By Mark on Oct 30, 2007 in Linux, Open Source | 7 Comments
I played around with Ubuntu this weekend and I have been really impressed by everything, but I know many people still want to use a Windows desktop. So I thought I would give you ten reasons why you shouldn’t use Ubuntu so when your Ubuntu-loving friends tell you about it you can be armed [...]
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By Mark on Oct 23, 2007 in Google, Web Applications | 0 Comments
I read at the Download Squad that IMAP options were showing up in Gmail. So I logged into my account and sure enough, I had the option to enable IMAP.
This is very interesting, because there’s no ad stream when you checkvia IMAP. I wonder if we will start getting email advertisements or ifthere is [...]
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By Mark on Oct 21, 2007 in Open Source, Start-Ups | 0 Comments
Greg sent me this article at the New York Times,"Silicon Valley Start-Ups Awash in Dollars, Again" and Stacy says (via Matt ) Balmer is hunting for Open Source Start-Ups.
"We will do some buying of companies that are built around open-source products," Ballmer said during an onstage interview at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco.
A [...]
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By Mark on Oct 9, 2007 in Google | Comments Off
I can’t believe it Google (GOOG)shares closed at $609.52 yesterday. Yep that’s a huge and it puts theirmarket cap at $190.28 Billion in just over three years, Microsoft is at$289.55B and they IPO’d in March 1986, 22+ years ago.
Google’s IPO’d for $85 a share. Of course I didn’t participatebecause being so pragmatic I thought it [...]
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By Mark on Oct 7, 2007 in Blogging | 1 Comment
One day while searching for a good blog topic I listed the "10 Blogs to Read to Get Smart on Open Source". Now I think Alex is funning me since I listed Microsoft’s Port 25 as one of the ten. Don and some others had made some additional suggestions to my RSS reader,ironically [...]
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