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I don't agree that Twitter is rickety, but the other ten are dog meat.(tags: rafe+needleman shake-out)
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<blockquote>We are not spreading the contagion of gloom and doom. It's all about acting responsibly and making sure we all survive to fight another day. Because in the end, survival is what darwinian capitalism is all about.</blockquote>I am losing my faith in unbridled capitalism as being the best force for supporting innovation.
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Zuckerberg - as usual - doesn't say much of anything in an interview with Ryan Carson, except t
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- links for 2008-10-11Yesterday
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Baio and Schachter create a greasemonkey script and some smart analysis technology to hack the Memeorandum interface red or blue, depending on each blogger's political leanings.
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Jason Calacanis "confirmed to me that he knew first-hand that Apple was working on a networked television.
These LCD HDTVs will be fully networked, with the ability to stream all your iTunes content from your Mac or PC. In fact, Calacanis told me they'll function like a standard TV with an Apple TV box, only without the need for the box."
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The app factory that is Zoho continues to roll, launching Zoho mail, which looks like a knock off of Gmail, and which includes offline support via Gears.
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New info suggests a $800 mac laptop is coming in the next few weeks: I hope it is a subnotebook.
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I needed a good laugh. This worked.
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- The Now Web: Not Now, Or Not Yet?October 8
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I have my Stanford reunion coming up tomorrow. At the risk of dating myself, it's my twentieth. I wrote my thesis at Stanford on an Apple Macintosh, which required swapping out floppy discs in order to run Microsoft Word (on one) with my ever-expanding tome on the other. Drafts were printed on a dot matrix printer, and in the final weeks of each quarter Meyer Library was overcome with a chattering Morse-like din that I can recall to this day. It was our version of an echo chamber.For we did not have email. We did not even have modems.
In preparation for the reunion, some of us have encouraged our classmates to join Facebook. Of a class of about 1650 students, around 300 of us are on Facebook, and 80 of those 300 have joined the reunion group page. Only ten of us have listed twitter accounts. Clearly, we belong to a different generation. We stand for the Not Now social media users. Or possibly, the Not Yet social media users.
I don't know if this speaks to a generation gap or an experience gap. But if I belong to a generation that "doesn't get" social media, it is not entire
- American Express Members Project: 5 Days, 5 ProjectsOctober 8
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There are only five days left to cast your vote for one of the final five projects vying for funding from American Express Members Projects (as I reported at /Ground). They will be giving away $2.5M to various projects, and you do not have to be a cardholder to vote:
Please go and cast your vote!
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