{"id":1597,"date":"2011-10-31T23:55:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T07:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/?p=1597"},"modified":"2023-01-08T00:52:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T08:52:44","slug":"week-of-102411-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/31\/week-of-102411-roundup\/","title":{"rendered":"Week of 10\/24\/11 – Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tech News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was another dismal week for Netflix<\/a>. The stock dropped 35% after announcing that they lost 800,000 subscribers and projecting that fourth-quarter earnings would be below expectations. Henry Blodget (Business Insider) says: Sorry, but this Netflix collapse is overdone<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HP announced that it will keep it’s PC division but there was speculation that they would shut down the webOS division<\/a>. The head of HP’s PC division this was an unfounded rumor<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Google announced an update to Google TV<\/a> and there were rumors of a Siri-powered, integrated Apple TV<\/a> coming in 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New York Times published a very touching eulogy of Steve Jobs<\/a> written by his sister Mona Simpson. A must-read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Death didn’t happen to Steve, he achieved it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

– Mona Simpson, A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

People aren’t happy<\/a> about Google’s plans to discontinue the social features<\/a> of Google Reader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Flipboard<\/a>, the popular news\/social reader application for tablets, is about to get some competition<\/a> from Google (Propeller) and Yahoo (Livestand).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Benchmark-backed Nextdoor launches<\/a> a private social network for neighborhoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Y Combinator held their Startup School. Mark Zuckerberg, Paul Graham, and Marc Andreessen all spoke. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mark Zuckerberg interview at Y Combinator Startup School<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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