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techcrunch.com, a site I visit mul­ti­ple times a day, to be hon­est I have a pinned tab in Chrome, has been invaded by ads. I read their con­tent for free and for that rea­son I am ok with ads in gen­eral but the added ads out­side the the side­bars are a bit exces­sive. I can’t imag­ine this is some­thing Michael Arring­ton or oth­ers at tech crunch would be excited about. To me it seems like a move made by the new own­ers of Tech Crunch, AOL. Nat­u­rally I under­stand the value of the Tech Crunch home­page and not cap­i­tal­iz­ing on that would be fool­ish, how­ever, being exces­sive is fool­ish as well.

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It’s finally here …

Tobias writes: The white iPhone 4 was some­thing that I once thought I wanted and prob­a­bly would con­sider if I was pur­chas­ing a new i-device how­ever to me it is one more reminder that more than likely the tra­di­tion of the sum­mer release of a new iPhone is over. I know WWDC is still right around the cor­ner but I dont think Apple would release a new device, even if it is just a color change if they were about to announce a new phone. There are rumors of an iPhone 4S, sim­i­lar to the 3GS, as much as I want to say Im not excited, I am! An A5 chip in an iPhone would be pretty cool!

George writes: Yeah I am get­ting the white iPhone from AT&T for my girl­friend. Four years ago I asked her what she wanted and she said, “the white one.” It’s an aes­thetic choice. It’s been worth the wait. Very excited.

If iTunes were Hacked to the extent Sony’s Playsta­tion Net­work was Hacked, there would be blood in the streets, so far no ones freak­ing out. It made  the news on the ticker on CNBC’s Clos­ing Bell.

I hope they are true. I have a Wii that’s now a Net­flix Stream­ing Device in the liv­ing room. The exist­ing device still has poten­tial but Nin­tendo needs a new device to make the devel­op­ment com­mu­nity excited about the Wii again.

We will find out in a month, until then visit Josh, Paul and Nilay at This is my next.

Hey it’s awe­some Apple new prod­ucts just print money. Total rev­enue for the quar­ter is US$24.6 bil­lion, earn­ings per share are over $6, Fred Wilson’s gui­tar gen­tly weeps. Apple has more cash on had than any other com­peti­tor and are now suing their sup­pli­ers, Sam­sung, because that’s how they roll in Cuper­tino. Soon Apple will assume the role of hegemon.

How­ever hid­ing in the wake of Apple Q1 rev­enues and prof­its per share is the dis­as­ter that is Yahoo Search, which sold itself to Microsoft tech­nol­ogy that has under deliv­ered and seen Yahoo loose enough mar­ket share to make them irrel­e­vant. The last com­pany that invested in Microsoft tech­nol­ogy was My ____. (for­merly MySpace.com). the full arti­cle is avail­able at SearchEngineland.com

See, before the fourth quar­ter of 2010, Yahoo used its own ad plat­form. But in late Octo­ber 2010, it began car­ry­ing ads from Microsoft. This was part of the Yahoo-Microsoft deal, where Yahoo largely gave up hav­ing its own search tech­nol­ogy and ad sys­tem, out­sourc­ing this to Microsoft.

As part of the deal, Yahoo agreed to pay Microsoft 12 per­cent of its net search rev­enues. The red line reflects this, net rev­enues that were left after pay­ments went out to Microsoft. This big new chunk of money flow­ing out is what Yahoo has been call­ing “head­wind” that has accel­er­ated its year-over-year growth decline.

The video speaks for itself, Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Jesse Jack­son (D-Illinois), son of Civil Right Leader Jesse Jack­son, makes a syl­lo­gis­tic argu­ment stat­ing two events as causal­ity. Let’s explore the Congressman’s jour­ney through syl­lo­gis­tic rea­son­ing, iPads have lead to the clo­sure of Bor­ders Book Stores, because iPads are so awe­some peo­ple no longer read books. In his own words;

It’s sim­ple: Because every­one can down­load books and news­pa­pers, every­one who works at book­stores (he notes Bor­ders going out of busi­ness) or the pub­lish­ing indus­try, or for text­books, will lose their jobs to the peo­ple mak­ing iPads in China.

Jesse Jack­son Jr. claims the iPad is killing Amer­i­can jobs!

2010 was a great year for tech movies, Incep­tion remains the best film of the year. Yes the King’s Speech was spe­cial and it won the Acad­emy Award, but the film peo­ple will remem­ber, the film that will make the most impact on our cul­ture, sci­ence and tech­nol­ogy is Tron: Legacy.

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