CEOs For Sale! Come and Get Your CEOs!
I’ve heard from two sources close to the Digg CEO search that there were a glut of good candidates. That's something companies always say, and I frankly found it hard to believe.
I don’t necessarily mean that as a knock on Digg. I was surprised there were a ton of “great” CEO candidates to run any company in the unsexy critical-mass-but-not-flavor-of-the-month category—period.
Both sources told me the same thing: The existence of a secondary market means that top talent is churning through startups faster than ever. While Digg’s eventual hire was Matt Williams formerly of old-man-of-the-Internet Amazon, sources told me that potential candidates were also coming from hot, pre-IPO Web darlings.
I’ve asked around and had a few entrepreneurs and VCs confirm the trend: The secondary market is upping the talent churn to levels not seen in the Valley since the late 1990s. 
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Rapist who targeted British holidaymakers arrested in Corfu – The Guardian
The SunRapist who targeted British holidaymakers arrested in CorfuThe GuardianA serial rapist who targeted British holidaymakers in Corfu was imprisoned pending trial yesterday following his arrest in a forest on the island. Dimitris Aspiotis confessed...
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Cricket ‘betting scam’ man bailed
The man at the centre of cricket betting scam allegations about the Pakistan team has been bailed without charge, police say.
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Arrest over Test ‘bets scam’
Police question a man over an alleged cricket betting scam during the current Pakistan-England Test, with claims Pakistan players were paid to bowl "no balls".
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Lawsuit Day Continues: Microsoft Takes i4i Fight To The Supreme Court
While not the biggest Microsoft-related lawsuit news of the day, Microsoft just announced that it'll be taking its patent infringement case against XML purveyor i4i to the highest level, the US Supreme Court.
Last August a federal court of appeals upheld the decision of a lower court that Microsoft had in fact infringed i4i's XML patent ('449), by introducing Microsoft WORD in 2003 and continuing the XML editing capabilities through 2007. Microsoft was ordered to pay i4i $290 million dollars in fees and change the disputed version of Word.
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Diaspora Three Weeks Away From Unveiling Open-Source Facebook Alternative
Remember Diaspora? You'll be forgiven if you don't. Since they received a lot of hype as the open-source "Facebook Alternative" this past May, they've been quiet. In fact, they hadn't given any updates on their progress since early July. But today they've re-emerged with some updates. Notably, they say: "We have Diaspora working, we like it, and it will be open-sourced on September 15th." That's just three weeks away.
That's good news. But even though it has only been three months since the initial buzz began about the project, the online world has slightly changed. Back then, it seemed as if everyone with a voice on the web was screaming bloody murder about Facebook and their privacy issues. That plus a timely New York Times profile helped Diaspora raise over $200,000 from the crowd-sourced fundraising site Kickstarter -- the most ever raised on the site and an amazing $190,000 more than Diaspora's original goal. But today, again, just three months later, Facebook is still growing like a weed. Controversy keeps bubbling up, but it just as quickly subsides.
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Diaspora Three Weeks Away From Unveiling Open-Source Facebook Alternative
Remember Diaspora? You'll be forgiven if you don't. Since they received a lot of hype as the open-source "Facebook Alternative" this past May, they've been quiet. In fact, they hadn't given any updates on their progress since early July. But today they've re-emerged with some updates. Notably, they say: "We have Diaspora working, we like it, and it will be open-sourced on September 15th." That's just three weeks away.
That's good news. But even though it has only been three months since the initial buzz began about the project, the online world has slightly changed. Back then, it seemed as if everyone with a voice on the web was screaming bloody murder about Facebook and their privacy issues. That plus a timely New York Times profile helped Diaspora raise over $200,000 from the crowd-sourced fundraising site Kickstarter -- the most ever raised on the site and an amazing $190,000 more than Diaspora's original goal. But today, again, just three months later, Facebook is still growing like a weed. Controversy keeps bubbling up, but it just as quickly subsides.
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Move Over Fail Whale, Digg 4?s Got A Fail Ox
If you've been on the new Digg at all in the past day or so you're probably already familiar with the above "Fail Ox" image, especially if you're trying to use Digg search. The image is new, and is the result of Digg designer Tyson Rosage's obsession with The Oregon Trail, you know the old school computer game.
Founder Kevin Rose told TechCrunch and Twitter last night that Digg experienced over 1 million unique visits on its launch day (the site has been averaging about 8.7 million unique visits per month, according to Comscore) as well as "a handful of new bugs." "We hope to have all the major issues fixed in the next 24hrs," says Rose, which might affect the ubiquity of the "404" page. Consensus among users I've talked to is that the site seems to be moving forward from the scaling issues it had yesterday both in terms of speed and in terms of frequency of "Fail Oxen."
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Move Over Fail Whale, Digg 4?s Got A Fail Ox
If you've been on the new Digg at all in the past day or so you're probably already familiar with the above "Fail Ox" image, especially if you're trying to use Digg search. The image is new, and is the result of Digg designer Tyson Rosage's obsession with The Oregon Trail, you know the old school computer game.
Founder Kevin Rose told TechCrunch and Twitter last night that Digg experienced over 1 million unique visits on its launch day (the site has been averaging about 8.7 million unique visits per month, according to Comscore) as well as "a handful of new bugs." "We hope to have all the major issues fixed in the next 24hrs," says Rose, which might affect the ubiquity of the "404" page. Consensus among users I've talked to is that the site seems to be moving forward from the scaling issues it had yesterday both in terms of speed and in terms of frequency of "Fail Oxen."
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Clegg rejects budget criticism – Reuters UK
Telegraph.co.ukClegg rejects budget criticismReuters UKA child points as Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg poses for photographers during a visit to the Shepherd's Bush Families Project and Children's Centre in west London August 18, 2010. LONDO...
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