This just in – this morning Disney Interactive has let go of eighty employees, all but one of whom drove to work. Disney Online (aka DOL) seems to have made the decision to lower its overhead before it moves to its new offices in Glendale.
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Apple-Google Squabble Spreads to LA
The Chiat/Day relationship with Steve Jobs and Apple is nothing short of legendary. That legend goes something like this: Chiat was hired by Apple to create the (also legendary) Ridley Scott-directed, $1 million, only-aired-once-cause-it’s-so-goddamn-special 1984 commercial that introduced the Macintosh line of computers during the Super Bowl. When Jobs was forced out of left Apple, he usedContinue reading “Apple-Google Squabble Spreads to LA”
Santa Monica Content Provider Goes Public
Demand Media, an internet how-to and general information provider with headquarters in Santa Monica, went public Wednesday to the tune of some $1.5 billion. The more time goes by, the more companies I was salivating over working at last year turn out to look pretty crummy. In 2010 they invited me to interview for theContinue reading “Santa Monica Content Provider Goes Public”
Assange vs. Zuckerberg
Assange vs. Zuckerberg on SNL | HOPE/GLORY BLOG.
Photos of Wikileaks New Home = Nuclear Fallout Shelter
Wikileaks new home is a Swedish data center that once served as a fallout shelter built to survive a nuclear winter. Details below, via pingdom.com. Originally a nuclear bunker: The data center is housed in what was originally a military bunker and nuclear shelter during the Cold War era. The facility still has the codeContinue reading “Photos of Wikileaks New Home = Nuclear Fallout Shelter”
QuantumTom 