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Fake Steve Jobs On The iPad, Conflicts Of Interest, And Apple’s Draconian PR Tactics

It’s no secret that there weren’t many iPads given out ahead of time. Apple is, of course, notorious for their extreme secrecy and the hammer that inevitably comes down on leakers and embargo breakers. They have the press in the hollow of their hand, with the iPad more than ever. Time and Newsweek are competing [...]

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Sun, April 4 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Hulu’s Internal Training Video (And Its Alien Plot) Revealed

If you head over to Hulu right now and start watching a video, you’ll notice that the site has turned on a new 3D feature. At least, it looks like they were trying to — when you click the button, the site instead opens a video marked “Hulu Confidential — For Internal Use Only” (looks like [...]

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Thu, April 1 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Fake Steve Jobs Blog Likely To Shut Down

It took a year for anyone to figure out that Forbes (now Newsweek) writer Dan Lyons was the guy behind the Fake Steve Jobs blog. Now, a couple of years later, the blog is still going strong. And it remains very, very funny.
Now Lyons’ success in writing about Steve Jobs may lead directly to [...]

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Mon, March 29 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

The Connection Between Fake Steve Jobs And Walt Mosspuppet

The rumor circulating around Silicon Valley yesterday: Walt Mosspuppet, the foul-mouthed and funny puppet version of the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg, is actually the brainchild of Newsweek’s Dan Lyons, AKA Fake Steve Jobs. Lyons, says the rumor, actually writes the scripts for all of the videos, and Brian Hogg acts them out with the [...]

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Sat, March 27 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments