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NY Times: Intel Quits Effort to Get Computers to Children
A frail partnership between Intel and the One Laptop Per Child educational computing group was undone last month in part by an Intel saleswoman: She tried to persuade a Peruvian official to drop the country’s commitment to buy a quarter-million of the organization’s laptops in favor of Intel PCs.
This will always be the struggle when a company who supports a philanthropic endeavor that has the potential to circumvent their profits.
Performancing Blog: Reader’s Choice Award
Performancing is running a Reader’s Choice Awards. I was happy to see some of my favorite blogs on the list:
- Darren Rowse (ProBlogger)
- Seth Godin (Seth’s Blog)
- Brian Clark (Copyblogger)
- SEO Book Blog
Seth Godin: Marketer of the Year, 2007
Very relevant to my analysis yesterday. Seth calls a dead heat between Ron Paul and Barack Obama.
OnStartups: Ga-ga for Groups? LinkedIn is Lame, Facebook is Fantastic
I have to agree here. LinkedIn has never manifested a proper groups experience which is ironic given their networking purview. I created a Facebook group tonight and it was up and running in minutes.
Washington PC: "Eee" Could have Meant Excellent
Rob Pegoraro weighs in and says the Asus Eee has potential but gives the Linux ultra-portable a big thumbs down.
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