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Buffer CEO Joel Gascoigne's blog

Buffer CEO Joel Gascoigne’s blogJoel Gascoigne is a co-founder and the CEO of Buffer, the most powerful tool for sharing and scheduling stuff across multiple social networks. It’s a great service and one I use almost daily. But more importantly, Joel’s thoughtful blog is a great way to read …

Pivot while there's still time

Pivot while there’s still timeBobby Ghoshal, co-founder of the now-defunct social news app Flud: A year after pivoting to the enterprise we were out of business […] because we ran out of money and investors didn’t have enough data to make a decision to jump on board. I buy this reasoning. I …

HootSuite Buys Seesmic

HootSuite Buys SeesmicRobins Wauters interviewed Seesmic founder Loïc Le Meur at The Next Web today on his company’s sale to rival HootSuite. I have always thought Seesmic was the best multi-profile app for Twitter and Facebook on mobile, and I always preferred their web interface to Hootsuite’s. …

NoWait protects restaurants from the wrath of restless customers

NoWait protects restaurants from the wrath of restless customersRebecca Grant, writing at VentureBeat: Restaurants can use this iPad app to keep track of available tables and alert customers with a text message when their table is ready. This sounds like technology with the potential to go far …

What are some things I'd be shocked to learn about the outside world?

What are some things I’d be shocked to learn about the outside world?Susan Wu, on Quora: All products inherit the values of their creators and have a sort of corresponding ‘morality.’ When you create an algorithm, it’s optimizing for something — it might be that you think “saving time” is a …

Changes coming in Version 1.1 of the Twitter API

Changes coming in Version 1.1 of the Twitter APITwitter’s Michael Sippey posted an update at their Developers Blog yesterday announcing that the company will: essentially be crippling many of the third-party apps that got the company where it is today; and severely bloating and degrading the user …

Arrington and Siegler out at PandoDaily, don't bother trying to comment about it

As of Monday, April 9 the shareholders of PandoMedia voted to remove Michael Arrington as a director. Given the change in relationship we feel it’s inappropriate for CrunchFund’s partners Michael Arrington and MG Siegler to continue contributing to PandoDaily. via pandodaily.com Why? Arrington has …