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TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 11/15/2008
Two "tell all" books about the world's biggest social networks will be published in 2009. The first, set to be published on March 17, 2009, is Wall Street Journal editor Julia Angwin's Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America (you can pre-order it here ). The second is Fortune Senior Editor David Kirkpatrick's upcoming book on Facebook called The Facebook Effect...
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Valleywag (Free subscription) | 10/30/2008
Brad Greenspan, the former CEO of Intermix Media, the company which launched MySpace, loves to make trouble for News Corp., the media giant he claims bought Intermix and MySpace for a song. Too bad...
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TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 11/01/2008
We've been getting a lot of tips from people who have been having problems reaching the Revver website lately, getting videos uploaded or playing the ones already hosted on the platform. We haven't paid much attention to them so far, because every time we check, the site seems up and we experience no trouble playing videos. But something is definitely up.
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Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
Arnold Kling writes: >EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty: It should also be noted that Brad DeLong hates Greenspan and adores Bernanke... Ummm... No. I like Alan Greenspan a lot. I now think he was wrong not to move aggressively to curb the housing bubble of the 2000s. But I think all in all he did a very good job as a central banker over 18 years:
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Free Advice (Free subscription) | 10/29/2008
Ironically, just after I posted (below) that Brad DeLong has finally come around to questioning whether Greenspan made the right move in cutting interest rates so much, I see the headlines that the Fed has once again lowered rates down to 1%. Let me say it once again, for the record: Suppose that Ludwig von Mises and Friedrich Hayek were right, and that really low interest rates (caused by the
