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From ValleyWag:

LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut about 1220 of 28 employees - and offered them no severance, we're told. (...) The company's product managers and engineers were laid off, leaving only a handful of finance and ( Read more... )

This is mainly for the Dutchies that read this, VRPO's Tegenlicht will broadcast an episode on Google tomorrow:Wat als alle informatie in de wereld gecategoriseerd en gemakkelijk doorzoekbaar zou zijn? Wat als al het nieuws van over de hele wereld, alle boeken, geschreven teksten, foto's en video die er bestaan op één plaats in de wereld verzameld ( Read more... )

Informative entry by alg on how books make money (or not):Book #1 is a mass market romance novel called Crichton is an Idiot by a brand new author named Aeryn Sun. She doesn't know anyone, and no one's heard of her. You, her loving and caring editor, call in every single favor you've got, but no one has time. You do not take this as a bad sign that no ( Read more... )