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Phil Sim / Squash:
Biggest. Microsoft. Stuff-up. Ever? (And Who the heck is David Richards?) — In case your not a regular Squash-ee or else haven't picked it up along the way, my tiny, tiny little niche area of authority that I've been fortunate to build a business on is the Australian technology media.
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Dave Winer / Scripting News:
You can view the 60-percent-Vista-rewrite story as something of a software development IQ test. Anyone who believes that it's conceivable is someone who hasn't got the most basic clue about how software development works. It's akin to believing that all the US troops in Iraq could come home …
Scobleizer / Microsoft Geek Blogger:
Can this week ever end? — I'm on my way up to San Francisco to meet Ernie the Attorney. I think I'll have a good stiff drink. After this week... I see that someone in Acer is being quoted about Vista having "major problems." Oh, I love this game. A marketer, down in Australia …
Loren / Incremental Blogger:
What would you think of Vista if 60% of its code had been rewritten? — Robert Scoble wishes that more blogs had challenged this article from SmartHouse claiming that up to 60% of Windows Vista will have been rewritten by the time it ships. Evidently a bunch of people are concerned …
Barbara Jepson / New York Times:
Classical, Now Without the 300-Year Delay — REMEMBER that Mozart concert you wanted to get to last month? No, not that one. (Or that one. Or those other 10 or 12.) The one with Lorin Maazel conducting the New York Philharmonic in the last three symphonies at Avery Fisher Hall.
Fred / A VC:
Google Finance — I've basically been offline all week. I've been skiing with my family in Sun Valley and most of the posts on the blog this week were written on the plane and pre-scheduled. That allowed me to take the week off and it was a good break. — So I am catching up on the week …
Guy Kawasaki / Bona tempora volvantur:
Nine Questions to Ask a Startup — Most of the information that you can find about recruiting is for the employer, not the employee. (I'm as guilty as this as anyone: for example, The Art of Recruiting, I and II.) Let's turn the tables, switch modes, and balance the scales by discussing …
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Om Malik / GigaOM:
Talking Netvibes — Web 2.0 which I define as ability to do a lot more with a lot less inside of a web browser - and the ensuing funding madness has finally started to go global - albeit very slowly. Netvibes, a Paris-based start-up last week raised a million dollars in angel funding …
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The Social Software Weblog
Andrew / Web Publishing Blog:
Exclusive Interview with PlentyOfFish.com creator and owner, Markus Frind — As I reported a few days ago, Markus Frind, the owner of the free dating site PlentyOfFish.com has been pulling in $10,000 a day from Adsense. What is even more remarkable is that he is single handedly …
David / Signal vs. Noise:
It's a great time to start a business — David Mar 25 — Caterina Fake has a peculiar list of reasons why starting a company today is a bad idea. I say it's never been a better time to start a business. You know, the kind that develops a product or service and asks money for it.
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Randy Holloway Unfiltered 2.0
Chris Morris / CNN:
Gaming's biggest least-known company — Players and developers know Epic Games. It's time you did as well. — Game Over is a weekly column by Chris Morris — SAN JOSE, Calif. (CNNMoney.com) - Mention Epic Games to a hardcore gamer and their eyes glaze slightly as they begin rhapsodizing …
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Carl Franklin / Intellectual Hedonism:
Pwopcatcher Alpha — I know I teased you last year with the PwopCatcher UI in this blog post, and since then everyone has been asking me for it. — I am hereby announcing an alpha version at www.pwopcatcher.com. Here are the features in a nutshell: — Subscribe to RSS feeds that contain enclosures (of any kind).
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Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
Saving journalism (and killing the press) — I'm in Philly at the Annenberg School of Communication for the Norg unconference: A remarkable, perhaps historic, gathering of newspaper people and bloggers starting a conversation about saving news. Will Bunch, a columnist on the Daily News …
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Rich Miller / Netcraft:
Widespread Outages for World of Warcraft — World of Warcraft is experiencing lengthy downtime, and blaming its service provider for the outages. The virtual world, which now has more than 6 million users, also announced emergency maintenance outages overnight on a large number of game servers (known as "realms").
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Business Wire:
Buena Vista Games Announces 'Desperate Housewives' PC Game Based on ABC/Touchstone Television's Top-Rated, Golden Globe(R) Award-Winning Series — Brenda Strong to Lend Voice as Game's Narrator Mary Alice Young — BURBANK, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—March 24, 2006—Buena Vista Games, Inc. …
