The Good Stuff in the Seller

How many more social media monitoring startups will we see before we start seeing less? http://bit.ly/4J7LG4

Man marries his virtual girlfriend, and then takes her and the Nintendo DS that she lives in to Guam! http://bit.ly/8HXPyJ

Latency REALLY matters now: Google to begin penalizing slow websites in SEO results http://bit.ly/6FheED

They can and they will: Starting today, Facebook will use your photo in ads unless u change ur settings http://bit.ly/4ACMgc

Scouting note: Harbaugh nevr goes 4 a 2pt conv. when offense is on sidelines - Cal Bears win epic Big Game http://bit.ly/7yKDwC

Google’s curious stand against equipment makers wanting to promote YouTube, how unGoogle-like http://bit.ly/7tlmwp

Interesting model on business sustainability, and using Zynga as an example (via @rafer) http://bit.ly/8UyIBx

Its a “horizontal web” holiday season! RT @BestBuyRemix: 4.2M total API calls yest., ~double from day B4. Holiday traffic ramping.

Realtime #Crunchup demos: not great, esp not-very-realtime videos & most apps yawners. Still early days for real-time…

2 steps fwd, 1 step back re: ads on social networks - wonder how big brands view this http://bit.ly/47GUPk

The man is smokin’: Tim Lincecum wins back-2-back Cy Young awards http://bit.ly/25ieid

Start w/big co. name. Add “cloud”, “API”, mix w/ “leadership” & say “as a service”. Presto: press release. http://bit.ly/3AeiCI

Good news Cal Bears hoops fans: we are NOT on the cover of Sports Illustrated (but Washington is) http://bit.ly/2ktiEf