Marcus Nelson, co-founder of customer service startup UserVoice , left his role as head of social media at Salesforce.com back in April to start a company called Addvocate — and now he’s starting to talk about what he’s up to. When I met with Nelson yesterday, he gave me a quick demo of the initial product (currently in private alpha testing) and talked about his broader vision

Editor’s note:   Nate Redmond is the Managing Partner of  Rustic Canyon Partners . The firm was an early investor in cloud-based gaming platform Gaikai , leading its second round and participating alongside NEA and Benchmark in a subsequent one

The tech news cycle is a desperate bitch, as we’ve brought up  before; A brief rundown of yesterday’s bitchmeme sparked by a mere tweet from my colleague MG Siegler once again proves how absurd it is. “I used to love to plant one really weird bit of random information (sometimes even false) into stories to catch the rewrites,” MG wrote  in response to developer Marco Arment’s concise analysis of the insatiable tech news beast. As fast as a fractal, the tweet was quickly turned into a blog post , Betabeat’s Adrianne Jeffries asserted that MG “couldn’t be trusted,” based on his own admission that he couldn’t be trusted?! What’s shocking is that Jeffries didn’t think once about the Liar’s Paradox: What happens when a pathological liar tells you that they’re a pathological liar

Mozilla is not “stopping” Thunderbird development, it has just decided that: “continued innovation on Thunderbird is not the best use of our resources given our ambitious organizational goals.” And it’s pulling people off the project. But it’s not stopping? Right

The flight is boarding and you are in a rush. You get on the plane.  At 10,000 feet,  you reach into your bag

Twitter has just implemented a massive set of improvements to search , allowing you to search just within tweets of people you follow, autocomplete, and related results including similar hashtags and usernames.

It’s something of a 21st Century nightmare — headlines are declaring that come Monday morning, thousands of people could wake up to a startling lack of Internet access all because of a crafty bit of malware. How chilling! Well, it would be more chilling if people haven’t had plenty of advance warning.

Here we go: tomorrow we’re heading to the offices of Creative Coast, 15 West York Street for our first ever Savannah meet-up. We’re excited to see what Savannah has to offer. You can RSVP here

Photo editing apps are pretty popular, which is pretty obvious when you see things like Facebook’s $1 billion acquisition of Instagram . But there’s a ton of them, so sorting through the various capabilities can be taxing

The libertarian super-duo, Congressmen Ron and Rand Paul, launched an “Internet Freedom” campaign  this week that has come out swinging against net neutrality, branding it as a clever attempt at more government intervention. “The Technology Revolution” manifesto decries any attempt to regulate private Internet service providers as an afront to liberty, yet seems to ignore that powerful telecommunications monopolies can wield as much coercion over the future of the internet as the government