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Bill Gates Made $2.8 Billion More Than You Last Year
via Silicon Alley Insider by Peter Kafka on March 04, 2008
Looking for another reason to hate your long-hours-for-low-pay job? Gaze with envy at Vanity Fair's just-launched "Windfall Report", which tallies 2007's biggest paydays. Not surprisingly, Bill Gates tops the list, via $2.8 billion in Microsoft (MSFT) stock sales and dividend payouts.VF lists 49 others, all of whom made more than you did last year. Notables include:Oracle (ORCL) CEO Larry...
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Craigslist Kills the Newspaper Industry
via Silicon Alley Insider by Henry Blodget on March 05, 2008
An interesting dichotomy has developed in the traditional media industry: TV-powered conglomerates like Viacom (VIAB) and CBS (CBS) are saying they see no impact from the recession. Newspaper companies like McClatchy (MNI) and The New York Times (NYT), meanwhile, are getting demolished. Some crazy people still argue that the newspaper industry's problems are just cyclical, that when the...
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FT.com To Give Facebook Students Free Four-Year Subs
via paidContent.org by Robert Andrews on March 04, 2008
FT.com will tomorrow begin giving free site subscriptions to college students via Facebook, the site has told us. The news site will launch an app that gives users a PIN code which can be redeemed for an annual premium sub. The app will only be available to those users who are identified at the social site as students and the subscriptions will expire after 12 months but can be renewed, again for...
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How to make your startup successful
via Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing by DonDodge on March 08, 2008
Mike Arrington at TechCrunch wrote "Startups must hire the right people and watch every penny, or fail" This was in response to a blog by Jason Calacanis, founder & CEO of Mahalo, who wrote "How to save money running a startup". Both stories stirred up a ton of comments, mostly negative, on why they were wrong, and trashing Calacanis for being a ruthless task master. I agree with much of what...
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The Future Of Voice May Be Voiceless
via TechCrunch by Duncan Riley on March 12, 2008
The above video is a little rough in terms of processing delay, but it’s staggering. Voice without voice. According to New Scientist, the neckband translates thought into speech by picking up nerve signals; “with careful training a person can send nerve signals to their vocal cords without making a sound. These signals are picked up by the neckband and relayed wirelessly to a computer that...
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Is more better
via almost literary by K on March 12, 2008
They had warned us that in Argentina, time passes slowly, things don’t quite get done in the same way. That is, people enjoy their lives more, some municipal jobs only require five hours of work a day, dinner is late and all-night talks aren’t the product of bathroom nose candy, not even close, it’s clusters of friends rallying around a solitary soda on a wooden table til dawn. Important...
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Forget Facebook. The Web's platform is Firefox
via Webware.com by Matt Asay on March 13, 2008
John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla(Credit: Matt Asay)I spent an hour Thursday with John Lilly, CEO of Mozilla, and Mike Schroepfer, Mozilla's vice president of Engineering, and learned a few things. For one thing, I once argued that Mozilla should hire more "capitalist pigs." John's riposte Thursday was, "We have more capitalist pigs than you think."John didn't mean that Mozilla is just...
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Despite Dominance By A Few, Independent Ad Networks Can Continue To Rise: Report
via paidContent.org by David Kaplan on March 12, 2008
With Google's (NSDQ: GOOG) $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick closed this week, it might seem like there's no room for smaller ad networks. But a white paper by media investment bank DeSilva & Phillips—Ad Networks: Monetizing The Long Tail—says that there is still a valuable space for independent ad nets to fill, at least for the moment. D+P posits that the value is available...
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Defending a vision of architecture: Frank Gehry in 1990, on TED.com
via TED | TEDBlog by (author unknown) on March 12, 2008
From the TED archives: Speaking at TED2 in 1990, the not-yet-legendary architect Frank Gehrytakes a whistlestop tour of his work to date, from his Venice Beach house to the under-construction American Center in Paris. Over the course of this 45-minute slideshow (before TED's 18-minute limit), Gehry explains the site-specific nature of his buildings -- context he felt was lost in the...
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