Are Google and Amazon the Next Great Hope for the (Linux) Desktop? »

There was a time when I thought the Linux desktop was going to take a market share at least equal to Apple’s. Maybe even 5% or 10% of the total desktop market. I had high hopes that the One Laptop Per Child Initiative would put Linux laptops in the hands of impressionable young minds who [...]

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2008 The Year of the Acquisition: Microsoft Bids on Yahoo!, Amazon buys Audible »

Is 2008 going to be the Year of the Acquisition? Activity in 2007 was on the rise but now things seem to be at full speed.

I remember when Alta Vista and Excite! were the hot search engines, my how the world has changed.  It looks like it’s narrowing down to a two horse race [...]

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How Barnes and Noble’s Stupid Website Cost them My Sale »

I received an email from Barnes and Noble this week offering me 25% off my next purchase online on top of my Barnes and Noble Membership discount. I deleted tons of email this week but I was looking to pre-order Seth Godin’s Meatball Sundae so I saved the coupon so I could make the purchase [...]

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Links 11-30-2007 »

ComputerWorld:Zenoss: New dog masters old monitoring tricks
Good article on Zenoss, I particularly like this quote it sums up our value prop put more elegantly than we do on our own.  
Zenoss’ key strength is a unified design that collects many types of information from numerous sources and displays them in an intelligent way. While many [...]

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