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Paul Graham:
Microsoft is Dead — A few days ago I suddenly realized Microsoft was dead. I was talking to a young startup founder about how Google was different from Yahoo. I said that Yahoo had been warped from the start by their fear of Microsoft. That was why they'd positioned themselves as a …
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Don Dodge / Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing:
Since when does growing $4 Billion a year = Dead? — Paul Graham, founder of Y-Combinator, declares Microsoft is dead. Paul must be living in a cave somewhere, or drunk on the Web 2.0 Kool-Aid. Paul obviously wrote his headline to grab attention and attract links to his blog.
Dave Winer / Scripting News:
Is Microsoft dead? Feh. — Paul Graham posits that Microsoft is dead and the cause of death is: — 1. Murder by Google. — 2. Oh who cares, it's all bulls**t. — In fact, Microsoft is not dead, because (come on get real) it's a company, and companies aren't living, and they don't die.
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Ryan Stewart / The Universal Desktop:
Why Do People Hate Building Desktop Applications? — After reading Paul Graham's inflammatory post about how Microsoft is dead, Simeon Bateman and I got into a little back and forth over IM about the merits of what he was saying. I tend to agree with Don Dodge, about both the title of the piece and the …
Jeff Ventura / Graceful Flavor:
Apple's role in Microsoft's downfall. — Paul Graham of Y Combinator recently penned a thoughtful essay called Microsoft is Dead, and he provides reasons that, if you're a steady reader of this blog (or the news, really), shouldn't come as much of a surprise to you.
Washington Post:
Zell Wants End to Web's Free Ride — It's time for newspapers to stop giving away their stories to popular search engines such as Google, according to Samuel Zell, the real estate magnate whose bid for Tribune Co. was accepted this week. — In conversations before and after a speech Zell …
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Jason Calacanis / The Jason Calacanis Weblog:
Sam Zell is going to lose billions on newspapers and the Washington Post has no idea what they're talking about. — I just read this quote from an interview with Sam Zell, the real-estate billionaire who paid billions for a bunch of newspapers, and who apparently has no idea how Google works.
Doc Searls Weblog:
Earlier this last week I heard a biopic NPR report on Sam Zell, the new owner of the Tribune papers. It was a positive piece that gave me some hope that the papers might live. — That hope ended this morning when I read Zell Wants End to Web's Free Ride, in the Washington Post, by reporters Frank Ahrens and Karl Vick.
Om Malik / GigaOM:
12 tips before you buy Nokia N95 — WEEKEND REVIEW: Darla Mack says that the Nokia flagship stores in Chicago and New York are about to start selling the much-awaited Nokia N95 phones. The phone, often described by Nokia executives as the ultimate multimedia computer …
Mark Shuttleworth:
Note to content owners: DRM doesn't work — There are some ideas that are broken, but attractive enough to some people that they are doomed to be tried again and again. — DRM is one of them. — I was thrilled to see recently that the processing key for *all* HD discs produced to date has been discovered and published.
Damon Darlin / New York Times:
Reporter at Dow Jones Online Site Resigns Over Web Venture — A reporter for MarketWatch, an online business news site owned by Dow Jones, resigned yesterday after published reports suggested that a Web site she started on her own might have created a conflict of interest.
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Douglas A Karr / The Marketing Technology Blog:
I Canceled My Basecamp Account Today — In the past, I've been a fan of 37 Signals. I believe that they were ahead of their day in user interface design and simplicity. Their book, Getting Real, still has an impact in how I develop, design, and build product requirements.
Kristen Nicole / 606Tech:
Interview with Jaiku co-founder Jyri Engeström - Twitter Alternative — With the extreme popularity of Twitter, and the talk of how it should be acquired soon, it only makes sense that similar services emerge and gain traction as well. Jaiku is Twitter's most relevant rival, and I can clearly see why.
Orbitcast:
Two Can Play: Mock ad showing NAB flip-flops — I figured that since the NAB can create anti-merger ads, I can just as well create my own pseudo-ad showing the NAB's inconsistencies. So here goes:
