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		<title>Booting Up: Etsy is Big In Alaska (and Everywhere Else)</title>

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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 07:49:56 -0400</pubDate>
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			<dc:creator>Patrick Clark</dc:creator>
				
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		<description><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/ap_chad.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-77868" alt="ap_chad" src="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/ap_chad.jpg" width="150" height="200" /></a>Etsy community sales topped $895 million last year, according to CEO Chad Dickerson. Who bought? The knit scarf-wearing citizens of Alaska and Massachusetts more than pulled their weight. [<a href="http://www.etsy.com/blog/news/2013/notes-from-chad-2012-year-in-review/">Etsy</a>]</p>
<p>Meanwhile, pour out a little bit of Earl Grey for Regretsy, as the craft-snark blog is shuttering. Wrote founder April Winchell in a blog post: "After three and a half years, I've said everything I have to say about it, and now we're just Bedazzling a dead horse." [<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/regretsy-etsy-april-winchell-goodbye/">The Daily Dot</a>]</p>
<p>The nice thing about a Yahoo earnings call, if you're Kara Swisher, is that you don't have to hide in the vents to hear what Marissa Mayer is saying. The good news: Yahoo beat Wall Street estimates. The bad: Revenue was flat, and oh, can someone do something about that pre-call elevator music? [<a href="http://allthingsd.com/20130128/liveblogging-yahoos-q4-earnings-call-a-little-up-is-better-than-a-little-down/?mod=atdtweet">AllThingsD</a>]</p>
<p>That was a short-lived experiment: Months after Tumblr gave users the option of paying $5 to pin content to the top of followers' dashboards, the pay-to-pin feature has been abandoned. [<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/society/tumblr-pin-highlight-feature-cut/">The Daily Dot</a>]</p>
<p>This hardware will self-destruct: the Pentagon is interested in military hardware "capable of physically disappearing in a controlled, triggerable manner"—the better to keep enemies from collecting and reverse-engineering the detritus of war. [<a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-01/29/dissolvable-spy-hardware">Wired</a>]</p>
<p>Less than a week after Twitter launched Vine, the video-sharing app it acquired last year, the company went back to the acquisition well, announcing a deal for Crashlytics, which tracks bad code when apps fail. [<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-acquires-crashlytics-2013-1?op=1">Business Insider</a>]</p>
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/ap_chad.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-77868" alt="ap_chad" src="http://nyobetabeat.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/ap_chad.jpg" width="150" height="200" /></a>Etsy community sales topped $895 million last year, according to CEO Chad Dickerson. Who bought? The knit scarf-wearing citizens of Alaska and Massachusetts more than pulled their weight. [<a href="http://www.etsy.com/blog/news/2013/notes-from-chad-2012-year-in-review/">Etsy</a>]</p>
<p>Meanwhile, pour out a little bit of Earl Grey for Regretsy, as the craft-snark blog is shuttering. Wrote founder April Winchell in a blog post: "After three and a half years, I've said everything I have to say about it, and now we're just Bedazzling a dead horse." [<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/news/regretsy-etsy-april-winchell-goodbye/">The Daily Dot</a>]</p>
<p>The nice thing about a Yahoo earnings call, if you're Kara Swisher, is that you don't have to hide in the vents to hear what Marissa Mayer is saying. The good news: Yahoo beat Wall Street estimates. The bad: Revenue was flat, and oh, can someone do something about that pre-call elevator music? [<a href="http://allthingsd.com/20130128/liveblogging-yahoos-q4-earnings-call-a-little-up-is-better-than-a-little-down/?mod=atdtweet">AllThingsD</a>]</p>
<p>That was a short-lived experiment: Months after Tumblr gave users the option of paying $5 to pin content to the top of followers' dashboards, the pay-to-pin feature has been abandoned. [<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/society/tumblr-pin-highlight-feature-cut/">The Daily Dot</a>]</p>
<p>This hardware will self-destruct: the Pentagon is interested in military hardware "capable of physically disappearing in a controlled, triggerable manner"—the better to keep enemies from collecting and reverse-engineering the detritus of war. [<a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-01/29/dissolvable-spy-hardware">Wired</a>]</p>
<p>Less than a week after Twitter launched Vine, the video-sharing app it acquired last year, the company went back to the acquisition well, announcing a deal for Crashlytics, which tracks bad code when apps fail. [<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-acquires-crashlytics-2013-1?op=1">Business Insider</a>]</p>
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