macbeach commented on Who will discover Arianna Huffington's algorithim for vileness?, at 9:47 AM on May 20 HuffPo: It's OK to be vile if your on the right (left) side of the isle. more »

macbeach commented on Steve Ballmer gets egged in Hungary, at 10:27 AM on May 19 While I don't approve of this sort of confrontation (thrown objects) I hardly think of Ballmer as an innocent store clerk. more »

macbeach commented on Orkut inventor may be best argument against H-1B visas yet, at 6:29 PM on May 15 Here is a scoop: Orkut and Blogger seem to be totally unreachable at the moment. more »

macbeach commented on Orkut inventor may be best argument against H-1B visas yet, at 6:00 PM on May 15 Orkut has always seemed like a stepchild product from Google. more »

macbeach commented on Z is for Zuckerberg, the richest of all, at 5:11 PM on May 15 @Owen: Good point. more »

macbeach commented on Ask.com buys reference site Lexico, at 5:07 PM on May 15 Yeah, what's the issue with Diller? more »

macbeach commented on Overstock.com nixes New York affiliates to frustrate taxman, at 11:53 AM on May 15 Fifty millions seems like a piddling amount to gamble driving business out of the state for (but since I hate, rather than love NY, it couldn't happen to a more deserving entity, well, except Hollywood). My lefty friends assure me that governments insatiable appetite for spending more money on mahogany conference tables (Fairfax county government) or losing $30 million in laptops (US State Department), not to mention waste fraud and abuse I've personally witnessed while living in the DC area... more »

macbeach commented on Z is for Zuckerberg, the richest of all, at 11:25 AM on May 15 Close to ten percent of the book seems like quite a lot to me. more »

macbeach commented on T is for Twitter, which turned blogging small, at 11:20 AM on May 15 I'm guessing (as I have no interest in buying the book) that the number of pages devoted to each celebrity-programmer has little to do with the nature of their contribution to the world and more to do with how interesting (i.e. more »

macbeach commented on Children of IT pros expected to take over the server-farm, at 11:14 AM on May 15 I got started in the 70s with a degree in "Computer Science". more »

macbeach commented on CBS buys CNET Networks for $1.8 billion, at 10:24 AM on May 15 Also from the WSJ article this puzzler: - "There are very few opportunities to acquire a profitable, growing, well-managed Internet company like CNET Networks," CBS Chief Executive Leslie Moonves said. - He is using English words, but in a form that I am unfamiliar with. more »

macbeach commented on The first rule of Hair Club is you do not talk about Hair Club, at 7:00 PM on May 14 Ed Norton? more »

macbeach commented on General Motors technology chief plans to skip Windows Vista, at 6:50 PM on May 14 I'm waiting for Windows 37. more »

macbeach commented on Top 5 unintended uses for Microsoft's tactile interfaces, at 6:43 PM on May 14 How about the surface of my ass? more »

macbeach commented on Say what you like about Robert Scoble, just get his name right, at 2:22 PM on May 14 After Scoble derided Valleywag a few times I decided it was more productive to read about Scoble on Valleywag than it was to read about Valleywag on Scoble. But then, I pride myself in having unusual tastes. more »

macbeach commented on Meet Carl Williams, social-media marketing champ (and inmate), at 2:15 PM on May 14 Somehow this gives "knowing who your friends are" new meaning. more »

macbeach commented on Now you can ignore your Facebook "friends" in Trillian, too, at 2:11 PM on May 14 Finally Facebook does something that makes sense! Has Hell frozen over or something? more »

macbeach commented on Judge forces Facebook to out fake profile creators, at 10:55 AM on May 13 From Facebook account settings: "All that's needed to join Facebook is a valid email address." At one time, and maybe still, they talk up the concept of only using real names. more »