Local officials, fearing the loss of thousands of jobs and a considerable amount of prestige as a tech center, are scrambling to placate the disgruntled businesses. But the city is also struggling with a budget deficit that may require firing hundreds of public employees to bring it under control. via Prominent Start-Ups in San Francisco [...]

The last bubble burst really hit the people hard. And this time, because its had more time to inflate and because its built around user generated content, the failures will have a wider impact, again on people, and on the web.   via Scripting News: Is it a bubble? It matters if we think it [...]

The real story of the completely unethical way that they are going about achieving that success. In short, for users who won’t pay cash, a wide variety of “offers” are available where they can get in-game currency in exchange for lead gen-type offers. Most of these offers are bad for consumers because it confusingly gets [...]