Too busy to check your daily Betabeat? Here are the highlights from last week, as selected by the editors.
REQUIRED READING: Can Erick Schonfeld Keep the TechCrunch Swagger Alive?
As the veteran editor steps into the top job, his departing colleague is torching the fields behind him.
REQUIRED READING: Rumors & Acquisitions: Bnter Takes Over the Makery
What will become of The Makery now that Matt Langer is gainfully employed?
REQUIRED READING: Occupy Wall Street’s Web Team Finds Anarchy Ain’t Easy
The ragtag protest’s ragtag IT department.
Supplemental reading: Twitter: ‘We Are Not Blocking Terms Related To #OccupyWallStreet In Any Way, Shape or Form’
Extra credit! More About Vibe, the Anonymous, Anarchist Twitter That Doesn’t Know Anything About You Except Your Location
VITAMINS:
-The Winners from HackNY’s Biggest Hackathon Ever and the Debut of the Hacker League
-Yipit’s Vinny Vacanti On the Problems Plaguing the Daily Deals Market
-Jack Dorsey Offers Mayor Bloomberg a Job at Twitter’s First New York Office
-Startup News: Fitocracy Mobilizes, Exfm Extends and Blueprint Health and Facebook Both Want You
MILK AND COOKIES:
-New York’s Tech Community Remembers Steve Jobs
-For Soho House, The Tech Set Is The New Clubbable Class
-YouAre.TV Moves Back to New York After Fallout With Flaky Co-Founder-to-Be
-This Week In TechStars!: Mark Suster Gives Good Insult
RECYCLED:
-New York’s It Startup Throws a Party (January 14, 2011)
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