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Microhoo story of the day. Now Yahoo will bust itself up for the benefit of Microsoft. Yeah, um, OK! Is the OLPC dead. One columnist besides myself thinks so, maybe. Asterdata shows up on the scene. I go over their odd bios on the website. Napster rolls out 6 million unprotected MP3′s.

Currently can’t fork out $125k for one of these bad boys, and there’s a year or so wait for one anyway. Still, maybe a used one in a few years will be a good buy at around $100k! The car pictures is serial #0001. Very cool car. Photo courtesy of Jason Calacanis. 05042008004 Originally uploaded [...]

I finally have gotten around to upgrading my WordPress blogs to 2.5.  What an achievement in UI and usability improvements!   Aside from the much improved UI, WP-2.5 also includes an automatic plug-in update feature.  When you go into your Dashboard, and select plug-ins, you’ll see the familiar list of plug-ins.  However, if the plug-in [...]

Always interesting to see how these companies operate and look like inside.  This is part one.  Direct URL 

Want to “beautify” your WordPress experience on the administrative side?  Check out WP Tiger Admin by Steve Smith.  You can view screen shots and download the plugin at http://orderedlist.com/wordpress-plugins/wp-tiger-administration/  I highly recommend this for cleaning up the WP interface.  His design looks very pro, with left navigation of all functions, which makes it great on [...]

Microsoft: Loan required for acquisition of YahooCould this be the beginning of the end for Microsoft?  Getting too big for their britches?  Microsoft has been notoriously debt free, with tons of cash in the bank.  I know it would be stupid to use available cash for this acquisition, but maybe Microsoft needs to take a [...]

PodShow seems like a really good idea.  Develop a powerful content delivery network where people can produce their own shows and upload them to a central site for distribution.  If your show is really good and gets a following, PodShow will pick it up, have you sign their (controversial) contract and you’ll be recognized as [...]

When creating an RSS Feed (or Atom, if that’s your flavor), how do you decide the level of information you want to provide in your feed?  Many sites decide to post only the headline in their feed, causing the reader to visit the site, thereby enhancing page-view counts.  At the other extreme, others decide to [...]