FriendFeed killed Twitter, started World War 2 and eats babies

Our favorite satirist Fake Steve Gillmor comes out of retirement for a special post on the dangers of FriendFeed. I'm back bitches, did you miss me? I've been heavily denuded for this past year, basking in the grammatical ... continue

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

Twitter T-Shirts and more from the Inquisitr Store

There comes a time in the life of most sites that self indulgence and a belief that people will happily by crappy T-Shirts with your sites logo on them drives you towards launching a T-shirt store of ... 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

Vale eWeek’s BlogSeeker

eWeek's BlogSeeker blog tracking service, a service nearly everybody reading this post would have never heard of (and herein lies the problem) is apparently no more. Following a tip, I visited BlogSeeker to find that nothing on the ... 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