Silicon Alley Insider (Thursday)

Pud Kaplan no longer works at Blippy, the startup he founded on the idea that users to might like to share their credit card purchases with the world the way they share their tweets with Twitter and photos with Flickr.

(The idea sounds cra...

TechCrunch (Friday)
Email newsletters may be ready for a comeback. The fact is that despite the communications mechanism being old-school, publishers can put in less effort to get more views in an inbox than on a blog. AOL exec Bob Pittman has bet big on email newsletters, fu...

TechCrunch (Monday)
Here's an interesting one: a new startup aims to help retailers replace traditional promotions and incentives such as coupons and discounts with virtual goods and virtual currencies for a wide range of social games and networks. The American/French compa...

Silicon Alley Insider (Friday)

Most web publishers rely heavily on Google, and that's not a good thing. It can be very dangerous to rely so heavily on one player.

You may recall from the year 2000 when Looksmart was one of the hottest search engines on the web. The reas...

Venturebeat (Saturday)

On Friday, we reported that Blippy, a social network for shoppers cofounded by Fucked Company and AdBrite founder Philip “Pud” Kaplan, had accidentally published some of its members’ credit card numbers into Google. Kaplan was quick to...

Venturebeat (Tuesday)

In response to my post yesterday, “Book industry nears its Napster moment,” copyright protection company Attributor pointed me to a recent report in which the company claimed that unauthorized copies of books have already cost American publi...