citadrianne

Hi there, reporter for The Verge here. We're doing a story on this and need to speak to you off the record. Email me at adrianne@theverge.com. Thanks.

The exemption is just for private placement as opposed to an IPO. You still have to be accredited.

Those kinds of protections will be decided by the SEC, although I don't know if they'd think of that. But now is the time to tell them because it's in a public commenting period: http://www.sec.gov/comments/jobs-title-iii/jobs-title-iii.sh...

It's common, but there actually is no exemption for friends and family. Those offerings should technically be done under the 506 exemption which require investors to be accredited.

It was also illegal, before the JOBS Act, to engage in "general solicitation," which is what raising money via a publicly-viewable crowdfunding page would amount to.

I lost a smartphone in Brooklyn and the NYPD bent over backward to get it back and then asked me to fudge the date that I filed the report, which I told them I was uncomfortable doing. It was very weird. They must be able to book it as some great achievement at the station.

They don't want to. That would detract too much from their ability to serve creatives.

very prominent on the sponsored posts.

At $200 a night, you'd still have to rent your extra room in your teeny tiny apartment 105 days out of the year.

Not defending Forbes, but the bill was amended to only apply to sites outside US jurisdiction.

"Lamar’s amendments also clarify that sites ending in .com, .org and .net are not covered by the bill. Only foreign sites fall under SOPA’s wrath."

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/sopa-watered-down-a...

And another one from Google: There's no reason to delete things, ever.

There are more examples of expensive classes in this followup story on Betabeat: "In fact, there’s plenty of demand for pricey Ruby classes. A ten-session intro class at NYU is $1,295. Ruby classes can run upwards of $2,000 for a three-day course. New Yorkers can get five days of Ruby and Rails training at the for-profit training center Marakana for $2,150. Codeacademy offers 12-week courses for $6,000."

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/12/28/that-2800-ruby-class-that...

The demand for Ruby developers is so much higher than the supply enough that employers won't demand certifications... at least for now.

It's in this story, http://www.betabeat.com/2011/07/18/stanford-students-dont-wa..., which was linked.

Had to do this recently. Reminded me of writing my college essays. So much to say, but it all sounds so cheesy when you write it out.

It also tweets and updates to Facebook -- 'I'm using Lenddo!' -- on your behalf when you register without asking first. When I asked them why, they said that was a cultural difference -- that people in the Philippines 'appreciate' that feature.

kickstarter responded to this. no evidence of fraud. the creator canceled the project.

http://www.betabeat.com/2011/09/15/when-kickstarter-goes-wro...

You underestimate the ability of a large media company to squash innovation and morale. They might get outside investment so they can iterate harder/better/faster but Advance wants to hold onto this goldmine.

From http://www.betabeat.com/2011/09/06/a-startup-is-reborn-reddi...:

Greater independence will mean reddit can go to a new board, which includes reddit OG Alexix Ohanian, who had been serving as an “advisor,” as well as representatives from Conde and Advance, with proposals instead of jockeying within Conde’s budget. Reddit doesn’t plan to seek outside funding at this time, Mr. Martin said, but it’s not out of the question. “It’s a lot more more of a startup,” he said. “It’s able to happen faster with less overhead.”

Relevant from last week: http://www.betabeat.com/2011/09/02/clone-wars-rise-of-the-fa...

“It’s this whole cargo cult thing, where people imitate the things you see on the surface. Foursquare does badges and they did them really well. And then all of a sudden everyone was like, ‘I want to add badges to my startup!’”

Wall Street layoffs.

Why would they offer renter's insurance? It's just a few days at a time.

via a non-profit like OSI -- or just one person who would agree to license the name to anyone who asked for legit BTC business

explaining google+ and its appeal has pretty much just been this: http://xkcd.com/918/

I think it's fair to call it capitalism--he's obviously capitalizing. What's debatable is how conscionable that is.

He would have done better to go to someone in the Bitcoin community and offer his services. Someone should own the trademark to protect it. Lots of cc and open source stuff has registered trademarks so the name can't be abused.

This isn't going anywhere. It will be reviewed sometime around August 22: http://tarr.uspto.gov/servlet/tarr?regser=serial&entry=8... "New application will be assigned to an examining attorney approximately 3 months after filing date."

And if you do a search for 'Magellan Capital,' who filed the trademark, their trademark is dead.

The question is whether Turntable will have to make so many compromises with the labels that the site loses its appeal. You can't skip through something like more than two songs in a row in 8tracks. You could see how those kinds of restrictions could potentially ruin the fun of Turntable.

I think it's hard to predict what abolishing patents would do to innovation. For example, there are no patents in fashion, which actually ends up putting pressure on creators to be superinnovative to stay ahead of the copycats. Ref: http://www.ted.com/talks/view/lang///id/866

Some more context on this: http://www.betabeat.com/2011/04/27/tumblr-gave-danah-boyds-u...

I wrote another post with OKCupid's response: http://www.observer.com/2011/tech/okcupid-we-didnt-censor-ou...

OKCupid responds: http://www.observer.com/2011/tech/okcupid-we-didnt-censor-ou...

It sounds like Flickr is throwing engineers at the problem now--they responded with a statement which is in the updated post:

http://www.observer.com/2011/tech/flickr-accidentally-delete...