Links 9-7-11: No more Arrington?, Krug on Bitcoin, Sextortion
CNN Money is reporting that Michael Arrington, possibly in reaction to his call for TechCrunch’s editorial independence, has been fired from AOL
Links 3-31-11: Blogger’s new look, A tell-all telephone, Microsoft v Google
Today Microsoft asked the same European regulators who deemed them them anti-competitive to consider Google’s behavior monopolistic.
Links 3-30-11: +1, Project Thunderdome, Amazon’s consumer cloud, Against gamification
The big news of the day is Google’s partial launch of +1, a very geeky answer to the Like or Retweet button. In a move inspired by forum websites of the late 90s, Google is testing a product that allows you to “+1” search results.
Links 3-8-11: Facebook vs Netflix, NPR executive on tape, Unfollow Charlie Sheen day
Charlie Sheen is hiring a social media intern. Apparently there are already a lot of applicants. Not sure how that job is going to go.