Coliloquy’s Active Publishing Platform Lets Readers Create Designer Heroines (Demo)

When we were kids, cutting-edge publishing technology was pretty much limited to “choose your own adventure” books. Coliloquy, demoing at D: Dive Into Media, offers a little more interactivity.
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Here’s Gowalla CEO’s Non-Denial Denial Email to Investors About Facebook Acquisition

Let’s put this one in the “done” column, shall we?
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Biz Punches Back at Fortune's Twitter-Bashing (Sort Of!)

Twitter co-founder Biz Stone took time off from his myriad of witty talk show appearances to slap around a just-published Fortune story that was titled–get it?–”Trouble@ Twitter.” Was it a knockout?

Full Disclosure About Full Disclosure in Blogs

Earlier this week, the Knight Digital Media Center penned a post on the full disclosure policy of All Things Digital. Titled “Transparency for Journalists: AllThingsD Shows What It Can Look Like,” it’s a very nice review of what we do on the site. And we just added more, so read up!

Viral Video: "Unknown"

Another freaky but compelling movie trailer–this one for “Unknown,” a bad-guys-stole-my-identity thriller set in Berlin and starring Liam Neeson and January Jones. It’s got a lot of action and special effects, but it looks like the complex story is at the center of the action.

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How Andreessen Horowitz Evaluates CEOs

No position in a company is more important than the CEO, and as a result, no job gets more scrutiny. Sadly, little of this analysis benefits CEOs, as most of the discussions happen behind their backs. This post is a step in the opposite direction. By describing how Andreessen Horowitz evaluates CEOs, I am at the same time describing what I think the job of the CEO is.

Buyer Beware: Twitter Search Is Powerful–And Limited

Twitter’s real-time search capability is a powerful tool–if you want to know what people are talking about on Twitter. If you want to know what people are interested in on the Web, though, it’s a different story. It’s a difference worth thinking about if you’re an Internet company thinking about shelling out a lot of money for the start-up.
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Another Day, Another Questionable Yahoo Story Rocks the Stock

The stock seesaw for Yahoo–fueled this time by a story in The Wall Street Journal that claimed that former AOL CEO Jon Miller was buttonholing private equity firms for money to buy the Internet giant–continues. Yahoo shares rose seven percent due to the report, to $11.50, up 76 cents. Unfortunately for everyone but stock manipulators, the Journal story had a lot of problems, including the highly pertinent fact that Miller has not been actively working on such a deal with any more effort that he had been over the last six months. “Nothing is different now than it was last week, or even months ago,” said one person close to the situation.