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Google Grounds Chrome for Violating Webmaster Guidelines
Yesterday, I wrote about the really scummy thing Google Chrome did to boost its rankings: paying people to write posts about it, which is in direct violation of Google Webmaster Guidelines. Google...
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Google, You Scummy Bastard
Evil: that’s the only word you can use to describe Google’s recent misadventure in which it was found to be systematically accessing Mocality’s database – a Kenyan business directory – to sell...
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Ex-Cruncher Sarah Lacy Launches PandoDaily with $2.5M in Funding. I Smell...
It's a horrible joke, I know. One of my favorite TechCrunch exiles, Sarah Lacy, is off to no good: she’s just started a news blog about startups and technology, PandoDaily.com, in direct competition...
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Caught in the Act Again: Google Contractors ‘Sacked’ After Vandalizing...
The bad week for Google PR refuses to end. A few days after Google’s Mocality misadventure in Kenya, Google contractors have been found to be vandalizing OpenStreetMap (OSM) by removing vital...
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iWork, No More
In a few months – July 31 to be precise – Apple will close the curtains on iWork and redirect all users to iCloud instead. According to this Apple release: “Documents already shared on iWork will not...
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Twitter Buys Posterous
I’ll restrain from cracking one more ‘joined the flock’ pun and report this as is: Twitter has bought Posterous. The Posterous team will now be working at Twitter HQ doing – well, this is the part...
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Oink Heads to the Abattoir After Four Months in Operation
It’s been barely four months since Milk announced the launch of its rating app, Oink, but the Kevin Rose backed startup is already closing the doors on its first launch, according to an announcement...
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The Revamped Rdio is “Faster, Simpler and More Social”
Competition inspires creativity, or at least it has done so in the case of Rdio. Against Spotify’s slickness, Rdio’s rusty, ramshackle interface looked decidedly old-school. Not any longer. Rdio has...
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Sortable Acquired by Rebellion Media
In January, I wrote about an exciting new startup, Sortable, based out of Waterloo, Canada that aimed to disrupt the product recommendation vertical. Sortable adopted a contrarian approach to product...
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Months After Sexism Charges, GeekList Finally Comes Out of Beta
The shadow of sexism still looms heavy over GeekList, the community for all things geek, but the startup is finally coming out of beta and opening up to everyone (non-geeks and women included,...
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