
Yahoo	Censored and gov't-friendly	Available	Available	Banned	Available
AOL	Available, uncensored?	Available	Available	Banned	Available
Ask.com	Censored?	Available	Available	Banned	Available
MSN	Censored	Available	Available	Banned	Available
Wikipedia	English site banned; Chinese site temporarily banned 2005-2006	Available	Available	You get the picture. North Korea has its own little Internet of about 30 sites.	Available

Nick Douglas writes for Valleywag, Blogebrity, and Look Shiny. He's never even been kicked out of a party.

Wagged, sagged, body-bagged: Things we've decided are dead

Nick Douglas — Thu, 25 May 2006 10:30:00 EDT

Nick Carr, long-time flamebaiter turned linkbaiter, declares Wikipedia dead. (No fair pointing at the very live site!) We can't let Nick be the only one gunning for Steve Gillmor's coroner job. So in the interest of upping our own fake authority, here's Valleywag's table of what's wagged, sagged, and body-bagged. Apologies to Wired — that is, we're so very sorry.

Wagged	Sagged	Body-bagged
Fox Interactive buyouts	CNET buyouts	AOL buyouts
"We're in gamma."	"We're in beta."	"That's not a bug, that's a feature."
Getting TechCrunched	Getting BoingBoinged	Getting press
Kevin Rose	Matt Haughey	CowboyNeal
Steve Jobs in Nikes	Steve Jobs in New Balance	Steve Jobs in sweater vests
Crowdsourcing	Outsourcing	Open sourcing

The Death of Wikipedia [Nick Carr]