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[1 Dec 2007 | No Comment | ]

With all the hubbub over Facebook Beacon, we thought it was time to finally release our hard hitting coverage of the event from the 6th. Our Interns mostly slept through the conference, but in hindsight a few of the notes that they took were pretty telling. For example, this one between Mark Zuckerberg and a Coke advertising executive that was in attendance.
Coke Advertising Executive: …So Mark, it seems likely that the public will be less than happy with a system that allows you to see what they are purchasing …

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[11 Oct 2007 | No Comment | ]

Through bribes, coercion and possibly a death threat (though we aren’t admitting it) we have managed to find these “thank you” notes sent by MIT Computer Engineering grad Jeremy Payne to various software companies over the course of his career.
1999.
“I have always wanted to work for Microsoft. Historically, you always pushed the envelope and you truly understand how to manage software development. I was offered other jobs in the industry with firms that just didn’t “get it,” no one else can match your devotion to quality and innovation. …

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[15 Aug 2007 | No Comment | ]

Our new favorite website here at Tech Spoofs is Wikiscanner. We were considering an elaborate spoof, but some of the results that Wired came up with are way better than what our writers could do. For anyone who doesn’t know, Wikiscanner lets you see the Wikipedia edits made by some of the world’s most interesting people and organizations.

Nick Bilton calls Condoleeza Rice a “concert penis”
NY Times Compares Bush to Captain Kirk
Defense Intelligence Agency Classifies Maureen Dowd as a Man Hating Misandrist
Tech Spoofs referred to as the, “greatest news in …