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Alfred Lin To Leave Zappos, Join Sequoia Capital

Alfred Lin, the COO/CFO of Zappos, has left the company and will join Sequoia Capital. Lin was the no. 2 executive at Zappos at the time of its acquisition by Amazon, and has had a nearly flawless resume as an entrepreneur over the years. Every company he’s worked for has been acquired, and the [...]

Tags: Acquisition, Acquisitions, Amazon, Baby Business, Certain Age, Cfo, Core Values, Email, Entrepreneur, Fingers, Happy News, High Risk Pregnancy, Lot, Midas Touch, Rebecca, Resume, Sequoia Capital, True Boss, Weirdness, Zappos

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Loopt Pulse Bets That Location On The iPad Is About Planning

Location is all the rage right now. The iPad is all the rage right now. So it makes sense that when you combine the two, you’re going to get something awesome. But there’s just one little problem. The iPad, with its 9.7 inch screen is way too big to fit in your pocket. To take [...]

Tags: Advantage, All The Rage, Altman, Bets, Coffee Houses, Different Places, Facebook Friends, Ipad, Lot, Map, New Feature, New Location, People, Pulse, Screenshot, Starbucks

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Check-In Fatigue. Or, Why I’m Rooting For An All-Out Location War.

I didn’t have the same problems at SXSW this year that some people did. Was it too crowded at some events? Sure. But there were plenty of alternative things to do. Did some of the keynotes bomb? Yes. But there were plenty of other things to listen to. Did AT&T fail? No. Actually, they did [...]

Tags: Amp, Bomb, Creators, Fatigue, Hell, Hot Potato, Ins, Job, Keynotes, Loopt, Lot, Midst, Surprise, Twitter, Two Services, Venue

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CODE Advisors Absolutely, Definitely Not Working With MySpace On A Spinoff

Lots of scuttlebutt around Silicon Valley that new investment bank CODE Advisors is out pitching a MySpace spinoff to potential buyers and investors. Sources include people who’ve actually been pitched.
CODE Advisor partner Quincy Smith says “We have not been engaged by News Corp. or MySpace on a sale of the company.” MySpace also contacted us [...]

Tags: Execs, Fred Davis, Ilike, Imeem, Information Code, Investment Advisors, Investment Bank, Investors, Lot, Music Space, Myspace, News Corp, Partner, Pitches, Relationship, Scuttlebutt, Silicon Valley, Spin, Spinoff, Startups

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The Slow-Mo Secrets of the iPad

Neil Curtis has a lot of time on his hands. Rather than just accepting the wool being pulled over our eyes by the Man, he decided to get totally Zapruder on the new iPad commercial and found all sorts of problems with the video, including a number of messy little transitions (the main actor, for [...]

Tags: All Sorts, Apple, Ipad, Lot, Main Actor, Messy, Moon Landing, Neil Curtis, Time On His Hands, Transitions

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Foursquare Just Made Your Location History A Lot More Interesting

As has been made abundantly clear to me over the past two weeks, just about every location-based service is planning big things for the SXSW festival, which starts later this week in Austin, Texas. A few of the players have already started rolling out small changes, such as aesthetic upgrades. But a new, subtle update [...]

Tags: Austin Texas, Bridge, Good Friends, Graph, History Area, History Data, Iphone, Location Based Service, Location History, Lot, New History, Next Level, Paints, Small Changes, Social Networking, Sxsw Festival, Ties, Venue

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Brand New lot New Bluetooth Headset – Necklace Earphone Design

Main Features:

Bluetooth Version: v1.2
Profiles: Handsfree, Headset, A2DP
Operation Range: 10M
Talk Time: 6 Hours
Listen Time: 6 Hours
Standby Time: 100 Hours
Compatibility/Pairing: All Bluetooth devices V1.2 and V1.1/V1.0
Power Source: Built in Li-ion Battery
Other Features:

Necklace Design
Answer/End/Redial Call
Volume Control
Accessories:

Power Adapter
English [...]

Tags: Bluetooth Devices, Bluetooth Headset, Brand New, Compatibility, Control Accessories, Li Ion, Lot, Nbsp, Operation Range, Power Adapter, Power Source, Profiles, Standby Time, Version V1, Volume Control

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Omaha Steaks Pays Good Money To Link Their Product To Heart Attacks

Proof that the software that matches ads to content still needs a lot of work: Omaha Steaks pays good money to link their product to heart attacks. Free shipping! Thanks to Jon Finegold at Thinking Screen Media for sending this in.

Tags: Ads, Finegold, Free Shipping, Heart Attacks, Lot, Omaha Steaks, Proof, Work Money

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Is The Nexus One’s Display Inferior To The iPhone’s?

Well – not entirely. After all, it’s bright, responsive, and has a much higher resolution. But there is a lot more to making a good screen, and under a detailed analysis it’s far from a rout when you pit HTC’s bleeding-edge OLED screen against the old-school LCD of the iPhone.
Here is the basic list of [...]

Tags: Bleeding Edge, Credible Evidence, Iphone, Lot, Nexus, Old School, Rout

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Lose Weight With P90X

For the past few months in my blog posts I have really focused on the things to do to gain mass with P90X, mostly because that’s what I’ve been doing. Even though it’s possible to gain mass with P90X by making adjustments, most people are going to want to lose weight with P90X. P90X is [...]

Tags: 8243, Body Fat, Burning Calories, Diet Plan, Gaining Muscle, Lose Fat, Lose Weight, Lot, Metabolism, P90x, Weight Lose, Weight Loss, Workouts

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