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  • It appears to be a talent buy, with Facebook employing the team and shutting down their service (aka acq-hire-sition).

    Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0 2010

  • It appears to be a talent buy, with Facebook employing the team and shutting down their service (aka acq-hire-sition).

    Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0 2010

  • It appears to be a talent buy, with Facebook employing the team and shutting down their service (aka acq-hire-sition).

    Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0 2010

  • It appears to be a talent buy, with Facebook employing the team and shutting down their service (aka acq-hire-sition).

    Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0 2010

  • Google censors results in most of the ... "acq:" In German it's called "brace monkey" and in more Slavic languages "monkey sign" "griz326:" I've always found it interesting to consider the comments made about China by government officials, ... "

    GMSV John Murrell 2010

  • Biggah brodder posss… acq… greedie an kiipd her for sef.

    BABY BLANKET - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • Note 65: BN, nouv.acq. lat. 999, fol. 233b: "innocentes parvuli qui alio anno fuerunt cruce signati."

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • Usually I say to my acq editor "do you have anything on the wish list with no authors attached?" and that starts the conversation, but there's nothing on the wish list right now that I'm remotely interested in/qualified to write about.

    Archive 2005-01-01 2005

  • Usually I say to my acq editor "do you have anything on the wish list with no authors attached?" and that starts the conversation, but there's nothing on the wish list right now that I'm remotely interested in/qualified to write about.

    i need a topic for a new book 2005

  • This is important because I'd been told by the acq ed the dev ed would have comments on the outline, and I was not starting writing until I had agreement on at least Chapter I mean Part One.

    [book] under development and under way badger 2003

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