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    Foreigners Seduce, Reject Twitterati

    Would You Buy a Trendy, $1,000 Mini-Pig?

    Squirrel Porn, Rappers Dot Twitterati Wish List

    How a 'Made' Startup Was Clipped

    The Twitterati Give Their Divorce Lawyer a Porn Name

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    Image of Drunken Economist Drunken Economist
    11/16/09

    In reply to Foreigners Seduce, Reject Twitterati
    ..and now she's on Vivek Wadhwa's camel:

    (Sarah Lacey spews Pro-India Anti-China piece while on Wadhwa's Camel)
    [mindtaker.blogspot.com]

    .. and writing fluffy Pro India PR tripe, probably copy/pasting straight from Vivek's lappy. Dunno, the writing in that TechCrunch article seems too.. intelligent for her style. #wereadtwittersoyoudonthaveto
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    Image of CumaeanSibyl CumaeanSibyl
    11/07/09

    In reply to Foreigners Seduce, Reject Twitterati
    If you wanna party you better bring your own wine coolers, sonny, because I ain't buying this for you. #wereadtwittersoyoudonthaveto
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    11/06/09

    In reply to Foreigners Seduce, Reject Twitterati
    What precious Sarah Lacy does NOT say is, they start at five in the FUCKING MORNING, when decent people are just going to bed. #wereadtwittersoyoudonthaveto
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    Image of ms_priestypants ms_priestypants
    10/07/09

    In reply to Would You Buy a Trendy, $1,000 Mini-Pig?
    I'd like to see the reaction when the $1K mini-elephant comes out. I, for one, will be bankrupt.
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    Image of pony_express pony_express
    10/07/09

    @ms_priestypants: Oh, I want a mini elephant! Have you seen the mini donkey though? Much more affordable and can be used for hauling around tiny amounts of luggage.
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    Image of raincoaster raincoaster
    10/08/09


    @pony_express: Demi Moore already beat you to it.
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    Image of Magister Magister
    08/28/09

    In reply to Squirrel Porn, Rappers Dot Twitterati Wish List
    When I hear Tom Petty, once I get past the image of the song, I might think of Gainesville, his hometown.
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    Image of insidefb insidefb
    08/20/09

    In reply to How a 'Made' Startup Was Clipped
    iLike was propped up by its nepotistic relationship with Facebook -- Ali and Hadi's relationships with Sandberg are well known. She used her influence to make them a "Great App" and what happens to them? They get bought by MySpace. Now MySpace owns Facebook's Great App.
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    Image of prsiii prsiii
    08/18/09

    In reply to How a 'Made' Startup Was Clipped
    structuring a company for flipping (as is typically the unsaid case of those businesses who lack an obvious revenue channel) dooms it to failure if it does not create a direct threat for those businesses that do have such a channel.

    First question that any investor should ask: What is your business model? Second question: What is your exit strategy? Unless both have practical answers that are easy to understand...hey, I've got this great thing you should get in on!
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    08/18/09

    @prsiii: iLike's business pitch to the investors must have been, "Hey, we're're just like Last.fm. Except lamer. And with less than half the number of registered users. Please invest in us, we are the future."
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    Image of Mad Due to No More Bonnets Mad Due to No More Bonnets
    08/18/09

    In reply to How a 'Made' Startup Was Clipped
    First of all, I loved it. Quick question though, are they panicked about the fire, or are they being brave for everyone else?
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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    08/18/09

    In reply to How a 'Made' Startup Was Clipped
    Bubble 2.0.

    A lot of the exact same mentality as in 1999. People who don't know jack about either the web or basic consumer behavior predicting wild successes from business models that don't really exist, the companies being espoused getting caught up in all that praise themselves, but neither consumers nor revenue ever really developing. And in hindsight, it's always obvious. "Who the hell would even think you could make money off a Facebook widget??"

    It still amazes me that so many people look at companies like this, see that they are trying to do something that's popular in real life somewhere on the internet and therefore think they've got it made. Hey, lots of people eat too, so maybe I'll be the Facebook Farmer. I'll have a farm and put it on Facebook. I should be a billionaire, right? It's automatic!
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    Image of TriedandTrue TriedandTrue
    08/18/09

    @badasscat: I agree with you on most your statement. However, there has to be a link between User-populated content and advertising dollars. The first designer that can bridge that gap in a social network type of forum wins the game.
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    Image of Richard Blakeley Richard Blakeley
    08/18/09

    In reply to How a 'Made' Startup Was Clipped
    I was just saying earlier to a few of our Gizmodo guys, "Hey remember when Facebook widgets and apps were the shit? What ever happened to those things?"

    I guess the answer was nothing, back to my twitter follow me if you'd like @blakeley LOLZ!
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    Image of Jason McCabe Calacanis Jason McCabe Calacanis
    08/18/09

    @blakeley: What happened to them was they were way to effective and they were put on page two of your Facebook profile. Now the only ones that really are scaling are casual games from Zynga.... how long before Facebook buys that company--or launches their own games--is anyone's guess.

    There is only one platform you should trust your business on: the interwebs. Building a business on Facebook or the iPhone is a recipe for disaster.
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    Image of Say that is cool Say that is cool
    08/18/09

    In reply to How a 'Made' Startup Was Clipped
    Boy! Jemaine has really been working out.
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    Image of Uncle_Billy_Slumming Uncle_Billy_Slumming
    08/18/09

    In reply to How a 'Made' Startup Was Clipped
    Sure, but if you're slick and quick you can put a few million bucks away before it all comes crashing down.
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    Image of FaceMelter FaceMelter
    08/18/09

    @Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Look at Ev. That guy is the greatest gigolo the valley has ever seen.
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    Image of The Lone Scout The Lone Scout
    08/18/09

    In reply to How a 'Made' Startup Was Clipped
    Web two-point-no.
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    Image of JulesNoctambule JulesNoctambule
    05/11/09

    In reply to The Twitterati Give Their Divorce Lawyer a Porn Name
    Penelope Trunk -- isn't she the one who stalked a guy about some comment he made and posted all about it on her blog? Real class act.
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    Image of Lizawithazee Lizawithazee
    05/11/09

    @JulesNoctambule: Is she related to Penelope Tree?
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    05/11/09

    In reply to The Twitterati Give Their Divorce Lawyer a Porn Name
    Stupid husband-- doesn't he know bad feng shui can be cured with mirrors and fountains and pictures of turtles and shit? It's SCIENCE. Jeez.
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