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Say Media Raises $27 Million and Gets Ready to Start Shopping
Have a Web site you’d like to sell? Matt Sanchez may be interested.Hashtags of Shame
On your birthday, I find you wherever I turn. I will say that I have loved aspects of you, hated others, and could not understand many more.
— One of three tweets that were the basis for an arrest warrant for Hamza Kashgari, who addressed the Prophet Muhammad on his birthday, and is now charged as apostate and an infidel, both of which are crimes punishable by death
Is GigaOM Buying paidContent?
Om Malik won’t say. But we should find out soon.Tech Blogger Starts a Company Around His Data Mining (a.k.a. Web Stalking) Skills
Longtime tech blogger (if there is such a thing!) Marshall Kirkpatrick is starting a data mining company devoted to discovering emerging information.The Locker Project Helps You Stalk Yourself Online
A new start-up called Singly is building an open-source service called the Locker Project to help users archive and leverage their own data.News Byte
Child Prodigy: Android Turns Three
Three years ago today, with many people expecting Google to introduce its own phone, the company instead unveiled a mobile operating system called Android, with CEO Eric Schmidt saying, “Imagine not just one Gphone, but a thousand Gphones as a result of the partnerships.” Today, the fruits of that strategy are reflected in every new market-share report. For the sentimental, the folks at ReadWriteWeb have compiled a lovely baby book, full of pictures and videos chronicling the first years of the precocious OS.News Byte
Netflix Lets You Move a Movie from Your iPhone to Your TV
A nifty update to the popular Netflix iPhone app: You can now port video directly from your handset. The folks over at ReadWriteWeb think this is huge news, but I can’t see why: Anyone with a computer and a Netflix subscription can already do this, and most iPhone owners also have computers, right? Still, a cool party trick.News Byte