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File: March 2006

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It was only a matter of time. TPM and EFI be damned. We saw the screenshots a couple days ago, but that was met with a lot of whiners looking for videos and more proof. So where’s the pudding? Fuzzy pictures of Windows booting on an Intel iMac Fuzzy video of Windows booting Forum posts [...]

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After all the hand-wringing that was my Five Buck Idea article (and yes, it was targeted at the Internet-based startup), look at what comes across the feeds today… Google acquires SketchUp Dell acquires AlienWare Wow. Okay, the Dell one is just an unconfirmed rumor, but still. Guess real stuff still gets acquired every now and [...]

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2006-03-11 :: mark // Internet
I’ve been Redd!

/me blushes. Somehow I got on reddit.com and del.icio.us popular on the same day. And on my birthday no less! Many people are confused about my writing style. For those that know me, many of the ideas I write about are ones that I believe in. However, the way I see the whole Web 2.0 [...]

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2006-03-08 :: mark // Internet
30 Boxes, we hardly knew ya

Today TechCrunch showed off some screenshots from the much rumored Google Calendar — woefully dubbed CL2. The other online calendars are going to have a tough time when Google muscles into their turf. From a quick look at the screenshots, the calendar looks pretty hot. Nothing like the (IMHO) awful over-AJAXed Google Reader RSS feed [...]

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