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This doesn't surprise me at all, it was just a matter of time before ad networks and retargeters, et al, caught up to include Facebook. FB's "social plugins" and the cookies they leave laying around give these companies an incredibly reliable way of identifying unique users and mapping their profiles. Which is very valuable to them.

One of the larger sites I run was recently approached by an ad network to drop a pixel upon user registration that would pair a user's email address with an identifier for unique tagging within their ad network. I declined for ethical reasons, but it was interesting nonetheless to see that this pairing is so valuable to ad networks, that they would pay for it separate from any display services.

Just imagine the look on her face when your mother's cousin opens the zip file and sees every piece of profile text she's ever typed in it. Creeeeeeeepy.

Shouldn't it be "French ex-trader"?

Are there any meetups/after parties/etc in the area that one could attend? Half of the value of being in that auditorium would be meeting other hackers/entrepreneurs, I would hope not to lose out on that completely while i'm in the valley.

For a second there I thought he was talking to me.

This makes me truly sad. It's clear they've learned nothing from their own browser history and have a terrible attitude towards the progress of the modern web.

That network graph would be AWESOME.

Edit: I just realized I read the posts backwards. I suppose it's not fake if that's actually what Dave McClure was referencing in his deleted tweet. Still. Perhaps these "super angel" could do with some spelling and grammar lessons. (Yes, I could probably use some too.)

That was the moment I resolved never to leave critical, blocking elements of any site I run into the hands of others, no matter how well known or reliable they are. (FWIW, this also includes ad network invocation scripts and similar, which always seem to be notoriously slow to load).

Who knows what could end up happening to the joojoo. Maybe the IP even ends up getting bought up by some OEM vendor and sold as a new product. Or maybe they even somehow turn around and become profitable. Sure, these all sound absurd. But if TC can afford to take this to trial and make sure FG gets punished for it, why wouldn't they?

Edit: Why am I getting downvoted? It's a simple question, IANAL.

[1]: http://zachinglis.com/2010/why-tumblr-sucks/ "What feels like 70% uptime"

If you get the chance to hear him before he retires (he's 68 and still going strong!), I would strongly recommend it.

> "Virtual router smashes speed records" corrections: not virtual, just pc-based software; not gigabytes, but Gbps; our perf is w/ 64B packets

(source: http://twitter.com/sbmoon/status/21921061318)