December 2009
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Windows 7 Was ( Not ) My Idea
I am sure you have seen the commercials where you have various “every man” characters claiming that their suggestions for Windows 7 helped to make it into the product that it is today. The commercials end with that catchy phrase “I’m Joe Blow, and Windows 7 was my idea.” I guess the message that we are to take from this is that Microsoft spent years listening to its...
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Oral Roberts Dead at 91
I just received a note via email that Oral Roberts died as a result of pneumonia complications at the age of 91. As one of the ( relatively ) few alums of Oral Roberts University, I am immediately both saddened and uplifted. I went to ORU at a time when things were really going poorly. The school had just finished construction on the exterior ( and some of the interior ) of the City of Faith,...
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What We're Not Talking About
With the flurry of blogs and info being spewed out between yesterday and today about the coming of the Google Phone, the battle for mobile device supremacy is getting ready to escalate once again. Google is moving out of software and into the hardware business. What’s interesting to me is not that we have two companies ( Google and Apple ) bashing each others skulls in on a daily basis, but...
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Who vs. What
I remember reading an interview with the head of M&A at Google ( at the time ) where he was asked a series of questions about what made the companies successful that Google had targeted for acquisition. One of the first points he talked about was the fact that it was extremely rare that a successful company was not headed by a partnership at the top. It was his position that two heads were...
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Update On My GoogleVoice Voicemail Experiment
A few weeks ago, I ported my mobile phone voicemail to GoogleVoice. After a few hiccups getting started, I am now comfortably settled in to using this as my only source for voicemail. What I like about it: 1. I love that regardless of what number I give out ( and I am now only giving out my GV number as the way to contact me ), all of my voicemail winds up in the same place. I no longer am...
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Do You Think Craig Newmark Cares?
I was reading some news this morning, and came across this post about Craigslist blocking Yahoo Pipes, and indirectly a mash-up for a company called Flippity. There are cries abounding in all the major technology news sources. How could Craigslist block someone trying to use their data in new ways? Isn’t that what the web is all about? If you know anything about the owner of Craigslist,...