In an address to students in a Hungarian university, a disgruntled student threw eggs at Steve Ballmer(, Microsoft CEO(link).
The funniest part was not the egg hurdling, but the most beautiful sight there is: A student carrying a white Macbook at a Microsoft led speech. I think that was the big insult of the day!
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The blogosphere has a new entrant: rakepoint.com. It’s written by Erick T. He is starting out and want to learn CSS, PHP and (insert geek buzz words here) to build his own theme. I look forward to that. I helped him set up his (mt) grid service just like where I am hosted….so Digg away!
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It’s been a general rule that hardware has always lagged behind software development and releases. It’s obvious that iterating and releasing in software is much easier than in hardware since there is little to no fabrication issues.
On the other side of the spectrum is content(movies, music, books). For the first time in history almost all [...]
If you haven’t seen Bill O’Reilly(aka Papa Bear) video on YouTube yet, take a look at this:
Pop open your twitterific and subscribe to @willshipley cause he is going to break the news of Delicious Library 2 in twitter first and offer a promo code for a few minutes. He just wrote:
Twitter Special: When I launch DL2, what I’ll do is mention it here first, at special pricing, but only for a [...]
The problem with Yahoo is that they are playing catchup in Google’s game: search and advertising.
Yahoo is not an algorithm like Google is. They started off as a human directory. If they go back to their roots and start a human ad network(with the help of OpenSocial), they could probably get better results than what [...]
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My results:
84%How Addicted to Apple Are You?
This is an assumption and I can’t test is right now but:
Blogsphere readers know that anybody has access to Robert Scoble’s cell phone number. We all know Robert Scoble posts his cell phone regularly on his blog and we know he has an iPhone (Exhibit A, and Exhibit B).
So assuming his number is not a [...]
Found this “relevant” ad in TechCrunch’s front page:
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Why relevant? Well people that read TechCruch probably have acid reflux due to stress. Startup life is “exiting”!
BTW: first blog post, using skitch rather than regular upload.
The mystery of the famous Silverback app that nobody knew what it did is finally over. A post in their blog says this:
You can test your websites anywhere, without having to lug microphones or video cameras around. You could pop into Starbucks with your Macbook and run a usability test with a click of your [...]