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Owen Thomas commented on Mysterious billionaires seek editor who doesn't exist
"@SFJoe: As long as I've covered startups, I've heard pompous entrepreneurs and venture capitalists talk about companies being in "stealth mode" -- as if the project they were working on were deserving of being kept secret."
http://valleywag.com/5096138/#c9067714 9:10 PM on Nov 21
Owen Thomas commented on The death of conversational marketing
"@Choire: The comment was unsigned, but I'm assuming it was left by a partisan of Federated Media."
http://valleywag.com/5096382/#c9067642 9:01 PM on Nov 21
Owen Thomas wrote An unproar in the world of tech blogs is uncovering a broader fault line between writers and advertisers. Om Malik's GigaOm and his other blogs have dropped their outside ad-sales firm, Federated Media, a startup run by John Battelle. Federated
http://valleywag.com/5096382/ 2:59 PM on November 21, 2008
Owen Thomas wrote Through the golden heart of every world-changing startup pulses an avaricious get-rich-quick scheme. Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the billionaire-boy cofounders of Google, established this doing-well-by-doing-good myth. But Mark Zuckerberg hasn't been able to make the same magic happen for
http://valleywag.com/5096252/ 1:28 PM on November 21, 2008
Owen Thomas wrote President-elect Barack Obama has picked Tim Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, rather than former Harvard University president Larry Summers, as Treasury secretary. That makes it unlikely that Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, who worked for Summers
http://valleywag.com/5096194/ 12:40 PM on November 21, 2008
Owen Thomas wrote Into the jaws of an advertising recession comes the launch of the most hubristic media venture we've heard of: a "super-stealth new online company backed and funded by some legendary billionaires." The requirements for the top job go from laugh
http://valleywag.com/5096138/ 11:53 AM on November 21, 2008
Owen Thomas wrote A tipster tells us that Palm, the troubled smartphone maker, is laying off 10 percent of its staff. I called a spokeswoman at the company, who confirmed the layoffs but not the number of employees affected; Palm, at last count,
http://valleywag.com/5096117/ 11:43 AM on November 21, 2008
Owen Thomas wrote It was a fantasy left over from the last boom: Hire a movie star to pitch your startup, and the dusting of tinsel will turbocharge sales. Those William Shatner ads sold plane tickets for Priceline, right? But the career of
http://valleywag.com/5096007/ 10:55 AM on November 21, 2008
Owen Thomas wrote Lifecasting, a kind of do-it-yourself reality TV broadcast on the Internet, has thousands of practitioners. Until last night, one of them was Abraham Biggs, a 19-year-old Florida resident, who used a webcam to broadcast his death, too.
http://valleywag.com/5095418/ 11:50 PM on November 20, 2008
Owen Thomas wrote If Chinese viewers want to watch Disney's Hannah Montana — no accounting for global tastes — they can do so on 56.com, an online-video site akin to YouTube. The show is pirated. But does Disney really mind? Its startup-investment arm,
http://valleywag.com/5095383/ 10:00 PM on November 20, 2008

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