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Chickipedia Embeds (Not In Beds). Still Won’t Get You Laid.
via Mashable! by Kristen Nicole on February 04, 2008
As if the Chickipedia site wasn’t enough, the team behind it has just launched an embed option so you can take hot chicks around the web with you. Every entry on the site has an embed option, and it amounts to a large-scale image of the woman who’s profile you’re visiting–and that’s about it. It looks like a web-based trading card for hot girls (don’t take that as a serious idea,...
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Dear Jerry and Steve... Here's the Answer
via Silicon Alley Insider by Henry Blodget on February 02, 2008
We think a straight acquisition of Yahoo (YHOO) by Microsoft (MSFT) would be a disaster. However, we also think the fundamental premise for the merger is sound and that the companies should combine forces. Furthermore, we think there's a way to do this that would be a win for both companies' shareholders. To wit:1. Jerry, fly up to Redmond this afternoon and have dinner with Steve. Just...
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Microsoft-Yahoo: What Will Stay And What Will Go?
via TechCrunch by Duncan Riley on February 01, 2008
While the tech world waits to see whether Yahoo will accept Microsoft’s $44.6 billion takeover bid, Microsoft and Yahoo employees sleep restlessly at the prospect of massive staff cuts if the takeover goes ahead. There’s a lot of duplication between Yahoo and Microsoft’s internet arms and services will shut and/ or be downsized as content and services from each cross-pollinate across the...
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Opera Mobile unterstützt Flash Lite 3
via Golem.de by (author unknown) on February 04, 2008
Mit Opera Mobile 9.5 sollen Smartphone-Besitzer im Internet surfen können, wie sie es vom Desktop-Browser gewohnt sind. Die kommende Version unterstützt Java sowie Widgets und kommt mit allen Web-2.0-Angeboten klar. So das Versprechen des norwegischen Browser-Herstellers, der noch nicht verraten hat, wann diese Version erscheinen wird. (Smartphone, Embedded Systems)
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Silicon Valley after a Microsoft/Yahoo merger: a contrarian view
via blog.pmarca.com by Marc Andreessen on February 04, 2008
... "By swallowing up Yahoo, Microsoft will be removing one of the biggest and most active acquirors of start-ups in Silicon Valley... [making] M&A less competitive in general and [reducing] the # of potential exits... [which is] bad news for Internet [startups] and their VC backers anyway you look at it." I respectfully disagree; I think that a Microsoft/Yahoo merger would have practically no im...
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Aviary, the online design tool suite, launching tonight
via The Universal Desktop by Ryan Stewart on February 04, 2008
Allen Stern has the scoop on the launch of Aviary, a company that I’ve covered a lot for their online design tool suite. The stuff these guys have built is very, very cool. They took Flex and created an entire suite of tools including a 3D editor, a photo editor, a vector editor, and a pattern generator. Tonight they’ll be launching with Phoenix, the image editing tool.The tools behind Aviary...
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This Super Tuesday, My Choice Was Hillary
via louisgray.com by louisgray on February 05, 2008
The presidential primaries are more like baseball's regular season than like March Madness. For the front-runners, every single game (or state) counts. And while at times it seems the broadcast networks are engaging in a rush to judgement, to claim themselves as the first to call a state for a candidate, whether through exit polling, projections or early precinct reporting, it's worth...
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Google Maps Inside a Flex Application
via RIApedia by mikepotter on February 04, 2008
The team at Advanced Flash Components have created a universal mapping component that allows Flex developers to easily incorporate mapping components from any provider, including Google Maps. Flex developers who have wanted to incorporate Google Maps into their apps can now do so by leveraging the work that's gone into this component.The component is still in beta (0.5) and is available as a...
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Ballmer: I'm completely out of ideas
via The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs by Steve on February 02, 2008
The Borg-Yahoo merger won't work. Here's why. It's like taking the two guys who finished second and third in a 100-yard dash and tying their legs together and asking for a rematch, believing that now they'll run faster.Here's the weird thing: I first heard that line about the 100-yard dash from Ballmer himself, maybe a decade ago.See, the biggest mistake people make about...
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