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Apple vs Microsoft: The battle for customers
I posted this to a comment thread earlier this morning, but thought it was worth sharing (for both of you who actually follow what I post here at ManeyDigital): Apple build products for our kids; Microsoft/Dell build products for their parents and grandparents. Easy math to see why Apple is doing so well: they sell…
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Why Going on Tony Kornheiser’s Show is Wrong for Lance Armstrong
Earlier today, a good friend of mine posted something to her Facebook page. Here’s what it said: If you listen to the clip, ESPN’s Tony Kornheiser — no stranger to outlandish, suspension-related commentary — basically tells his readers it is okay to run down bicyclists on the road. My beef isn’t with Kornheiser’s actual comment…
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Lights! Camera! Action!
A short video tour of our team’s booth at Mobile World Congress 2010 in Barcelona. Yours truly shows up to add some witty commentary at the :54 mark.
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NSF: Interactive Journalism + Computer Science
I posted earlier about an innovative interactive journalism program called IJIMS. Here’s an update from Kim Pearson: Here’s a full-blown article from NSF about our Interactive Journalism Institute for Middle Schoolers, for which I’m co-Principal Investigator. Lots of FB folks to shout out -PI Ursula Wolz, co-PI Monisha Pulimood. Amy Gahran and Mitchel Resnick supported…
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Futuregeek
This is what the lid of a beat up, old ThinkPad x570 should look like. It’s like the mullet of laptops: business on the lid, Webkinz on the inside .
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Sam Whitmore: WSJ’s Bill Bulkeley laid off
In what world does something like this happen? The Wall Street Journal basically shuts down its Boston bureau and, in so doing, jettisons one of its top reporters. There are too many high profile, top-of-their-game reporters in free agency these days. The Fourth Estate is more than profits and losses…it’s the core of the checks…
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Mike Maney’s Daily Link Highlights
Mike's Story Cancer sucks. Read this first-hand account from one of the bravest people I know. (tags: cancer friends) Launching a start-up and having a family life: It’s possible! Good tips on "working to live" that are applicable whether you are building a startup or not. (tags: weekly_links tips entre entrepreneur startup family)
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Mike Maney’s Daily Link Highlights
MindTouch Wants You to (Safely) Crowdsource Your Business (ReadWriteWeb) MindTouch launches the second of three planned solutions under its Collaborative Network umbrella. (tags: weekly_links)
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Your vote counts!
I’ve had the pleasure of working not only with the company that sponsors the Sourceforge Community Choice Awards, but currently work with one of the most impressive companies currently in the running for the 2009 contest. That company is MindTouch. Using (and living) open source, MindTouch has built a powerhouse of a collaboration platform. The…
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