{"id":569337,"date":"2010-05-18T16:44:29","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T20:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=120883"},"modified":"2010-05-18T16:44:29","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T20:44:29","slug":"what-you-should-be-reading-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/569337","title":{"rendered":"What You Should Be Reading Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every weekend, I try to collate some of the best posts and articles I&#8217;ve read on the web and share them with all of you. For the past few weeks I have been remiss in my duties, for reasons explained earlier. So today I wanted to share some of the links and news stories that I think are worth your time.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kara.allthingsd.com\/20100518\/yahoo-snaps-up-associated-content-for-90-million-to-counter-aol-and-demand-media\/\">Yahoo is buying Associated Content<\/a> for $90 million in an effort to compete with AOL and Demand Media. It seems <a href=\"http:\/\/ycorpblog.com\/2010\/05\/18\/associatedcontent\/\">Yahoo is back on a content kick<\/a> after having a change of heart.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2010\/05\/18\/google-to-launch-amazon-s3-competitor-google-storage-at-io\/\">Google may launch<\/a> a competitor to Amazon&#8217;s S3 storage service at Google I\/O. This from a company that has struggled to deliver Google Drive. Amazing.<\/li>\n<li>In an &#8220;Oh-no-they-didn&#8217;t&#8221; move, the National Venture Capital Association compared venture capital to tobacco. <a href=\"http:\/\/paul.kedrosky.com\/archives\/2010\/05\/carried_interes.html\">Paul Kedrosky rightfully skewers<\/a> them for their self-serving behavior.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/18\/science\/18tier.html?src=twt&amp;twt=nytimesbooks\">The future&#8217;s so bright you gotta wear shades<\/a>. No seriously, there&#8217;s a lot of doomsday talk going around these days but a new book, &#8220;The Rational Optimist,&#8221; by Dr. Matt Ridley argues that the best is yet to come.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/608396721\">Instapaper creator Marco Arment argues<\/a> that the iPad doesn&#8217;t have to do everything. I agree.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.akismet.com\/2010\/04\/22\/state-of-web-spam\/\">The State of Web Spam<\/a>&#8230;actually it&#8217;s more like the state of blog spam, but close enough. Great stats from the Akismet crew.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=gigaom.com&#038;blog=1149864&#038;post=120883&#038;subd=gigaom&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>\n\t<a href='http:\/\/gigaom.com\/sponsor\/alcatel-lucent\/?utm_source=RSS&amp;utm_medium=Banner&amp;utm_campaign=RSS%2BLucent'><br \/>\n\t\t<img src='http:\/\/a.gigaom.com\/feed-injector\/img\/lucent-2010-05-17.gif' alt='Alcatel-Lucent NextGen Communications Spotlight &mdash; Learn More &raquo;' border='0' \/><br \/>\n\t<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=V0Z-9T9LIG4:V-o7dFfoAjg:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=V0Z-9T9LIG4:V-o7dFfoAjg:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=V0Z-9T9LIG4:V-o7dFfoAjg:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=V0Z-9T9LIG4:V-o7dFfoAjg:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=V0Z-9T9LIG4:V-o7dFfoAjg:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=V0Z-9T9LIG4:V-o7dFfoAjg:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?a=V0Z-9T9LIG4:V-o7dFfoAjg:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/OmMalik?i=V0Z-9T9LIG4:V-o7dFfoAjg:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/OmMalik\/~4\/V0Z-9T9LIG4\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every weekend, I try to collate some of the best posts and articles I&#8217;ve read on the web and share them with all of you. For the past few weeks I have been remiss in my duties, for reasons explained earlier. 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