"Every modern recession includes a media séance about how horrible things are and how much worse they will be, but there have never been so many ways for the fear to leak in. The same digital dynamics that drove the irrational exuberance — and marketed the loans to help it happen — are now driving the downside in unprecedented ways."

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"Williams said, "We're looking at Q1 for revenues." This is a change from the original, pre-economic meltdown plan. "The original plan was to focus on revenues in 2010. That's no longer the case, since I don't want to raise money in 2009." "

"Like many others, I started to unfollow people who were tweeting about Alltop on behalf of Guy. And Kevin and I aren’t the only ones who find this annoying. Here are a few reactions pulled from this Twitter search."