api | Kris Smith has read these articles about "api" | www.croncast.comThis is the keyword feed for "api" from my read items in Google Reader. If you would like to search or subscribe to category/keyword rss feeds for items that I have shared with Google Reader visit http://www.croncast.com/c4_reading.phpSo Long, Nick. We'll Miss You.- February 2, 2008 The list of former TechCrunch writers who've gone off to greener pastures grows longer today. Yesterday was Nick Gonzalez's last day at TechCrunch - today he starts a new job at the San Francisco startup Social Media. Nick started at TechCrunch in June 2006 and has worked along side of me, day and night, since then. For many months in early 2007 he was the only person other than me writing for the site. He was a perfect business partner, always steady emotionally as my temper flared at regular..http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/227370518/ The War for the Internet- February 1, 2008 The Internet battle lines have been drawn.On one side will be Microsoft, Yahoo, and Facebook, which has a strategic partnership with the software giant. On the other side, Google and its allies the Open Social protocol, which seeks to develop a common software standard to bridge together MySpace, LinkedIn and Plaxo.Microsoft's chief executive, Steve Ballmer, has long sought a way to counter Google's meteoric rise. For Ballmer, it's not just business. It's personal.In 2005, after Google snared...http://feeds.portfolio.com/~r/portfolio/news/~3/227359371/The-War-for-the-Internet Ballmer's letter to the Yahoo Board Acquisitions- February 1, 2008 Microsoft just offered to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion or $31 a share. That's a 62 percent increase over yesterday's close. The offer came as a letter from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to Yahoo's board. Here's your copy.Dear Members of the Board: I am writing on behalf of the Board of Directors of Microsoft to make a proposal for a business combination of Microsoft and Yahoo!. Under our proposal, Microsoft would acquire all of the outstanding shares of Yahoo! common stock for per share...http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/valleywag/full/~3/227239760/ballmers-letter-to-the-yahoo-board Twitter Woes Continue, Splits with Joyent- February 1, 2008 Microblogging service Twitter has had more than its fair share of technical difficulties lately. Scheduled maintenance caused the service to go dark last night , but the downtime stretched into the morning, and the cutesy error message seem to be everpresent on its front page. (Though, at press time, it does seem to be back in working form.) Twitter fans, like blogger Dave Winer, chafed at the lack of reliability of their preferred communication medium. Twitter has stated that the...http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/01/twitter-woes-co.html |