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Business

Not bad for a bunch of kids

The Tribune: “Morse and Google would not confirm a purchase price, but according to website techcrunch.com, two unnamed sources pegged the acquisition price between a low seven figures and $10 million.”

Two founders, six total team members, just graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and now you’ve sold your company for a reported $10 million dollars to Google. What are you going to do next?

Bravo, hats off, congratulations, etc, etc. This is pretty unbelievable awesome news.

The only downside is we lose a startup to Google. Cal Poly has produced more great talent that’s now moving up the state to Mountain View to join “The Google.” More brain drain.

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fun Movies

About Dwarves

...and my axe.Time: “But TIME is the first to bring you this image of two characters from the film, dwarves named Balin and Dwalin.”

My brother should enjoy reading this. He was a Dwarf in a former life and carried a huge battle axe.

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MLOTW

Movie line of the week

Cut, cut, cut!Good morning movie liners, are you ready? Good. Here’s the line, good luck.

To my brother Budd, the only man I ever loved, Bill.

Ok, quick, what movie! Send your guesses here.

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fun

@Fahrni vs. @JFahrni

I’m not so sure I like the outcome of this? I’m a gamer and I drink a bottle and my brother is a techie? (He’s a techie, but you know what I mean) Strange, but fun.

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Business

Lodsys, destroying software one patent at a time.

Beware of Trolls.Craig Hockenberry [via Twitter]: “Doing cross promotion in your app? Lodsys has a patent for that, too:”

Craig links to this post on the touchArcade forums. Lovely. Basically if you have a link in an application that promotes an upgrade to the paid version, or a different application all together, you’re in violation of a Lodsys patent.

What does that mean for links on web pages? What if I have a link from the web page of Product A to Product B? That is promotion, or as the letter states “elicited perception”, right? Does this frivolous patent only apply to mobile?

I also love the closing paragraph of the letter, it just drips with sarcasm.

“I trust that this has clarified the matter and that you now understand that we are not mistaken. We would like to enter into meaningful discussion with you about an appropriate license that is scaled to your use of our patented invention. We look forward to doing that as soon as possible.”

Makes me want to punch someone in the face.

Darned trolls.

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Life

How Big Brother of You

Reuters: “(Reuters) – U.S. law-enforcement agencies are increasingly obtaining warrants to search Facebook, often gaining detailed access to users’ accounts without their knowledge.”

The more you know.

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fun

U.S. Family Income Growth

Growth of the U.S. Family

Via United for a Fair Economy.

Check out the United for a Fair Economy Weblog for more great infographics.

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MLOTW

Movie line of the week answer

Good morning, I’m a day late, but better late than never, right? We’re on the road to a wedding in Oregon and I haven’t had time to sit down behind a computer until now.

We have a winner! A newcomer, Cindy Veneris. Congratulations Cindy!

The correct answer is…

Jaws

See you next Thursday.

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MLOTW

Movie line of the week

Roll film!Good morning movie lines, my Mac is about to die, I need to hurry!

Here’s the line…

That’s some bad hat, Harry.

Ok, quick, what movie! Send your guesses here.

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Life

Happy Independence Day!

Signing the Declaration of Independence