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Lipstick and Love over vodka shots
Our occasional contributor Fake Steve Gillmor returns... For the last few weeks, The Inquisitr's tech coverage has become so viscerally partisan that you could sense that the coverage was coming close to threatening the fundamental tenets of particle ... continue
For I have risen, and there’s water on Yahoo
From our regular contributor, Fake Steve Gillmor Now the Lord has fulfilled his word which he spoke; for I have risen in place of the redirect and sit on the throne of anecdotes, as the lord promised, and ... continue
A failure to communicate: the closure of TechCrunchIT
From our regular contributor, Fake Steve Gillmor As the Russians battled into the heart of Berlin, Hitler decided to end it all. TechCrunch IT is no more. Killed by the hand of god before it could reach its ... continue
Running, Jumping, Falling Over
From our regular contributor, Fake Steve Gillmor It has been over a month since my first column, and the parachutes are still floating at the Beijing Olympics. Juniper Networks sponsors the parachutes, falling over in 24 hours before ... continue
Microsoft Magic Mushroom Bus
From our regular contributor, Fake Steve Gillmor Twitter has no chance of being trusted with anything, not even for the formation of the citizen militia that will rule after the next glorious revolution. Microsoft Mesh on Toast, that's ... continue
The Spy Who Loved Me
From our regular contributor, Fake Steve Gillmor On demand computing has seen some significant challenges since the 18th century. From Amazon rainforests to Rackspace, Gnipping at iPhone software and hardware rollouts, strategies that require more than Art of ... continue
Deconstructing The Twitter
From our special correspondent, Fake Steve Gillmor. Today we get the latest full ongoing back-filling explanation of Twitter. The idea that Twitter was created in seven days by FriendFeed is one of several XMPP bone scans currently being ... continue
Independence Day
From our special correspondent Fake Steve Gillmor. Tomorrow we celebrate July 4th, and then shortly thereafter the deer will be game again. Fireworks will explode in FriendFeed donation bins and resonate around the now deafened enterprise. We will ... continue
The Smoking Chimney
From our regular columnist Fake Steve Gillmor Feldman and Israel made up this week. It was getting awkward for the lord, who in between licks of a lollypop was busy plotting world domination. Microsoft without Gates is like ... continue
Free As In German Tuna Fish
Our occasional contributor Fake Steve Gillmor enlightens us on the latest in IT. Note for subscribers this will be the last FSG post in the Tech stream, with future posts being filled in Odd. Gordon Ramsay took the ... continue
Why Twitter Is Better Than FriendFeed
This special post comes to us from new occasional contributor Fake Steve Gillmor As the space program tries to recapture the spirit of the 60's by digging for Martians, a tiny speck messages earth through the psychedelic goodness ... continue