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One for all, all for one. Modern-day “musketeers” don’t use swords anymore; they have the Belkin Rockstar instead.
Connect, share, listen, even mix songs together.
Details on all the gadget-blogs: Gizmodo, CrunchGear, Blast Magazine, Boing Boing Gadgets and Engadget.
Wine as a Service
(hat tip: dinglebum)
You can buy it here – me thinks it’s a better deal than dehydrated water. 
P.S. I can’t believe this did not make it to the Economist’s 2008 tech predictions list…or anyone’s for that matter: mathewingram.com/work, broadstuff, Darren Herman , Feld Thoughts.
(Yes, I admit, I am playing TechMeme
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Picked this up from James Governor’s thread:
battery near dead. how hard is it to have plugs for a room full of influencers? sap events needs a chief electricity officer… 😉
Rest assured, the “other” CEO, Henning Kagermann is well, thank you very much. In fact he just spent a good 40 minutes with the Enterprise Irregulars, and if I had an SD card adapter or a stupid cable with me (I know, how low-tech…) I could post the group photo to prove it.
Update (12/5): More on the Chief Electricity Officer of James’s Green Blog. Oh, and here’s the photo, finally:
It’s funny how your feed reader can juxtapose random, unrelated items, yet making them look like a thread:
Jeff Nolan discusses how BMW is experimenting with the IP protocol to network automotive controllers.
The engineers found that IP could well suit the real-time requirements even of safety-critical applications.
Jeff’s conclusion:
In many ways modern cars are beginning to resemble PCs with standard I/O and integrated networking.
(Mumbling to myself: that’s what I said when I made the lifetime mistake of buying a first-model-year Volvo S80 T6 in 1999 … not a car, but a computer network on wheels. Consequently, nobody knew how to fix it)
But, no, I am not talking about the BMW Crash just below Jeff’s post… it’s just a Big, Fat Billboard, publicly crashing on Times Square. Feed Readers have their funny ways 
OK, so we all know Guy Kawasaki plans to Change the World on his own blog. But apparently that’s not enough, he now dominates TechCrunch… and Technorati… the whole Internet? I’m not kidding, just look at his name on all posts listed by Technorati:
OK, I couldn’t resist making fun of Microsoft’s plans to open a giant data center in Irkutsk, Siberia, where winter temperatures can reach -40 degrees. Yes, that’s 40 below zero, and also the temperature where Celsius meets Fahrenheit. As for the real news, read it here:
Rough Type, All about Microsoft, WebProNews, PH “Kommersant”, TECH.BLORGE.com and Slashdot
Update: A little history: other than extreme temperatures, Siberia got her fame as the destination where Russian Tsars exiled criminals or simply their political opponents. Stalin continued this tradition, although he preferred a more direct method: execution.
This fact apperently does not excape Tech.Blorge:
The new location should serve as an ideal station to transfer all those employees who have leaked insider Microsoft information.
It’s definitely Holiday time: slow day, no news, my feed-reader is empty… took a walk outside, did not meet anyone. But for a minute I got confused, thinking we’re heading into April Fools’ Day, not Thanksgiving. It’s all because of Philipp Lenssen’s brilliant post: What If Gmail Had Been Designed by Microsoft?
I won’t spoil the fun, I want you to read his piece, here’s just a little teaser. Starting point, regular gmail:
He then rebrands Gmail to something longer, like Windows Live Gmail, change the URL to the more professional looking http://by114w.bay114.gmail.live.com/mail/mail.aspx?rru=home, adds new panes, breaks up messages from conversation threads into their individual parts, adjust the spam filter to be a bit more MS-like … etc. Here’s the final result:
I actually think this last pic is overdone…nevertheless, it’s good reading. Tomorrow Philipp plans to discuss “What if Microsoft had designed Windows Vista.” Artful play with the words. You could read it like this: “What if Microsoft had designed Windows Vista” – but we know that is the case, so that leaves us with the only possible interpretation: “What if Microsoft had designed Windows Vista.” 
As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words.. so I’ll save you the agony of reading through 3000 words, let the photos speak for themselves:
The Enterprise Irregulars with SAP Board Member Peter Zencke
The Enterprise Irregulars with SAP CEO Henning Kagermann
The Enterprise Irregulars with Oracle President Charles Phillips
Do you see what I see? Is there a trend here? I defer further analysis to our in-house fashionistas. 
More specifically, what’s wrong with this picture shot at David Hornik’s super-secret, super-elite TheLobby conference? ( I mean other than dressing like this in Hawaii)
Hm… OK, let me give you a hint:
Aaron, will you now give me a break about my shoes?
Vinnie talks about The Web 2.0 Confusion Cycle. There’s a 2.0 of everything.. we’re used to Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, Office 2.0… next week there’s a Sales 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. But if you think that’s stretching it, wait … here’s the Sex 2.0 Conference.
So, in the spirit of “everything 2.0”, I claim Evita 2.0, before someone else does:
First lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner swept to victory in Argentina’s presidential vote on Sunday to become the first woman elected to lead the country, television exit polls showed. (Reuters)
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