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Forget all the news coming from Iran, there’s real excitement on TechMeme: the unboxing of the CrunchPad prototype, posted on Youtube by Loic Le Meur:
I hate to say this.. but I think what we’re seeing here is Prototype C, the previous version, not the final, Launch prototype. Compare the photos and decide for yourself.
Given how I am waiting for the CrunchPad myself, I’d be happy to be proven wrong this time…
(Cross-posted from CloudAve)
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The University of Salford in Manchaster will offer a Masters degree in Social Media, focusing on Facebook and Twitter.
Salford claims to be the world’s first to offer a Masters course in social media, but they are not. That title goes to Birmingham City University which announced their one-year course in Social Media in March. For a cool £4,400 ($7,200) you get a Master’s Degree of … well, let’s just say questionable value.
Valleywag named Mark Suster, then CEO of Koral “one entrepreneur who won’t just take VC abuse” for his blog post “slamming one VC partnership for tardiness, inadequate preparation, and bad Blackberry manners.” That was late 2006…
Not long after the “incident” his startup, Koral received funding, which, in hindsight was probably unnecessary: a few months later, barely out with a beta product Koral got acquired by Salesforce.com.
A few months later the “anti-VC” (not really) CEO has become a VC Partner himself.
I’m trying to “Web 2.0-ize” a friend who is a primary care (family) physician. The big plan is to give him a site he can easily update, and that will build up some Google juice over time – surprise, surprise, that’s a blog. 🙂
He WILL blog, but not too often – so this should not look like a blog, more like a traditional website with just a section on the main page for the refreshing content – or in WordPress lingo, a theme that has several buckets for static content, and just one smaller area for blog posts.
Can you recommend a good theme? Thanks.
An era comes to an end on June 30th, when Microsoft discontinues their PFM (Personal Financial Management) product, Money.
The story started outside Microsoft, with a startup named Intuit releasing their first DOS-based PFM software, Quicken. The concept was simple and powerful: balance your checkbook, keep track of your financial transactions electronically. It worked; in fact surveys showed that Quicken became the driver for many consumers to buy their first personal computers in the late 80’s. But it really became popular when Windows, especially the first “good” version, 3.0 arrived.
Intuit remained a one-product company until after their IPO in 1993, when they acquired Chipsoft and entered the tax-software market.
John Wookey has a tough job. The former Oracle Exec, currently EVP @ SAP, the Enterprise Software leader is supposed to charter SAP’s foray into On-Demand – in a company whose bread-and-butter is clearly in installed applications and which still largely considers a threat to its traditional lucrative business.
He spent the first 6 months crafting the new strategy, which he first announced at the SIIA OnDemand Europe conference in Amsterdam.
American Airlines is about to test eco-friendly new technology on it’s regular flight between Paris and Miami this Thursday.
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I’ve had it. I’m tired of Microsoft programs taking over my computer without permission. This time it’s IE7 – yes, I know, IE8 is out, but I could not care less. In fact I have not launched IE7 for a long time. Sticking with Firefox, and if I was not so dependent on several Ffox add-ons, the browser I’d switch to would be Google’s Chrome, not Internet Explorer.
So what happened? Read on …
I’m receiving congratulatory notes – in the age of Facebook and Plaxo there is no hiding. Oh, well, I’m happy to have reached 21
, at least I can get a drink now.
But June 5th is a memorable day for other reasons. This year it is the 20th anniversary of the of Tiananmen Square crackdown in China. June 5th is also World Environment Day, which this year has the theme:
Your Planet Needs You – UNite to Combat Climate Change
On this day an amazing film, simply titled HOME is released. Directed by internationally renowned French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand, produced by world famous director Luc Besson and narrated by five-time Academy Award® nominee Glenn Close (Dangerous Liaisons), Home aims to change the way people see the planet and their impact on it. Shot in high definition in 54 countries and 120 locations over 217 days, the unique and first-time ever all-aerial filming style highlights the Earth’s wonders as well as its wounds and provides a necessary perspective to approach the changing environment.
The World Premiere will take place in more 100 countries and in 23 languages, with free screenings at the base of the Eiffel Tower in Paris, in New York’s Central Park, London’s Trafalgar Square and Omaha, which is North America’s host city for the United Nations World Environment Day.
And now we can share it here, as the film is available in full length, amazing quality on Youtube until June 14th, 2009.
Update: apparently the film itself is not embeddable, so all I can include here is a a video on the shooting itself. But the real film is worth clicking through and watching on Youtube – in full screen mode, ideally HD.
Enjoy. And Think.
As with all-things-Twitter, you should read this bottom-up:
And the text summary – again, read from bottom up:
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