Amanda Enayati / Salon:
My relentless pursuit of the guy who robbed me — A thief broke into my car. I used Craigslist, a dating site, MySpace and a fast food joint to track him down In the first 24 hours after someone broke into my car in my own driveway, I was mostly mad at my husband.
Aaron Greenspan / The Huffington Post:
The Legend of Mark Zuckerberg — What’s Your Reaction: … Bill Gates got me into Harvard. — I had never met the man even once in my life, and I had certainly never been the beneficiary of his unparalleled personal fortune in any direct sense. I had, of course, used his company’s software …
Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
How to pitch your company at Techcrunch or get investors to write checks — I saw over 100 company pitches last week at DEMO and at Google. There will be 100 more at Techcrunch Disrupt next week. The good ones stand out immediately. How can you get noticed?
Greg Sandoval / CNET News:
Lawmakers want power to shut down ‘pirate sites’ — A group of senators want to hand the U.S. Department of Justice the power to shut down Web sites dedicated to the illegal sharing online of film, music, software, and other intellectual property. — “The Combating Online Infringement …
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Developers On Google Apps Marketplace: The Good, The Bad And The Ugly — Six months ago, Google launched its very own app store for enterprise apps, the Google Apps Marketplace, at the search giant’s Campfire One event. The idea behind the marketplace was fairly simple—using a set of APIs …
Anil Dash:
Twitter, Transclusion and Trust — The new Twitter is here! The new Twitter is here! Besides sowing discontent in our household by giving me access to the new user interface before my wife’s account has been upgraded, the big new feature of the update to venerable old Twitter.com …
sami ben gharbia:
The Internet Freedom Fallacy and the Arab Digital activism — Introduction — This article focuses on grassroots digital activism in the Arab world and the risks of what seems to be an inevitable collusion with U.S foreign policy and interests. It sums up the most important elements …
Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Evan Williams Coughed Up ,500 For Twitter.com Back In The Day — Mid-2006, when Twitter was born, the domain name Twitter.com changed hands for ,500, chief executive and co-founder Evan Williams tweeted yesterday night. — Roughly four years, 145 million users and 300,000 third-party applications later …
Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:
A Closer Look At The Google Buzz Privacy Settlement — On December 20th, a federal judge in the Bay Area will be asked to approve an .5 million settlement between Google and several Gmail users who sued earlier this year over the way Google Buzz was launched in February.
Anupreeta Das / Wall Street Journal:
GoDaddy Is on the Block — GoDaddy.com, the closely-held company that registers Internet domain names, has put itself up for sale in an auction that could fetch more than billion, people familiar with the matter said. — Qatalyst Partners, the boutique firm run by veteran technology …