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Quoted: You can buy flights from SEA to SFO for $39 if you're booking two weeks in advance and can fly on Tuesdays.  And there's wifi on the plane. That's awesome and deserves some blog love!

Quoted: Do you remember Faves.com? Don't feel bad if you shook your head "no." This older social bookmarking site formerly called Blue Dot was built way back in 2005, a couple of years after Delicious came on the scene and at a time when social bookmarking was still a hot new trend. After having raised multiple rounds of funding throughout the years, Faves

Quoted: In 2008 Google HR set up a private Google Group to ask former employees why they left the company. We’ve been forwarded what appears to be authentic posts to the thread by a number of ex-Googlers, which we reprint below minus identifying information other than their first names. The thread shows a brutal honesty about what it’s like to work at Google ...

Quoted: Tesla Motors, the maker of the high-performance Roadster, has become something of a symbol for budding electric car industry. The many other startups in the space, then, should sit up and take notice of its latest move: A takeover of the CEO position by its chairman and chief investor, Elon Musk, the closure of an office near Detroit, and the layoff

Quoted: Whether you love Facebook’s new redesign or hate it, one thing is clear: The changes have not killed the developer platform, contrary to some reports. It is certainly true that some applications have lost substantial traffic, but not nearly all of them. For example, the SocialCalendar application, which offers features for coordinating your social life

Quoted: Microsoft wants in on cloud computing. At the company's Professional Developer's Conference today, Microsoft's chief software architect Ray Ozzie announced Windows Azure, its "internet-scale cloud services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers." Windows Azure will only be open as a technology preview to a very limited number of developers for

Quoted: Social networking site Friendster just announced that it now supports applications built on competing network Facebook’s popular platform. Friendster already supports apps built for OpenSocial (the Google led effort to make all social sites compatible), and the announcement is significant because signals that Friendster is the first network to support

Quoted: You’d think that a groundbreaking “wish list” application from Amazon would be a success. It enabled the sharing of individual wish lists and direct purchasing without leaving the confines of Facebook. But Amazon’s wish list app, called Giver, launched earlier this year, failed to gain significant traction and is no longer in operation. The problem

Quoted: This will be a small post, but I stumbled onto some interesting data that I thought I’d share. As a background, we’re currently searching for a great C++ dev to work at our startup here in Seattle. I decided to do a bit of research to see other job postings, compensation packages, etc. I was startled to find that (in Seattle) C#, C++, and Java jobs