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Boot$trapping: 'Spend it' Like Dell & Newmark
Editor’s Note: Our latest “startup math” piece comes to you from Found|READ contributor Steve Nielsen. He is founder and CEO of PartnerUp , the online network that helps entrepreneurs find good...
View ArticleDogs In Costume, Streets of Fear: NTV Station Today
Here’s a video that combines both Halloween AND politics — the New York Post’s coverage of a dog costume contest. Spoiler alert: the Sarah Palin pup wins 1st prize....
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Craigslist on eBay: "Untrustworthy"; eBay on Craigslist: "Amateurish"
Executives from eBay and Craigslist testified in a Delaware court over the course of the week over the auction giant’s stake in the classifieds leader. If you didn’t fork over $400 to watch today’s...
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Craig Newmark on the Web’s Next Big Problem
I had the chance to sit down with Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark recently at his favorite breakfast spot in San Francisco, just a block or two from the house where Craigslist was launched 15 years...
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Craig Newmark: Social Networks Are Shifting the Balance of Power
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark says that he believes social networking and the rise of distributed trust and reputation networks are helping to shift the balance of power in society, away from those...
View ArticleFrom Cuban To Schmidt: Advice The Digital Elite Has Offered Newspapers
Over the last couple of years, as the newspaper business has become ever more desperate, a slew of high-profile media figures have volunteered suggestions on a new way forward, recommending that...
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Craig Newmark: Media Is the Immune System of Democracy
One of the themes of the Activate conference, put on by The Guardian Media Group at the Paley Center in New York on Thursday, was the power of the networked world — including what Guardian...
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People don’t care about scoops, they care about trust
We have written a number of times about how social media and the “democratization of distribution” has compressed the news cycle to the point where the half-life of a scoop is measured in minutes...
View ArticleCraigslist’s big bluff
Craigslist says it can use the classified ads written by its users as the basis for copyright lawsuits. The claim is a legal longshot at best and the latest act of aggression from a site once known for...
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PolitiFact launches new feature called PunditFact — and makes its job...
One of the criticisms many people have about the web and social media is that they allow anyone to say or write whatever they want regardless of accuracy, but the corollary is that this same...
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