Stealth Job Site NotchUp Makes Companies Pay To Interview You. that’s right, pay you to interview with them. google and facebook are on the private beta.

Babbel: Help Me, Help You Learn A New Language. techcrunch review on a web startup for learning languages. looks interesting.

Home-Office Life and Its Discontents - New York Times. i’ve heard some people here in seattle say those communal offices can be really hit or miss.

The accidental innovator | Economist.com. on the creator of blogger and twitter. via ram.

Fraxi - a “Ning” For Digg Clones. ning lets you create your own social network on whatever topic you want. fraxi will let you create your own digg site on whatever topic you want.

uTest Gets $1.7M for Crowd-Sourced Quality Assurance. Looks like an interesting product as full-time QA staff isn’t viable for a lot of small/medium-size companies.

The Seattle Start-Up Index. i’ll deem this a clear sign of “bubble”.

Penthouse Buys AdultFriendFinder for $500 million - New York Times. why didn’t i think of that?

Tracing Business Acumen to Dyslexia - New York Times “The study also concluded that dyslexics were more likely than nondyslexics to delegate authority, to excel in oral communication and problem solving and were twice as likely to own two or more businesses.”


here comes another bubble. “blogging from the locker room. babies blogging in the womb”

Third time’s a charm: Tumblr introduces a bunch of new features. really is a cool tool. love the archives stolen from projectionist.

Big Fat 404 Error At Hulu. what’s more interesting to me is that they’re using nginx. i wonder if the thing is on rails?

Operations is a competitive advantage… (Secret Sauce for Startups!). makes an argument for establishing key infrastructure setup/config/etc early on.

When 4-person startup RedSwoosh got in a rut the other year they all went to Thailand for 6 weeks. and got a shit ton of work done. the company got bought out this year by Akamai.

Discovery Acquires ‘How Stuff Works’ For $250 Million say what?

Virgin gets into p2p loans with Virgin Money. this space is getting competitive.

Springwise: Group dining made easy. cool site that helps solve the problem of organizing lots of people for meals or take-out orders.

Mochila - The Media Marketplace. buy and sell rights to articles, photos, and videos. Companies like Reuters and Hearst media are already partners.

Joel Splosky on how side projects can take on a life of their own and how that isn’t always a bad thing.

Springwise: Product placement agency targets video sharing sites. product placement 2.0? does this mean lonelygirl15 will always be eating doritos?