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38,207karma·5,954submissions·April 19, 2008
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Mostly known among your parents for creating the infamous Popurls and Twidroyd (Very first Android Twitter app). Idealab alumni.

Later biztoc.com (With Mark Cuban, acquired by ProRata)

Still running upstract.com

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Austria, Japan, CA

recent activity (5,954 total)
9 pts
How a Sony Veteran Is Overhauling the Company He Grew Up In(wsj.com)
6h ago·discuss
2 pts
BlackBerry: From phone dinosaur to tech champion(ft.com)
13h ago·discuss
7 pts
Apple Maps Rolls Out Ads, Targets Madison Avenue(mediapost.com)
2d ago·2 comments
4 pts
You can now turn off Google Gemini's visible watermarks(theverge.com)
2d ago·discuss
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European publishers are getting hit harder by AI bot scraping, report finds(digiday.com)
2d ago·1 comments
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Chatbots are doing the work of Congress with little oversight(washingtonpost.com)
2d ago·discuss
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The great silence: why haven't we found any aliens yet?(theguardian.com)
2d ago·1 comments
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Hooray for index funds–just don't call them passive(economist.com)
3d ago·1 comments
7 pts
X open sources its ranking algo, letting users see if they've been shadowbanned(techcrunch.com)
3d ago·1 comments
5 pts
Perplexity blocks Time's ads served to AI agents, calling them 'deceptive'(digiday.com)
3d ago·discuss
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For news: https://biztoc.com
3d ago·view thread
6 pts
Lawsuit seeks to ban Trump Media from charging for early access to posts(apnews.com)
3d ago·1 comments
2 pts
Fake Forbes websites and the PR agency offering guaranteed coverage – at a price(pressgazette.co.uk)
4d ago·discuss
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The Datamaxxers Feeding Their Every Health Move to AI(wsj.com)
4d ago·discuss
132 pts
Pixel 11 Pro Fold(blog.google)
4d ago·201 comments
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Anything other than a .com for a commercial site screams gimmick and immediately strips away most of its credibility. Go .com or go home.
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2 pts
Confessions of a former star M&A reporter(ft.com)
4d ago·discuss
1 pts
A Herbal Product Sold at Gas Stations Is Being Blamed for an Addiction Crisis(wsj.com)
5d ago·discuss
2 pts
French newspapers appeal to antitrust regulator over Google's AI summaries(france24.com)
5d ago·discuss
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Too expensive & unpredictable credit system.
5d ago·view thread
11 pts
FlightAware Sues Kalshi over Flight Cancellation Prediction Markets(wsj.com)
5d ago·1 comments
169 pts
Manus will return to operating as an independent company(manus.im)
5d ago·90 comments
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Spotify to Label AI Artists on the Platform with New 'AI Persona' Badge(billboard.com)
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Great podcast on this: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0XqYCQT4PgD3axPy0w5Wcd He calls this category certainty .…
5d ago·view thread
3 pts
Anthropic pledges to embed watermarks to help discern AI slop in sop to EU(theregister.com)
5d ago·2 comments
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YouTube requires creators to have twice as many watch hours for earning money(techcrunch.com)
5d ago·discuss
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The AI Barons Are Ready to Give Away Their Fortunes(wired.com)
6d ago·discuss
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Reservation Apps Have Made Getting into a Restaurant a Nightmare(wsj.com)
6d ago·1 comments
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The Rise of the Unstoppable American Tourist(wsj.com)
6d ago·discuss
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Google doesn't need the LLM crown(semafor.com)
7d ago·discuss