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The Mirror columnist Richard Hammond on having a Facebook account: "As far as I can tell it's a sort of cyber-exercise in filing and admin. It must be a colossal pain in the backside to have to run one of these things." That might be the best analysis of Facebook we've ever seen. [The Mirror]

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Fox Interactive Media missed its internal revenue targets for July and August. So, unless they have an extraordinary September, FIM will miss for the quarter. Perhaps the Google/Myspace ad deal isn't working out as well as Tom had hoped. [Silicon Alley Insider]

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Super-cute bulldog pups to destroy Google
Nothing sends me for my back button faster than another pitch for a new search engine. But wily reporter-turned-ringmaster Jason Calacanis has fooled me into giving his new human-powered search tool, Mahalo, a spin. How? Calacanis cleverly talks up Mahalo between photos of his impossibly adorable new puppies. Just as teenage boys find themselves reading the articles in Penthouse, I've been poring through Mahalo's impressively hand-compiled page of 55 links on — what else — bulldogs. More »

4:24 PM on Fri Sep 28 2007
By Paul Boutin
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Latest by ResearchZilla: ...and a brilliant metaphor of sorts...bulldogs have one of the shortest pure-bred lifespans, and share a genetic propensity toward all more »
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3:58 PM on Fri Sep 28 2007
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Latest by ResearchZilla: do you think that you could score a sponsorship from the makers of the shenis too? www.shenis.com more »
100,000 people have joined a Facebook group to support the monk-led protests against Myanmar's junta. Sadly, the government has disconnected the country's Internet connections so we doubt they're providing much in the way of moral support. [IHT]

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Jobster CEO Jason Goldberg on his way out ... of Seattle?
Word around Seattle is that Jobster CEO Jason Goldberg is headed out of the troubled job-search website — for parts east. Sources say that Goldberg's husband, Thomas, has been telling friends of their upcoming move to New York City and, on his last day at Seattle advertising firm Wong Doody, sent out a company-wide goodbye email indicating that he was leaving for geographical reasons, not personal or professional ones. Goldberg glosses over the rumor, telling us "My husband Thomas is applying to graduate-school programs in a number of cities. We currently have no plans to move. And no, I am not leaving Jobster." Though he might be mistaken on that last part. We've heard that the VC community in Seattle is abuzz about the Jobster board's stealth search to replace him. Why is the CEO always the last to know?

2:58 PM on Fri Sep 28 2007
By Megan McCarthy
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Latest by sggrf: You forget one point: Jobster isn't doing well, and it's NOT a new company anymore. The warts are exposed and more »

Despite the software giant's aspirations, Microsoft's older Windows XP is still the newer Windows Vista's biggest enemy. It's cheaper, a known quantity, and "good enough." The software developer has, in some measure, conceded this by allowing PCs to be preloaded with the older OS for an additional five months and, in emerging markets, until the middle of 2010. Copies of XP will also continue to be available at retail. [News.com]

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surly adopter
iPhone update is just another brick in the wall
Apple fanboys, apparently, do need some education. And Steve Jobs is glad to supply it. A software update has, as promised, made hacked iPhones useless — "bricked" them, in the modern parlance. Worse yet, the new software has bricked some unmodified iPhones as well. And people are outraged. These are, of course, by and large the same saps who overpaid by $200 to buy their iPhones in June. And you know what? They're getting what they deserve. More »

1:55 PM on Fri Sep 28 2007
By Owen Thomas
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Latest by rogun64: @sample032: Apple open to third-parties? If that were true, then we'd all be using Macs today and Bill Gates would still more »
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Auren Hoffman's fine whine
In vino veritas, the college kids say. But Auren Hoffman doesn't think there's much truth in wine. The entrepreneur rails against the practice of collecting and drinking wine in a recent blog post, going so far to call it — well, we'll just let him speak for himself:
In fact, it is a scam. I'm not saying wine is totally useless and that no one likes it ... but I am saying that the great majority of people that like wine, like it because so many other people around them like wine. In this case, the Emperor might have some cloths, but it ain't more than a speedo and some sandals.
We think that wine, with its ability to bring momentary but powerful self-confidence and a tendency to make the whole world seem a lot easier to deal with, is far less of a scam, no matter what price you pay, than other projects. Like, say, Hoffman's reputation-evaluation startup Rapleaf. So, we leave it up to the readers. What do you think is the bigger scam, Rapleaf or wine? Vote in our poll, after the jump. More »

1:35 PM on Fri Sep 28 2007
By Megan McCarthy
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Latest by Ivan Ivanobrockovich: Jack and Coke does the trick for me. more »
Removed from his Bay Area fanbase, TechCrunch editor Michael Arrington speaks to a mostly empty room at the DigitalLife convention. Valley fame, it seems, does not travel well. [News.com]

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