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Yeap. California’s economy is f*cked. Its economy is in deep doo-doo.
Of course, it makes sense. California led the way for all kinds of economic bubbles and, of course, subsequential crashes: the original gold rush of 1800’s, Silicon Valley’s dot com bubble of the 90’s, and of course, the most recent housing bubble of this decade….

Internet Pawnshop, with its hefty warchest of $1.5m in series A fundraising, has hired us as it’s muscle. Joe and I will be going after those who fraud the pawnshop with very persuasive repayment tactics, such as

“temporarily” modifying their network to redirect all porn requests to Disney.com
borrowing” the user’s browser histories and send them to…

There are 4 types of people at Ad-Tech that waste your time:
1. Pushy CPA network affiliate managers:
What: “we have the highest payouts! exclusive offers! we can monetize ALL types of traffic”
Who: Ex-used car salesmen.

2. Sales ad reps
What: “we have the largest ad inventory around the globe, 600m impressions”
Who: Excessively large breasted women who couldn’t either…

I’m a fan of comedy. And this is probably the funniest shit I’ve seen.
Google employees left the Facebook’s F8 conference because they thought Facebook’s attempt at being just as evil as Google wasn’t “right”:
Louis Chabardes  – Engineer  at Google
Kinda puzzled how Facebook can enable “Instant Personalization” as a default opt-in for 500 million users without…

Yes, Twitter is ending it’s love affair with Bit.ly as its default URL shortening service. Even the bit.ly CEO wrote about how he felt:
We thank Twitter, everyone there, for the kick start it gave bit.ly.   And we certainly hope we helped Twitter during a difficult scaling period — that was the intent.
Right. Let me translate…