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Archive for March 3rd, 2008

Charlene Li At Graphing Social Patterns (Nick O’Neill/All Facebook)

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Nick O’Neill / All Facebook:
Charlene Li At Graphing Social Patterns  —  Today and tomorrow I will be at the Graphing Social Patterns conference in San Diego.  There are a lot of great speakers speaking at the event.  If you are here, definitely stop by and say hello!  Right now Charlene Li of Forrester Research […]

VideoEgg Dumps Video Hosting Clients (Michael Learmonth/Silicon Alley Insider)

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Michael Learmonth / Silicon Alley Insider:
VideoEgg Dumps Video Hosting Clients  —  VideoEgg’s conversion from a video aggregator to hosting service to ad network hasn’t been without its victims.  Publishers with video still served by VideoEgg are getting Dear John letters, informing them that they’ve got 90 days to find a new video host.

Gates on Yahoo, Google and the next president (Msantjer/Todd Bishop’s Microsoft Blog)

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Msantjer / Todd Bishop’s Microsoft Blog:
Gates on Yahoo, Google and the next president  —  Guest post from P-I reporter Joseph Tartakoff:  —  At his speech this morning to the thousands gathered for the SharePoint Conference at the Washington State Convention & Trade Center, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates took some questions …

Dave Veloz’s Steampunk Remake: (The Steampunk Workshop)

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

The Steampunk Workshop:
Dave Veloz’s Steampunk Remake:  —  A Steampunk Monitor and Keyboard for a Mac mini  —  There is nothing in the world that I like better then receiving pictures of things that people have been inspired to build by my projects.  When I opened my mail and discovered these photos I squeed like […]

Microsoft: Storage unification still somewhere out there (Mary Jo Foley/All about Microsoft)

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Microsoft: Storage unification still somewhere out there  —  Microsoft customers are still in search of that elusive goal: a single, unified storage system to simplify the deployment and management of Microsoft’s enteprrise wares.  And Microsoft officials are still promising it will happen …

Microsoft’s Interoperability Principles and IE8 (IEBlog)

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

IEBlog:
Microsoft’s Interoperability Principles and IE8  —  We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can.  This decision is a change from what we’ve posted previously.  —  Why Change?  —  Microsoft recently published a set of Interoperability Principles.

Steve Wozniak’s frustrations with iPhone, Apple TV and MacBook Air (Dan Warne/APC)

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Dan Warne / APC:
Steve Wozniak’s frustrations with iPhone, Apple TV and MacBook Air  —  Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says he wishes Apple hadn’t released a 2G version of the iPhone; that the Apple TV is frustrating to use, and that the MacBook Air won’t be a hit.  —  Wozniak was in Sydney this morning […]

An hour and a half with Barack Obama (Marc Andreessen/blog.pmarca.com)

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
An hour and a half with Barack Obama  —  I’ve tried very hard to keep politics out of this blog — despite nearly overpowering impulses to the contrary — for two reasons: one, there’s no reason to alienate people who don’t share my political views, as wrong-headed as those people may […]

7-inch Eee PC vs 9-inch Eee PC - ready, fight! (Thomas Ricker/Engadget)

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
7-inch Eee PC vs 9-inch Eee PC — ready, fight!  —  We know you need it.  Now you’ve got it.  ASUS’ 7- and 9-inch Eee PCs lined up for a side by side comparison.  The new 9-incher is clearly the bigger brother to the shorter original.  Too bad too ’cause that […]

Woz finds flaws in Apple’s latest offerings (Sydney Morning Herald)

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Sydney Morning Herald:
Woz finds flaws in Apple’s latest offerings  —  Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple, in Sydney today.  —  Asher Moses  —  Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak heaped less than lavish praise on the company’s iPhone, MacBook Air and Apple TV products when visiting Sydney this morning.