Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Ben Rubin, the cofounder of the streaming social video app Meerkat, had just arrived at SXSW in Austin, Texas, started handing out bright yellow T-shirts, and was enjoying his app’s massive buzz when he got the call. It was from Twitter: They wanted to let him know that Meerkat’s access to the Twitter graph was…
Whisper shut down its news division after <em>The</em> <em>Guardian’s</em> misreported story, leaving four people unemployed. Photo: Shutterstock Back in October, The Guardian published a juicy multipart feature on Whisper, an anonymous secret-sharing app that the paper said was harvesting private data without users’ consent. The series of stories alleged that Whisper tracked “anonymous” users and that it…
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Let’s face it: Being too privileged is a heavy burden. You have so much and others, so very little. If only there was a way to help the have-nots have some (for a price!). Welcome to WellDeserved: “a marketplace for privilege.” “Privilege goes unused every single day—why would we waste any of it?” says WellDeserved…
Tech media eulogized one of its own on Tuesday when GigaOm abruptly announced it had run out of money and was ceasing operations after eight years. GigaOm had a big-name founder, blogger Om Malik, and loads of money ($22 million) from VC backers, and was seemingly on the march, snapping up PaidContent in 2012. According to…
TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington on stage with Gigaom founder Om Malik in February. Money troubles have forced the pioneering tech blog Gigaom to shutter. “Gigaom recently became unable to pay its creditors in full at this time,” the website said in a statement. “All operations have ceased.” The news site didn’t say when its financial…
GigaOm, the 9-year-old tech blog based in San Francisco, will shut down due to a lack of financial resources, a senior editor there confirmed Monday. The site, which was launched by tech blogger Om Malik in 2006, is one of several sites covering Silicon Valley and the tech industry. It also produces a number of…
Gigaom, a pioneering technology blog that became a fixture in Silicon Valley and claimed 6.4 million monthly readers, abruptly announced on Monday that it would shut down. The site, which was founded in 2006, seemed to have been stopped dead in its tracks — earlier Monday, it had been posting articles, most recently on Apple….
According to a spate of tweets from its staffers and also confirmation from sources, iconic tech blog Gigaom is closing down. I reached out to the online publication’s high-profile creator Om Malik and he declined comment for the present. “Not now dude,” he texted me. Well, then, for now, here’s what I could glean: The…
Gigaom is winding down and its assets are now controlled by the company’s lenders. It is not how you want the story of a company you founded to end. Every founder starts on a path — hopeful and optimistic, full of desire to build something that helps change the world for the better, reshape an…