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Owen Thomas wrote Jason Calacanis, the mop-haired founder of Mahalo, an overfunded Web directory, is musing on Twitter about "tickers and rallies past" — a Proustian substitution of stock markets for madeleines. But what, exactly, does he have to be nostalgic for?
http://valleywag.com/5100925/ 10:23 AM on December 2, 2008
Ted Dziuba commented on Temptress of Silicon Valley shuts down useless site
"Sir, I believe you have just won the internet."
http://valleywag.com/5100552/#c9196730 3:03 PM on Dec 1
Owen Thomas wrote If a YouTube video gets yanked, if a Blogger blog gets deleted, if a website disappears from Google's search results, chances are Google lawyer Nicole Wong had something to do with it. Wong has kept a low profile, aside from
http://valleywag.com/5100523/ 12:40 PM on December 1, 2008
Owen Thomas wrote What, now they tell us? A recession is not a recession until the number-driven meritocrats of the National Bureau of Economic Research declare it to be one. And now they have. The current recession actually began a year ago, in
http://valleywag.com/5100501/ 12:04 PM on December 1, 2008
Owen Thomas wrote As white-collar workers return desultorily to their desk jobs, they waste time by shopping online. To capitalize on this, a group of online retailers invented "Cyber Monday," a day of Internet discounts to match Black Friday's in-store deals. You'd think
http://valleywag.com/5100432/ 10:20 AM on December 1, 2008
Owen Thomas wrote The recession has an upside, right? As consumers cut back, austerity trend pieces told us chicken was supposed to supplant beef as what's for dinner. But Pilgrim's Pride, the large poultry producer, has gone bankrupt right after Thanksgiving.
http://valleywag.com/5100408/ 9:54 AM on December 1, 2008
Owen Thomas wrote Social networks have a lifecycle: They start with a small core of early adopters, swell as mainstream users get pulled in by their friends, and then see growth taper off as people get turned off by spam. That's why Friendster
http://valleywag.com/5100378/ 8:55 AM on December 1, 2008
Owen Thomas commented on Mysterious billionaires seek editor who doesn't exist
"@SFJoe: As long as I've covered startups, I've heard pompous entrepreneurs and venture capitalists talk about companies being in "stealth mode" -- as if the project they were working on were deserving of being kept secret."
http://valleywag.com/5096138/#c9067714 9:10 PM on Nov 21
Owen Thomas commented on The death of conversational marketing
"@Choire: The comment was unsigned, but I'm assuming it was left by a partisan of Federated Media."
http://valleywag.com/5096382/#c9067642 9:01 PM on Nov 21
Owen Thomas wrote An unproar in the world of tech blogs is uncovering a broader fault line between writers and advertisers. Om Malik's GigaOm and his other blogs have dropped their outside ad-sales firm, Federated Media, a startup run by John Battelle. Federated
http://valleywag.com/5096382/ 2:59 PM on November 21, 2008

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