dan tynan on May 22 2009 | Filed under: (anti) social media, Cringley, Infoworld, Privacy, politics
The battle between craigslist and state attorneys general over adult ads is getting whackier by the minute. Pull up a seat and grab some popcorn.
dan tynan on Mar 17 2008 | Filed under: Cringley, Infoworld, politics
At the end of Friday’s blog entry, I posited the question, “Is anything really worth $3000 an hour?” I was referring to Ashley Alexandra Dupre, aka “Kristen,” the hard working and highly compensated escort who took down Eliot Spitzer (in case you were hiding in a cave last week
and missed it). But Cringester J. [...]
dan tynan on Mar 10 2008 | Filed under: Da Web, PC World
In my final installment of interviews, I talk with Anshul Samar, the 14-year-old founder and CEO of Alchemist Empire and inventor of the chemistry card game, Elementeo. Of all the 10 young turks I profiled in my PC World story (“Meet the Whiz Kids: 10 Overachievers Under 21,”) Anshul might be the most [...]
dan tynan on Mar 09 2008 | Filed under: Da Web, PC World
In researching my PCworld.com story on wunderkids, I asked Ashley Qualls (AshBo to her friends) how it felt like to build a site to give away her MySpace designs and turn it into a thriving business. Whateverlife.com now pulls in more than $1 million a year in ad revenue. Did I mention that Ashley [...]
