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| Jul 31, 2015 | Boston’s best CMO fired from HubSpot: allegedly tried to obtain Dan Lyons’ tell-all book | Two months ago we surveyed over 2,000 Boston marketers for our CMO-only conference in Boston, looking for the best local chief marketing officer. HubSpot’s Mike Volpe won hands down.
Above: Mike Volpe
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| May 27, 2015 | Gigaom resurrected: 6 media companies that came back from the dead | Deceased technology blog Gigaom rose from the dead to deliver a final message: It has been acquired by a little-known entity called the Knowingly Corp and will be relaunching this August.
Gigaom is far from the first publication to be reviv... |
| May 27, 2015 | Gigaom resurrected: 6 media companies that came back from the dead | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Deceased technology blog Gigaom rose from the dea... |
| Mar 19, 2013 | ReadWrite Editor-In-Chief Dan Lyons, A.K.A. Fake Steve Jobs, Is Leaving For Hubspot | Dan Lyons, the editor-in-chief at tech blog ReadWrite, is leaving for a position at marketing software company HubSpot. We heard the news from knowledgeable sources, and the part about Lyons’ departure for HubSpot was confirmed by a SAY Med... |
| Feb 5, 2013 | Michael Dell Goes To Hell | One of the things for which Michael Dell will be best remembered is a famous quip he made about Apple back in the 1990s when Apple was struggling to stay alive and Steve Jobs had just returned to turn the place around. Asked what he’d do if... |
| Oct 22, 2012 | SAY Media Rebrands ReadWriteWeb As “ReadWrite”, Redesigns, Hires Dan “Fake Steve Jobs” Lyons As Editor In Chief | I’m a fan of ReadWriteWeb, always have been, but other than not being able to pronounce the blog’s name, I’ve always appreciated the technical and detailed analysis coming out of the brand. SAY Media agreed and acquired it, and the property... |
| Oct 22, 2012 | Editor’s Note: Welcome To The New ReadWrite | Welcome to the new ReadWrite. Today we are relaunching this legendary tech site with a new name, a new design and a new approach. I’m thrilled to be joining ReadWrite as the site’s new editor-in-chief, and to be teaming up with Fredric Paul... |
| Aug 5, 2010 | Founderspotting: Steve Jobs, He's Just Like Us! | As in sometimes it’s hard for him to get a table without a prior reservation … Foodspotting founder Alexa Andrzejewski snapped the above pic of Apple demi-god Steve Jobs outside of San Francisco hotspot Flour + Water over the weekend.
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| Jun 28, 2010 | iPhone owners angered by Steve Jobs' response to reception issue | Remember Steve Jobs’ advice regarding the iPhone 4’s reported reception issues – it’s all your fault – relayed via an email from the Apple CEO himself (yes, one of those emails). Well, perhaps unsurprisingly, it hasn’t gone down well with U... |
| May 25, 2010 | 10 reasons I dumped iPhone 3GS for Nexus One | On April 24, I put aside my Google Nexus One and purchased a white 32GB iPhone 3GS from AT&T. Two days ago, I returned the Apple smartphone and cancelled the service. My reasons should interest anyone considering AT&T and iPhone bet... |
| May 15, 2010 | Steve Jobs to Valleywag at 2:20 AM: “Why are you so bitter?” | Valleywag editor Ryan Tate, irked by an iPad ad, drunkmailed Apple CEO Steve Jobs just after 9:30 last night. To Tate’s shock and delight, Jobs argued back and forth with him until 2:20 AM in four rounds of messages, reproduced below.
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| Apr 19, 2010 | Viacom's Epix Lands National Distribution Deal With Dish Network | Epix, the movie and entertainment streaming network that works across your TV, computer, and mobile phone, has landed another cable deal: Dish Network. In the past few months, the network also landed a deal with Cox Communications, Charter ... |
| Apr 4, 2010 | Fake Steve Jobs on the iPad, conflict of interest, and Apple's draconian PR tactics | It’s no secret that there weren’t many iPads given out ahead of time. Apple is, of course, notorious for their extreme secrecy and the hammer that inevitably comes down on leakers and embargo breakers. They have the press in the hollow of t... |
| Mar 29, 2010 | Fake Steve Jobs Blog Likely To Shut Down | It took a year for anyone to figure out that Forbes (now Newsweek) writer Dan Lyons was the guy behind the Fake Steve Jobs blog. Now, a couple of years later, the blog is still going strong. And it remains very, very funny.
Now Lyons’ succe... |
| Mar 26, 2010 | The Connection Between Fake Steve Jobs And Walt Mosspuppet | The rumor circulating around Silicon Valley yesterday: Walt Mosspuppet, the foul-mouthed and funny puppet version of the Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg, is actually the brainchild of Newsweek’s Dan Lyons, AKA Fake Steve Jobs. Lyons, sa... |
| Mar 16, 2010 | Fake Steve Jobs, Larry Charles Working On EPIX Silicon Valley Comedy Series | Dan Lyons, the Newsweek writer, book author and creator of the Fake Steve Jobs persona, is currently writing a pilot script for a comedy series on Silicon Valley for entertainment channel and movie streaming network EPIX.
Larry Charles of S... |
| Jan 26, 2010 | The Tablet Could Spur A Media Revolution, But It Will Be Out Of Apple's Hands | Here we are, on the eve of the Tablet’s unveiling, with only hours to go before we find out just how ambitious Apple’s latest creation is. Countless articles have been written about how the forthcoming Tablet could be the savior of old medi... |
| Jan 25, 2010 | Sun CEO Schwartz said to be resigning | Sun Microsystems chief executive Jonathan Schwartz will be leaving the company after its 7.4 billion-with-a-b-dollars acquisition by Oracle is completed. No surprise, but All Things Digital reporter John Packzowski claims Sun insiders have ... |
| Jan 10, 2010 | Googlle Gets A Sexy New Logo; Remains Sketchy | Last week, we covered Googlle opening a school in India. Googlle, not to be confused with Google. Obviously, this was a site and service set up to trick people, as they were even ripping-off Google’s logo. Well guess what? After the publici... |
| Dec 27, 2009 | Relax, You Can Still Buy An iPhone In New York City. Just Not Online. | If you live in the New York City metropolitan area, as I do, and try to buy an iPhone from AT&T’s website, you will probably get the same message I did after I entered my zipcode: “Sorry this package is not available in your area.” Appa... |
| Dec 19, 2009 | 'Operation Chokehold' shows the social media mob has influence | "Operation Chokehold" has come and gone, with no sign it even put AT&T in a headlock. But with so many people complaining of service already so spotty, could anyone really tell the difference short of network failure? For AT&a... |
| Dec 18, 2009 | As AT&T Complains, People Notice That It Has Decreased Infrastructure Investments, But Wireless Revenue Is Way Up | Don’t mess with a fake CEO. That’s the lesson of the week. At the beginning of the week, “Fake Steve Jobs” (aka Dan Lyons) got a lot of attention for his rather funny fake phone call with AT&T boss Randall Stephenson where he tells him ... |
| Dec 18, 2009 | So, Is Operation Chokehold Melting AT&T In Your Area? | It’s just after 12 o’clock here on the left coast, which means Operation Chokehold should now be in full effect. What that means (if anything at all) is still up in the air — which is why we’re turning to you for a status report.
For the un... |
| Dec 18, 2009 | As 'Operation Chokehold' approaches, readers sound off on AT&T service | What started out as a joke, or perhaps simple mad rantings, has turned into something bigger: "Operation Chokehold," which is scheduled for 3 p.m. ET today. Dan Lyons, writing as Fake Steve Jobs, has called on AT&T users to sh... |
| Dec 18, 2009 | Can 'Operation Chokehold' be stopped? Will you join the AT&T DoS? | The strangeness spinning around AT&T's quality of service is starting to make Christmas feel like Halloween. It's scary and tantalizingly inviting to observe. It's like watching a train wreck or freeway pileup in horror and awe. Does Ap... |
| Dec 16, 2009 | Satirical blog post may incite real AT&T protest on Friday | For the better part of three years, author Dan Lyons has run a popular blog under the nom de guerre "Fake Steve Jobs." It began as a satire of Apple culture and was written from the perspective of the Apple CEO, but its tone chang... |
| Dec 16, 2009 | AT&T to Fake Steve: Go on, punk, make my day | It’s he said/she said time, where maybe like Fake Steve is the She and maybe like AT&T is the he. So like Fake Steve was all like “Let’s send nasty texts about AT&T! And then we’ll mess with them on Friday.” And then AT&T is all... |
| Dec 13, 2009 | The Unlocked Phone Movement Gets A Big Boost | Mobile phones here in the US are sold by carriers and often locked down so that the device and the network are hard wired to each other. The iPhone is the best known example of this technique. I've written a lot about this bundling of devic... |
| Dec 13, 2009 | Dear AT&T: If your network is so great, why don't you marry it? | The Gruber does it again. In a point by point analysis of Randall Stross’ article about AT&T not really sucking and actually being great, he points out a few valuable concepts. First, if the iPhone sucks so much on AT&T’s network, w... |
| Dec 11, 2009 | It's Raining FAIL. Widespread AT&T Outages Reported In San Francisco. | Today started out like any other, which is to say, the AT&T connection on my cellphone was somewhat working, depending on where I was positioned in my apartment. It sucks, but things like this are a fact of life that AT&T customers ... |
| Nov 9, 2009 | Virtual Goods, Scams, Investigative Reporting And The Media | For many years, we’ve been quite skeptical of any business model in virtual worlds/social networks that rely on “buying virtual goods.” That’s because these are all based on artificial scarcities, and as we all know (hopefully, by now), rel... |
| Oct 22, 2009 | Fake Steve Jobs on the Windows 7 launch | Today’s the first day of the rest of Microsoft’s life. Windows 7 is officially available. Nearly everyone loves the OS expect for one notable person: Fake Steve Jobs. Here’s part of what he has to say about the new OS.
Do you feel it in the... |
| Oct 20, 2009 | Apple to release a crap-ton of new products today? | Today could be a big Apple day. John Gruber and Dan Lyons both think that we might just see a plethora of new Apple products today. Exciting, I know. These new models would include new iMacs, plastic Macbooks, Mac Minis, 2nd generation Migh... |
| Oct 9, 2009 | Video: Windows Mobile Turns Twitter Into Party Boy | Earlier this afternoon Fake Steve Jobs took one look at Microsoft’s new Windows Mobile commercial and wrote, “Dancing Twitter icons do not translate into cutting-edge advertising.”
I don’t know. I think the commercial is pretty good, but on... |
| Oct 7, 2009 | US Chamber of Commerce sore about Apple’s sudden departure | reader comments 98 with 30 posters participating, including story author
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| Oct 6, 2009 | WordPress.com automates PicApp images for bloggers | For many bloggers, finding and uploading images for their posts are a pain in the neck. WordPress.com, the free blogging site that claims 7.5 million users, has added a way for its users to embed images — such as this one of Apple’s Steve J... |
| Sep 22, 2009 | 5 O’Clock Roundup: Yahoo’s new search, Snot Leopard, Tom Perkins closes 60th-floor condo | Yahoo’s new search engine reviewed by Search Engine Land — “There’s nothing radical or game changing,” writes Greg Sterling.
Poking around Yahoo made me realize that despite myself, I use Bing once in a while instead of Google. Can Yahoo ge... |
| Sep 21, 2009 | The real Fake Linus Torvalds has been selected | The jig is up, and the Silver Penguin award has been presented to the winner of the Fake Linus Torvalds competition! Before you learn who won, though, you need to know who was actually playing. As you recall, four famous people were pretend... |
| Sep 6, 2009 | Losing Its Religion: The New York Times Compromises | Two things that would end hypocrisy and make the world a better place: Priests should be allowed to get married, and the New York Times should update its Ethics Policy.
The venerable and vulnerable newspaper finally starts talking about the... |