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meebo:url="http://cdixon.posterous.com/bubble-or-bust-nobody-knows-anything" meebo:title="Bubble or Bust? Nobody Knows Anything" meebo:thumbnail="http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2009/09/dixon.png"> <div class="header" style="background: #E8E8E8;"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730im_/http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2009/09/dixon.png" width="60" height="60" class="guest-thumb" alt="Chris Dixon"/> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://cdixon.posterous.com/bubble-or-bust-nobody-knows-anything" rel="nofollow" target="allthingsd_voices"><span>Chris Dixon</span><span class="guest-title">Blogger, cdixon.org</span></a></h3> <div style="clear: left;"></div> </div> <div class="middle" style="background: #E8E8E8;"> <div class="inner"> <h4><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://cdixon.posterous.com/bubble-or-bust-nobody-knows-anything" target="allthingsd_voices">Bubble or Bust? Nobody Knows Anything</a></h4> <div class="entry"> Sequoia Capital is widely (and, in my opinion, correctly) considered to be the best venture capital firm on the planet. </div> </div> </div> </div> <div meebo:url="http://www.slate.com/id/2275552" meebo:title="Every Day's a Tax Holiday" meebo:thumbnail="http://voices.allthingsd.com/files//2008/09/farhad_manjoo.jpg"> <div class="header" style="background: #E8E8E8;"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730im_/http://voices.allthingsd.com/files//2008/09/farhad_manjoo.jpg" width="60" height="60" class="guest-thumb" alt="Farhad Manjoo"/> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://www.slate.com/id/2275552" rel="nofollow" target="allthingsd_voices"><span>Farhad Manjoo</span><span class="guest-title">Technology Columnist, Slate.com</span></a></h3> <div style="clear: left;"></div> </div> <div class="middle" style="background: #E8E8E8;"> <div class="inner"> <h4><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://www.slate.com/id/2275552" target="allthingsd_voices">Every Day's a Tax Holiday</a></h4> <div class="entry"> Apple's new 11-inch MacBook Air has a list price of $999--that's what you'll pay at Apple.com and the Apple store, as well as at Best Buy and other large retailers. </div> </div> </div> </div> <div meebo:url="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/business/media/23adco.html?_r=2" meebo:title="Viewers May Be Willing to Watch More Ads Online. Lots More." meebo:thumbnail="http://voices.allthingsd.com/files//home/allthingsd/co/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/5/files//2008/05/brian_stelter.jpg"> <div class="header" style="background: #E8E8E8;"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730im_/http://voices.allthingsd.com/files//home/allthingsd/co/public_html/wp-content/blogs.dir/5/files//2008/05/brian_stelter.jpg" width="60" height="60" class="guest-thumb" alt="Brian Stelter"/> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/business/media/23adco.html?_r=2" rel="nofollow" target="allthingsd_voices"><span>Brian Stelter</span><span class="guest-title">Media Reporter, New York Times</span></a></h3> <div style="clear: left;"></div> </div> <div class="middle" style="background: #E8E8E8;"> <div class="inner"> <h4><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/business/media/23adco.html?_r=2" target="allthingsd_voices">Viewers May Be Willing to Watch More Ads Online. Lots More.</a></h4> <div class="entry"> Viewers of television shows on the Web have grown accustomed to 15- and 30-second commercial breaks--a fraction of the time given for commercials on traditional TV. </div> </div> </div> </div> <div meebo:url="http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-11-21/twitter-killed-media-criticism" meebo:title="Twitter Killed Media Criticism" meebo:thumbnail="http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2009/04/voices-author-male.png"> <div class="header" style="background: #E8E8E8;"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730im_/http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2009/04/voices-author-male.png" width="60" height="60" class="guest-thumb" alt="Ben Crair"/> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-11-21/twitter-killed-media-criticism" rel="nofollow" target="allthingsd_voices"><span>Ben Crair</span><span class="guest-title">Deputy News Editor, The Daily Beast</span></a></h3> <div style="clear: left;"></div> </div> <div class="middle" style="background: #E8E8E8;"> <div class="inner"> <h4><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-11-21/twitter-killed-media-criticism" target="allthingsd_voices">Twitter Killed Media Criticism</a></h4> <div class="entry"> Ever since reporters started using Twitter, an old guard of newspaper hands has complained that the micro-blogging site is undermining the art of journalism, 140 characters at a time. </div> </div> </div> </div> <div meebo:url="http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/151/i-want-my-twitter-tv.html" meebo:title="I Want My Twitter TV!" meebo:thumbnail="http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2009/04/voices-author-female.png"> <div class="header" style="background: #E8E8E8;"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730im_/http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2009/04/voices-author-female.png" width="60" height="60" class="guest-thumb" alt="Ellen McGirt"/> <h3><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/151/i-want-my-twitter-tv.html" rel="nofollow" target="allthingsd_voices"><span>Ellen McGirt</span><span class="guest-title">Writer, Fast Company</span></a></h3> <div style="clear: left;"></div> </div> <div class="middle" style="background: #E8E8E8;"> <div class="inner"> <h4><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/151/i-want-my-twitter-tv.html" target="allthingsd_voices">I Want My Twitter TV!</a></h4> <div class="entry"> It is 75 minutes before showtime at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, and the Justin Bieber Watch is in full effect. </div> </div> </div> </div> <div style="padding: 0px 10px 8px 10px; margin-bottom: 9px; background: #E8E8E8;"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://voices.allthingsd.com/">More Voices Inside &raquo;</a> </div> <div class="bottom"> <h3>About Voices</h3> <p>This is a section of the <strong>All Things Digital</strong> Web site featuring posts from around the Web, from other Dow Jones properties and also original pieces we solicit. The section is now explicitly labeled that it comes &ldquo;from other Web sites.&rdquo;</p> <p>Regarding third-party posts: We are trying to point readers of this site to other posts from around the Web that we admire and are trying to do so in the quickest manner possible.</p> <p>That is why we have made even more changes to Voices to ensure we do this in the most transparent and timely way. While we don't expect that everyone will agree with our policies, we have made changes that reflect our intent in pointing to content outside our site.</p> <p>So here is exactly what we do.</p> <p> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://allthingsd.com/about/voices/">Read More &raquo;</a> </p> </div> </div> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://allthingsd.com/subscribe/#widgets" title="Get All Things Digital Widgets for My Yahoo! and iGoogle"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730im_/http://allthingsd.com/files/2008/12/allthingsd-widget-button-200.png" class="centered" style="margin: 0; padding: none;" alt="All Things Digital Widgets"/></a> </div><!--/left--> <div id="content-main"> <div id="content-left" class="posts"> <div class="post" meebo:url="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20101125/happy-thanksgiving-from-atd-2010/" meebo:title="Happy Thanksgiving From ATD" meebo:thumbnail="http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/kara-different-view.jpg"> <h4 class="dateheader">Thursday, November 25, 2010</h4> <div class="entry"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://kara.allthingsd.com/20101125/happy-thanksgiving-from-atd-2010/" class="shorty"><strong>Happy Thanksgiving From ATD</strong></a> <img src="/web/20101125125730im_/http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/d-mini.png" class="shorty" alt="DD Shorty"/></p> <p>Happy Thanksgiving! We&#8217;ll be publishing more lightly after tonight, but there will be news over the holiday weekend, so keep checking back.</p> </div> <div class="postmeta"> <span class="comments"></span> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="post" meebo:url="http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/20101124/the-allthingsd-thanksgiving-reader-and-watcher/" meebo:title="The Turducken-Free All Things D Thanksgiving Reader (and Watcher)" meebo:thumbnail="http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/files/2010/11/nixon-thanksgiving-l-275x184.jpg"> <h4 class="dateheader">Wednesday, November 24, 2010</h4> <div class="home-post-title-box"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730im_/http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/lizgannes-64x64.jpg" alt="NetworkEffect" class="home-icon" width="64" height="64"/></a> <h4 class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/20101124/the-allthingsd-thanksgiving-reader-and-watcher/" rel="bookmark">The Turducken-Free <strong>All Things D</strong> Thanksgiving Reader (and Watcher)</a></h4> <p class="byline">by Liz Gannes in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/">NetworkEffect</a><span> at 12:10 pm PT</span> </p> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> <div class="entry"> <p><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730im_/http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/files/2010/11/nixon-thanksgiving-l-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="nixon-thanksgiving-l" width="150" height="150" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-735"/> <em>Hold the Turducken!</em> Even without that freakish Thanksgiving treat, the Web is full of fun diversions on every topic, including the thankful, enhanced-patted-down long weekend of consumption Americans have ahead of us. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/20101124/the-allthingsd-thanksgiving-reader-and-watcher/" rel="nofollow">Read More&nbsp;&raquo;</a></p> </div> <div class="postmeta"> <span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/20101124/the-allthingsd-thanksgiving-reader-and-watcher/#comments" class="comments_link" rel="nofollow">2 Comments</a></span> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="post" meebo:url="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20101124/bleacher-reports-brian-grey-talks-about-new-content-biz-as-patrick-keane-joins-board/" meebo:title="Bleacher Report’s Brian Grey Talks About New Content Biz, as Patrick Keane Joins Board" meebo:thumbnail="http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2010/11/112310ATDbleacher-275x154.jpg"> <div class="home-post-title-box"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://kara.allthingsd.com/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730im_/http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/kara-different-view.jpg" alt="BoomTown" class="home-icon" width="64" height="64"/></a> <h4 class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://kara.allthingsd.com/20101124/bleacher-reports-brian-grey-talks-about-new-content-biz-as-patrick-keane-joins-board/" rel="bookmark">Bleacher Report&#8217;s Brian Grey Talks About New Content Biz, as Patrick Keane Joins Board</a></h4> <p class="byline">by Kara Swisher in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://kara.allthingsd.com/">BoomTown</a><span> at 11:30 am PT</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://kara.allthingsd.com/20101124/bleacher-reports-brian-grey-talks-about-new-content-biz-as-patrick-keane-joins-board/"><img src="/web/20101125125730im_/http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/tv.gif" alt="Watch the video" style="float: none; margin: 0px 0 0 0; vertical-align: top; display: inline;"/></a> </p> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> <div class="entry"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2010/11/112310ATDbleacher.jpg"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730im_/http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2010/11/112310ATDbleacher-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="112310ATDbleacher" width="150" height="150" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-37665"/></a> Earlier this week, BoomTown went downtown to the San Francisco HQ of Bleacher Report, one of the many interesting efforts trying to change the way content is made and distributed. Bleacher Report, no surprise, is focused on sports, and competes with sites such as Yardbarker and SB Nation. All take different approaches, with Bleacher Report delivering a grassroots platform for both professional and hobbyist writers who want give their take on any topic about college and professional sports, from the latest draft to explaining what&#8217;s the deal with &#8220;Fear the Beard.&#8221; <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://kara.allthingsd.com/20101124/bleacher-reports-brian-grey-talks-about-new-content-biz-as-patrick-keane-joins-board/" rel="nofollow">Read More&nbsp;&raquo;</a></p> </div> <div class="postmeta"> <span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://kara.allthingsd.com/20101124/bleacher-reports-brian-grey-talks-about-new-content-biz-as-patrick-keane-joins-board/#comments" class="comments_link" rel="nofollow">1 Comment</a></span> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="post newsbyte" meebo:url="http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101124/pew-study-the-well-off-use-the-net-more/" meebo:title="Pew Study: The Well-Off Use the Net More"> <div class="home-post-title-box"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://voices.allthingsd.com/"><img src="/web/20101125125730im_/http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/icon_newsbyte.png" alt="News Byte" class="home-icon" width="64" height="64"/></a> <h4 class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101124/pew-study-the-well-off-use-the-net-more/" rel="bookmark">Pew Study: The Well-Off Use the Net More</a></h4> <p>This just in from the Department of Unsurprising Research Results: The nation&#8217;s wealthier households are more likely than those less blessed to own technology gear and use the Internet. According to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1809/internet-usage-higher-income-americans">recent surveys by the Pew Research Center&#8217;s Internet &amp; American Life Project</a>, those making $75,000 a year and up are more likely to: Have desktops, laptops, music players and game consoles; tap into the Internet frequently and for a greater variety of tasks; and engage in e-commerce. One other note: Even among households with similar access to the Net, the wealthier were more active users.</p> <p class="byline" style="line-height:1em;margin-bottom:0;">Posted by John Murrell <span> at 11:20 am PT</span></p> </div> <div class="postmeta" style="border-top:none;padding-top:0;"> <span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101124/pew-study-the-well-off-use-the-net-more/#comments" class="comments_link" rel="nofollow">Comment</a></span> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="post" meebo:url="http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20101124/a-cmo-for-nokia/" meebo:title="A CMO for Nokia" meebo:thumbnail="http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/files/2010/11/Arrivals.jpeg"> <div class="home-post-title-box"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730im_/http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/john-different-view.jpg" alt="Digital Daily" class="home-icon" width="64" height="64"/></a> <h4 class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20101124/a-cmo-for-nokia/" rel="bookmark">A CMO for Nokia</a></h4> <p class="byline">by John Paczkowski in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/">Digital Daily</a><span> at 9:59 am PT</span> </p> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> <div class="entry"> <p><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730im_/http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/files/2010/11/Arrivals.jpeg" alt="" title="Arrivals" width="123" height="99" class="alignright size-full wp-image-53177"/>Another executive appointment at Nokia and further indication of the direction in which newly installed CEO Stephen Elop hopes to take the company. This morning Nokia tapped Jerri DeVard as its chief marketing officer, its first ever. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20101124/a-cmo-for-nokia/" rel="nofollow">Read More&nbsp;&raquo;</a></p> </div> <div class="postmeta"> <span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20101124/a-cmo-for-nokia/#comments" class="comments_link" rel="nofollow">Comment</a></span> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="post" meebo:url="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101124/hey-look-that-crazy-stunt-bike-dude-has-a-new-youtube-video/" meebo:title="Hey Look! That Crazy Stunt Bike Dude Has a New YouTube Video" meebo:thumbnail="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2010/11/mcaskill-youtube-275x213.png"> <div class="home-post-title-box"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730im_/http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/peter-different-view.jpg" alt="MediaMemo" class="home-icon" width="64" height="64"/></a> <h4 class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101124/hey-look-that-crazy-stunt-bike-dude-has-a-new-youtube-video/" rel="bookmark">Hey Look! That Crazy Stunt Bike Dude Has a New YouTube Video</a></h4> <p class="byline">by Peter Kafka in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/">MediaMemo</a><span> at 9:32 am PT</span> </p> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> <div class="entry"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2010/11/mcaskill-youtube.png"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730im_/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2010/11/mcaskill-youtube-275x213.png" alt="" title="mcaskill youtube" width="200" height="154" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-26339"/></a>Which happens to be a Red Bull ad. Not that you&#8217;d know it&#8230;. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101124/hey-look-that-crazy-stunt-bike-dude-has-a-new-youtube-video/" rel="nofollow">Read More&nbsp;&raquo;</a></p> </div> <div class="postmeta"> <span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101124/hey-look-that-crazy-stunt-bike-dude-has-a-new-youtube-video/#comments" class="comments_link" rel="nofollow">Comment</a></span> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="post" meebo:url="http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101124/supply-data-now-a-focus-of-probe/" meebo:title="Supply Data Now a Focus of Probe" meebo:thumbnail="http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2009/04/voices-author-female.png"> <div class="home-post-title-box"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://voices.allthingsd.com/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730im_/http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2009/04/voices-author-female.png" alt="Voices" class="home-icon" width="64" height="64"/></a> <h4 class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101124/supply-data-now-a-focus-of-probe/" rel="bookmark">Supply Data Now a Focus of Probe</a></h4> <p class="byline">by Susan Pulliam | Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://voices.allthingsd.com/">Voices</a><span> at 8:30 am PT</span> </p> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> <div class="entry"> <p>Has the &#8220;channel check&#8221; become a criminal act? Wall Street analysts have been left bewildered in recent days, as federal prosecutors begin to home in on insider-trading cases that appear to involve routinely published information about public-company supply chains. Case in point: Apple. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101124/supply-data-now-a-focus-of-probe/" rel="nofollow">Read More&nbsp;&raquo;</a></p> </div> <div class="postmeta"> <span class="comments"></span> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="post newsbyte" meebo:url="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101124/no-thats-not-really-someone-giving-birth-on-google-streetview/" meebo:title="No, That’s Not Really Someone Giving Birth on Google Street View" meebo:thumbnail="http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/peter-different-view.jpg"> <div class="home-post-title-box"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/"><img src="/web/20101125125730im_/http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/icon_newsbyte.png" alt="News Byte" class="home-icon" width="64" height="64"/></a> <h4 class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101124/no-thats-not-really-someone-giving-birth-on-google-streetview/" rel="bookmark">No, That&#8217;s Not Really Someone Giving Birth on Google Street View</a></h4> <p>It&#8217;s the day before Thanksgiving, and it could easily be a slow news day (unless you&#8217;re interested in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/25/world/asia/25seoul.html?hp">armed conflict between North and South Korea</a>). So: Yes, that <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://news.google.com/news/story?oe=utf-8&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&amp;client=firefox-a&amp;q=google+street+view+photo&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;ncl=diYb23j5gtMH1-MNSAV_86n-1cVLM&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=jBftTMvZD4K0lQfM5NSLAQ&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=news_result&amp;ct=more-results&amp;resnum=6&amp;ved=0CC4QqgIwBQ">photo of someone giving birth on a German street</a>, supposedly captured by Google&#8217;s roving Street View camera, isn&#8217;t real. Just ask <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://twitter.com/GoogleDE/status/7031435965759488">Google</a>.</p> <p class="byline" style="line-height:1em;margin-bottom:0;">Posted by Peter Kafka <span> at 5:51 am PT</span></p> </div> <div class="postmeta" style="border-top:none;padding-top:0;"> <span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101124/no-thats-not-really-someone-giving-birth-on-google-streetview/#comments" class="comments_link" rel="nofollow">Comment</a></span> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="post" meebo:url="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20101124/obama-signs-a-euro-ipad-hey-its-almost-thanksgiving/" meebo:title="Obama Signs a Euro-iPad (Hey, It’s Almost Thanksgiving!)" meebo:thumbnail="http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2010/11/president_obama_signs_an_ipad_at_seattle_rally_2-275x206.jpg"> <div class="home-post-title-plain"> <h4 class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://kara.allthingsd.com/20101124/obama-signs-a-euro-ipad-hey-its-almost-thanksgiving/" rel="bookmark">Obama Signs a Euro-iPad (Hey, It&#8217;s Almost Thanksgiving!)</a></h4> <p class="byline">by Kara Swisher in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://kara.allthingsd.com/">BoomTown</a><span> at 5:45 am PT</span> </p> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> <div class="entry"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2010/11/president_obama_signs_an_ipad_at_seattle_rally_2.jpeg"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730im_/http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2010/11/president_obama_signs_an_ipad_at_seattle_rally_2-275x206.jpg" alt="" title="president_obama_signs_an_ipad_at_seattle_rally_2" width="150" height="110" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-37650"/></a> Here is a funny video sent to us of President Barack Obama, while at the Lisbon summit this past week, signing an Apple iPad using a touchscreen software program. &#8220;I&#8217;ve done this once before,&#8221; he said, as he signed like a pro. And, indeed, Obama had put his John Hancock on one in Seattle just a month ago. Despite all the unrealized hope for some more progress in the digital arena by his administration, I guess he <em>is</em> the Internet President. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://kara.allthingsd.com/20101124/obama-signs-a-euro-ipad-hey-its-almost-thanksgiving/" rel="nofollow">Read More&nbsp;&raquo;</a></p> </div> <div class="postmeta"> <span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://kara.allthingsd.com/20101124/obama-signs-a-euro-ipad-hey-its-almost-thanksgiving/#comments" class="comments_link" rel="nofollow">2 Comments</a></span> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="post" meebo:url="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101124/joshua-schachter-goes-from-delicious-to-tasty/" meebo:title="Joshua Schachter Goes From Delicious to Tasty" meebo:thumbnail="http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2010/11/joshua-schachter-244x300.jpg"> <div class="home-post-title-plain"> <h4 class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101124/joshua-schachter-goes-from-delicious-to-tasty/" rel="bookmark">Joshua Schachter Goes From Delicious to Tasty</a></h4> <p class="byline">by Peter Kafka in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/">MediaMemo</a><span> at 5:11 am PT</span> </p> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> <div class="entry"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2010/11/joshua-schachter.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-26320" title="joshua schachter" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730im_/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/files/2010/11/joshua-schachter-244x300.jpg" alt="" width="162" height="200"/></a>Union Square Ventures, which bet on the social start-up pioneer on his first venture, makes another wager. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101124/joshua-schachter-goes-from-delicious-to-tasty/" rel="nofollow">Read More&nbsp;&raquo;</a></p> </div> <div class="postmeta"> <span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20101124/joshua-schachter-goes-from-delicious-to-tasty/#comments" class="comments_link" rel="nofollow">Comment</a></span> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="post" meebo:url="http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101124/china-mobile-competition-could-heat-up/" meebo:title="China Mobile Competition Could Heat Up" meebo:thumbnail="http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2009/08/lorettachao.jpg"> <div class="home-post-title-box"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://voices.allthingsd.com/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730im_/http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2009/08/lorettachao.jpg" alt="Voices" class="home-icon" width="64" height="64"/></a> <h4 class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101124/china-mobile-competition-could-heat-up/" rel="bookmark">China Mobile Competition Could Heat Up</a></h4> <p class="byline">by Loretta Chao | Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://voices.allthingsd.com/">Voices</a><span> at 5:00 am PT</span> </p> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> <div class="entry"> <p>China’s government has begun testing a policy allow mobile subscribers to switch carriers without changing their phone numbers in two locations, the eastern coastal metropolis of Tianjin and the southern island province of Hainan–potentially bringing the long-anticipated move toward full number portability closer to reality and adding to mounting competition for telecommunications giant China Mobile. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101124/china-mobile-competition-could-heat-up/" rel="nofollow">Read More&nbsp;&raquo;</a></p> </div> <div class="postmeta"> <span class="comments"></span> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="post" meebo:url="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20101124/viral-video-when-yelp-came-knocking-at-my-door/" meebo:title="Viral Video: “When Yelp Came Knocking at My Door”" meebo:thumbnail="http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2010/11/yelp2-275x275.jpg"> <div class="home-post-title-plain"> <h4 class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://kara.allthingsd.com/20101124/viral-video-when-yelp-came-knocking-at-my-door/" rel="bookmark">Viral Video: &#8220;When Yelp Came Knocking at My Door&#8221;</a></h4> <p class="byline">by Kara Swisher in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://kara.allthingsd.com/">BoomTown</a><span> at 12:19 am PT</span> </p> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> <div class="entry"> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2010/11/yelp2.jpeg"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730im_/http://kara.allthingsd.com/files/2010/11/yelp2-150x150.jpg" alt="" title="yelp2" width="150" height="150" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-37629"/></a> Here is a cute video that Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman pointed me to, which is a result of its most recent hackathon. Set all around San Francisco and also Yelp&#8217;s HQ downtown, it&#8217;s not its official theme song for the online reviews site. But it should be, as it has a nice indie feel, kind of a geek version of the Moldy Peaches. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://kara.allthingsd.com/20101124/viral-video-when-yelp-came-knocking-at-my-door/" rel="nofollow">Read More&nbsp;&raquo;</a></p> </div> <div class="postmeta"> <span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://kara.allthingsd.com/20101124/viral-video-when-yelp-came-knocking-at-my-door/#comments" class="comments_link" rel="nofollow">1 Comment</a></span> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="post" meebo:url="http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/20101124/general-catalyst-heads-west-to-find-some-young-men-and-women-to-fund/" meebo:title="General Catalyst Heads West, to Find Some Young Men and Women to Fund" meebo:thumbnail="http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/files/2010/11/GenCat-275x154.png"> <div class="home-post-title-plain"> <h4 class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/20101124/general-catalyst-heads-west-to-find-some-young-men-and-women-to-fund/" rel="bookmark">General Catalyst Heads West, to Find Some Young Men and Women to Fund</a></h4> <p class="byline">by Liz Gannes in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/">NetworkEffect</a><span> at 12:01 am PT</span> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/20101124/general-catalyst-heads-west-to-find-some-young-men-and-women-to-fund/"><img src="/web/20101125125730im_/http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/tv.gif" alt="Watch the video" style="float: none; margin: 0px 0 0 0; vertical-align: top; display: inline;"/></a> </p> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> <div class="entry"> <p><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730im_/http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/files/2010/11/GenCat-e1290584023989-150x150.png" alt="" title="GenCat" width="150" height="150" class="alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-721"/> Go West, East Coast VC? In fact, the 10-year-old venture capital firm <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://www.generalcatalyst.com/">General Catalyst Partners</a> is moving out two of its partners from Cambridge, Mass., to Palo Alto, Calif.&#8211;just in time to avoid the Boston winter. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/20101124/general-catalyst-heads-west-to-find-some-young-men-and-women-to-fund/" rel="nofollow">Read More&nbsp;&raquo;</a></p> </div> <div class="postmeta"> <span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://networkeffect.allthingsd.com/20101124/general-catalyst-heads-west-to-find-some-young-men-and-women-to-fund/#comments" class="comments_link" rel="nofollow">Comment</a></span> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="post" meebo:url="http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101124/shunned-profiling-technology-on-the-verge-of-comeback/" meebo:title="Shunned Profiling Technology on the Verge of Comeback" meebo:thumbnail="http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2009/04/voices-author-male.png"> <div class="home-post-title-box"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://voices.allthingsd.com/"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730im_/http://voices.allthingsd.com/files/2009/04/voices-author-male.png" alt="Voices" class="home-icon" width="64" height="64"/></a> <h4 class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101124/shunned-profiling-technology-on-the-verge-of-comeback/" rel="bookmark">Shunned Profiling Technology on the Verge of Comeback</a></h4> <p class="byline">by Steve Stecklow and Paul Sonne | Reporters, The Wall Street Journal in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://voices.allthingsd.com/">Voices</a><span> at 12:00 am PT</span> </p> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> <div class="entry"> <p>One of the most potentially intrusive technologies for profiling and targeting Internet users with ads is on the verge of a comeback, two years after an outcry by privacy advocates in the U.S. and Britain appeared to kill it. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101124/shunned-profiling-technology-on-the-verge-of-comeback/" rel="nofollow">Read More&nbsp;&raquo;</a></p> </div> <div class="postmeta"> <span class="comments"></span> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <div class="post newsbyte" meebo:url="http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101123/foursquares-newest-badge-for-getting-your-baggage-handled/" meebo:title="Foursquare’s Newest Badge: For Getting Your “Baggage” Handled."> <h4 class="dateheader">Tuesday, November 23, 2010</h4> <div class="home-post-title-box"> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://voices.allthingsd.com/"><img src="/web/20101125125730im_/http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/icon_newsbyte.png" alt="News Byte" class="home-icon" width="64" height="64"/></a> <h4 class="post-title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101123/foursquares-newest-badge-for-getting-your-baggage-handled/" rel="bookmark">Foursquare&#8217;s Newest Badge: For Getting Your &#8220;Baggage&#8221; Handled.</a></h4> <p>Just in time for the busiest travel days of the year, Foursquare has released a badge for the select few who get to enjoy a TSA pat-down over the holidays&#8211;or at least for those who check in at any airport and shout, &#8220;TSA,&#8221; &#8220;grope&#8221; or, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://aboutfoursquare.com/baggage-handler/">according to AboutFoursquare.com, &#8220;Don&#8217;t touch my junk, bro!&#8221;</a></p> <p class="byline" style="line-height:1em;margin-bottom:0;">Posted by Beth Callaghan <span> at 4:52 pm PT</span></p> </div> <div class="postmeta" style="border-top:none;padding-top:0;"> <span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101123/foursquares-newest-badge-for-getting-your-baggage-handled/#comments" class="comments_link" rel="nofollow">1 Comment</a></span> </div> <div class="clearing"></div> </div> <h4 class="dateheader">Earlier Posts</h4> <ul class="home-earlier-posts"> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://voices.allthingsd.com/20101123/habituated-to-distraction/" rel="bookmark">Habituated to Distraction</a> on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://voices.allthingsd.com/">Voices</a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20101125125730/http://kara.allthingsd.com/20101123/the-bullhorn-interview-video-twitters-adam-bain-silences-boomtown-for-one-second-at-least/" rel="bookmark">The Bullhorn Interview Video: Twitter&#8217;s Adam Bain Silences BoomTown (For One Second, At Least)</a> on <a 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