Today, Business Insider released it’s Silicon Alley Insider 100, which lists “the people that did the coolest stuff In New York tech this year.” The “SAI 100″ — as the kids call it — has become an annual rite of Fall for the dozens of Internet users who pay attention to the New York tech scene, and is being fêted with a party this evening on the floor of the New York stock exchange. One particularly astute observer of the list, though, pointed out that ordinal ranking of NY tech people seems to line up very similar to their alphabetic listings as well. Update: the intro of the BI post states that the slides are listed at random, and not ranked in order of power and influence. Nevermind!

The Tangled Webs

Nothing aids the launch of a new website like a little bit of controversy! After being interviewed by Business Insider about the launch of his new site, Andrew Breitbart took to the webs with complaints of being misquoted and proceeded to accuse Business Insider of merely being a front for Gawker. We untangle it all after the jump.

Brilliant idea from Business Insider: Embeddable posts. Henry Blodget posted Thursday about the new feature, which permits bloggers to embed entire posts on their sites, rather than ye olde copy-and-paste.

It’s a genius idea, since it incorporates Business Insider branding and makes it easier to include the whole thing than just paste in an excerpt. In fact, it’s such a genius idea that it’s a wonder it took so long. It makes you wonder: Could it have helped save newspapers?

How did a lede like the one in Niall Ferguson’s column today make it past the Financial Times editors? The Financial Times is British paper and so arguably not quite as sensitive to the historical racial nerves Ferguson’s lede touches on. But still! Are we supposed to conclude that Barack Obama is lucky because he is black?