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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hmm -- an interesting Fake Steve Jobs post... Just got a nervous call from my lawyers who said they wanted to give me a "heads up" about a "situation" at Broadcom. See more about it here. Basically the feds are going after some Broadcom execs over some options backdating stuff. I'm like, So what? I don't work at Broadcom. They're like, Um, well, see, Broadcom did its own internal...
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Open Sources (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Every now and then I wander over to Dan Lyons' Fake Steve Jobs blog. If you haven't you should take a look some time. Whether you think his caricature of Steve Jobs as a tyrianical artiste is funny or not, you may be surprised by the insightful commentary. Personally, I think FSJ is a pretty good satire, but I wouldn't keep reading it if it weren't for how sharp Dan...
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Via Fake Steve Jobs A generation of unprecedentedly large and fast iPod docks is now on offer, and it has now been announced that firm customer orders have been placed. Air New Zealand will equip eighteen of its airliners with in-flight entertainment rigs allowing iPod users to play their video on seatback screens, listen to audio through the aircraft system, and control their device...
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Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Nice... (via Fake Steve Jobs ) While police in White Plains, N.Y., were coming up empty with their investigation, Duplaga learned that her computer was being used on the Internet, and she turned on the Back to My Mac feature installed on her Mac from another Mac, according to the report. The feature allowed Duplaga to see immediately how the computer was being used at the time,...
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Conglomerate (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
If you haven't seen it, this takedown of Dell Computer is a little business classic.
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MSDN Blogs (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Would you like to see the first public demo in the UK of Live Mesh? Would you like to listen to Fake Steve Jobs, Doug Richards, Ray Kurzweil and others? You can at the Thinking Digital conference in Newcastle from May 21-23. The bad news is tickets are selling out fast. The good news is I have 3 tickets to give away for FREE! This is just tickets only, not travel, expenses etc...
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India Uncut (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
The Fake Steve Jobs tells us what happened when Jerry Yang phoned him: So I cut him off, and I’m like, Jerry, hold on. Hold on. Stop. Listen to me. Jerry, you know what? It's been great knowing you. Really it has. And I think you're going to make a fantastic member of the Ex-Founders Club, alongside Woz and Paul Allen. I’m sure you'll find ways to keep busy. Maybe you can do some...
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Howard Lindzon (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
Not much. Never has. Mostly about ego’s and noise. Who else, but Fake Steve Jobs (Dan Lyons) could have more to say on the shitstorm and the aftermath . It's more important I think to guess tomorrow’s opening and closing price to win a Spiritual Gangster shirt, from a company that uses [...]
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The Furrygoat Experience (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
[Fake Steve Jobs] What really freaks me out is that when you mention this to the VCs, they say, “So what? What's wrong with that'” I used to think they were being coy. But I’ve come to believe that they actually don't know what's wrong with that. Worse yet, they all give me this sad [...]
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[Geeks are Sexy] technology news (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
Have you ever heard about Daniel Lyons? No? What if I tell you that the guy also goes under the name of “Fake Steve Jobs”? Yeah, I thought that this would ring some bells. Daniel Lyons took the world by storm last year when he started an anonymous blog, impersonating a alternative version of Steve [...]
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Stephan Spencer's Scatterings (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
My favorite keynote at the Web 2.0 Expo last week was from one of my favorite bloggers -- the Forbes columnist Daniel Lyons, aka "Fake Steve Jobs." It's an amazing story, how a joke turned into an Internet sensation and then a book deal. And the way Lyons tells it, it's uproariously funny. The 25-minute video is embedded below: As I mentioned above, FSJ started...
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Business Blog Consulting (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
Usually faux blogs get lambasted on the blogosphere for violating the unwritten business blogging rules of transparency, openness, and authenticity. (Remember Raging Cow?) Not so with “Fake Steve Jobs,” aka Forbes columnist Daniel Lyons, who gave a hilarious speech at the Web 2.0 Expo last Friday. The 25-minute video is embedded below: Lyons’ main points about...
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Digital Podcast (Free subscription) | 04/27/2008
In what was certainly the funniest and most enjoyable presentation at Web 2.0 Expo, Dan Lyons AKA Fake Steve Jobs, discusses how he came to start the Fake Steve blog and explains why he thinks it works. Thanks to the Web 2.0 team for putting together this video and the other videos from the Web 2.0 Expo.
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SEOCentro - SEO News (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
One of the most entertaining keynote presentations at the Web 2.0 Expo by far was delivered by Forbes journalist, Dan Lyons. It's a 15 minute long story of how Dan came to start the Fake Steve Jobs blog, it's success and lessons learned. He also makes fun of EVERYONE. Enjoy: http://video.google.com/videoplay'docid=3550977413365196450 Sponsored By : TopRank Internet Marketing Services...
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Extra Technology News (Free subscription) | 04/26/2008
Dan Lyons, aka Fake Steve Jobs, gave his unique view on Web 2.0 and other issues at the Web 2.0 Expo Friday morning. (Credit: Corinne Schulze/CNET News.com) SAN FRANCISCO--If there's one person in the world of Web 2.0 technology--or tech in general--who hasn't yet been skewered by the infamous blogger Fake Steve Jobs , get ready: He's coming for you. In a frenetic...