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posted a message on Twitter

“@gaberivera my company has a new press release coming out soon. would you be interested in a pre-briefing?”

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Gabe Rivera liked this

posted a message on Twitter

“i'm going to catch up on all my email today. for realz.”

11 hours ago - Link

posted a message on Twitter

“anyone have recommendations for how to clean a grimy laptop keyboard?”

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marcel weiss liked this

can of air, rag with fluid, you could also pop the keys and put them in the dishwasher - Allen Stern

thx, allen. on my to-do list for today - Eric Eldon

posted a message

“I was recently informed that you and your company, VentureBeat, issued a press release about XXXXXXXXXX without any prior authorization from anyone within our organization. We demand an immediate retraction of this release as it is was not authorized, is not entirely representative of all the facts”

Thursday at 4:22 pm - Link

Gavin, Ryan Sholin, Frederic, RAPatton and 11 other people liked this

simply hilarious. if only their lawyer sent a C&D. - Leonid Kozhukh

the second part got cut off: "...and may interfere with an upcoming press release we are planning. Please let me know as soon as possible that you and VentureBeat will be in full compliance with our request." - Eric Eldon

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Damn, I better stop writing up these press releases... - MG Siegler

also, we'd tried calling and emailing well advance, and they didn't respond. - Eric Eldon

you issued a pr about porn (xxx) ? nice! - Allen Stern

mg, press releases are fine. they just need to be authorized by the company beforehand. - Eric Eldon

hmm interesting.. - Fred Grott

Somebody get him a whamburger with some french cries. - Jake Swearingen

we just thought thigh master would enjoy the new round of press. it's been a while - MG Siegler

nothing like the july 4th weekend for celebrating the first amendment - Eric Eldon

lets see this pr - im checking all wires worldwide and haven't found any release with venturebeat on it - Allen Stern

post the name, stop being a wimp! :P - sean percival

@allen yeah, for a minute there i'd thought we'd opened up a VB PR arm, but i checked and it turns out we didn't. - Eric Eldon

@sean you might not think it from some of my tweets and friendfeed comments, but i do try to temper myself with a modicum of respect for those i disagree with :) - Eric Eldon

Ask them about the facts so you can update the news article. - Igor The Troll

@igor that's what i've already done. also, we had checked the news out enough that i'm not sure we got anything wrong. we shall see. - Eric Eldon

Eric, let us know how it goes, and if need to we can get other Bloggers behind this issue. This sounds like Cyber Bullying of a blogger by a company. It happens often now days. - Igor The Troll

its Miasole - sean percival

@igor thanks for the support. haven't heard back. @sean funny guess, but it's not that one. - Eric Eldon

posted an entry on VentureBeat

Next “Mobile Monday” to focus on mobile web analytics

Thursday at 8:42 pm - Link

posted a message on Twitter

“i thought it was the politicized NIE reports you guys cooked up to fit your self-serving assumptions but i see i was wrong http://is.gd/LvV”

Thursday at 3:16 pm - Link

an extensive takedown http://www.memeorandum.com/#a0... - Eric Eldon

posted a message on Twitter

“just got a funny message from a company, demanding that we take down a "press release" we'd published http://is.gd/Lyd”

Thursday at 4:31 pm - Link