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Technical Accuracy: Why the Tech Press Just Can’t Get It (even close to) Right

August 19th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Technical people complain about tech reporters.  They gloss over details.  They ask dumb questions.  They don’t understand why we are the most important people they’ve ever talked to.
Some of those criticisms are baseless.  Technical reporters have a really hard job. They write about complicated subjects for a really broad audience, so they have to try [...]

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Sonya Labs: Can Startups Be a Pittsburgh Thing?

July 8th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I recently wrote about the Alpha Lab incumbator funding several companies in Pittsburgh.  Yesterday, Shimon Rura, a former colleague of mine at Babbledog, sent me a link to the blog at Sonya Labs, one of the Alpha Lab fundees, and specifically, a nice writeup about the state of startup funding here in Pittsburgh.  Sonya Labs [...]

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Tags: money · pittsburgh · web

Google Sells Your Analytics Data (finally)

June 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Google is at it again.  They are taking the bread and butter of someone else’s business and giving it away for free in order to further their massively profitable ad-selling business.  The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google will offer a free tool to measure web traffic targeted at helping advertisers select the right [...]

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