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BoomTown Decodes the Zuckerberg Terms of Service My-Bad Memo (Now With 10 Percent More "So Very Sorrys!")

Kara Swisher in News on February 18, 2009 at 2:21 am PT

Under cover of darkness last night, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on the social-networking site’s blog that it would “return to our previous terms of use while we resolve the issues that people have raised.” Oh, this is just too good to resist. Therefore, BoomTown shall not tarry in our ongoing job of busting the chops of the young Facebook leader, whose minions have actually–and I am not joking here–given him the nickname: The Wizard. Well, the Wizard obviously had to pull back the curtain last night and show some serious mea culpa to the people, before they got out the pitchforks. Here’s a translation of Zuckerberg’s message.

Yahoogle?: Microsoft Will "Let Loose the Dogs of War"

Kara Swisher in News on June 12, 2008 at 5:39 pm PT

With the ad-outsourcing deal between Yahoo and Google finally announced–in a press release so parsed and careful, it makes me immediately suspect–one Microsoft source joked to me: “Let loose the dogs of war.” Translation: Bite me!