Category: Business
NYTimes.com – Deal Sites Have Fading Allure for Merchants
Oh yeah, right now is starting to look like a bad deal.
Ars Technica – Verizon sues to halt FCC’s net neutrality rules
How about the uncertainty for businesses to know if next month they’ll have to pay fees to not have their sites arbitrarily slowed down?
ZDNet – AVOS’ Delicious Disaster: Lessons from a Complete Failure
The second (maybe even third) great migration from Delicious is in effect only this time since exporting is broken, people are even more upset.
Zach Holman – Scaling GitHub’s Employees
Pretty cool read, the focus is on automating tasks so new employees don’t need to know a lot to get started and working, having teams that focus primarily on one single part of GitHub and reducing complexity.
NPR – OnStar Hits Reverse: It Won’t Keep Collecting Data From Old Customers
OnStar however still hasn’t changed it’s mind about selling data it collects from current customers at some point.
Ars Technica – Three Senators condemn OnStar for tracking former customers
Glad I don’t own a vehicle with OnStar installed. It’s more than a little sleazy to collect and sell information from former customers.
binary/organic – Fight Google or Use their Services: Pick One, not Both
Google is so awesome the people complaining about Google are using Google to do their complaining.
Electronista – Microsoft CEO sees open dissent after general meeting
Microsoft is looking worse and worse every day.
Scripting News – Facebook is scaring me
Count me in the group of people now staying logged out of Facebook by default.
Numair Faraz – I was once a Facebook fool
Trusting your business to another business is generally not a good idea, but trusting Facebook is never a good idea.