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Um...Microsoft has always had a place for Apple software on their web site. They sell more Mac software than anybody!

Many trials do use questionnaires, particularly for large jury pools.

"Tweeps?" Really? Ugh.

You're operating from a fundamentally incorrect (and possibly willfully clueless) assumption here. Links to torrents aren't illegal. It's just as illegal to post a link to a torrent as it is to describe the location of a murder.

You're operating from a fundamentally incorrect (and possibly willfully clueless) assumption here. Links to torrents aren't illegal. It's just as illegal to post a link to a torrent as it is to describe the location of a murder.

You're operating from a fundamentally incorrect (and possibly willfully clueless) assumption here. Links to torrents aren't illegal. It's just as illegal to post a link to a torrent as it is to describe the location of a murder.

You're operating from a fundamentally incorrect (and possibly willfully clueless) assumption here. Links to torrents aren't illegal. It's just as illegal to post a link to a torrent as it is to describe the location of a murder.

Peoples' aversion to flashing banners are a small part of the reason for Google's success. A much more important reason is PageRank.

Chuq is really good people. He's got an enormous tailwind behind him -- the new Palm platform is really going to give Apple et al. a run for their money.

Tagging is not complex. Non-relational key stores are not complex. Alerting is not complex. Most consumer web services needs these. Every builder of a consumer web service wastes time building these. They do belong in a framework (or more correctly as modules in a framework).

"The industry needs desperately toward moving toward metrics that take into account meaning" doesn't mean anything.

Not a huge deal for us since we can get Amazon stuff on our Tivo already, but I guess it's good to have choices.

Blame the horrible unions all you want, but the auto companies won't be able to balance their books on the backs of their workers. The delta between the wages earned by Michigan-based auto workers and nonunion auto workers only accounts for a few hundred dollars in the cost of a car (this from a NY Times piece that ran this week).

Corker isn't standing up for truth and justice and he's not interested in saving the country's economy. He's engaging in a kind of regional trade protectionism, trying to help workers in his state at the expense of Michigan-based workers.

We'll hit this on Saturday night, thanks for the recommendation!

The corresponding takeoff video is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHmIR1JJXyw

As someone who spent two years chasing local news right out of college, I can confirm your assertion -- these guys aren't attacking the right problem. While it would probably work to outsource certain kinds of newsgathering (think police blotter), the high cost of reportage hasn't been the core problem of print journalism for at least twenty years.

Um, eBay took venture money.

I signed up for the alpha last week and I'm looking forward to trying this out, it looks awesome.

Fred, I was curious, since this installs on Apple TV, isn't this sort of like a jailbroken application? What happens if Apple decides they don't like what these guys are doing?

This was great, thanks for coordinating Scott!

Adios, carpetbaggers. Hope you do a better job making stuff up about New York than you did about Silicon Valley.

"Schools that allow 2 "for credit" internships are cutting their faculty overhead by 5%!"

You're assuming that universities are run like businesses, which hardly ever the case. It's also not the case that the number of faculty is correlated to the demand for classes. In nearly all public and private universities, teaching is the weak third leg of a footstool (the other two legs are research and publishing). No professor ever got tenure because she was solely a great teacher (unless she was also a distinguished researcher and published lots of papers).

You could do all that. Or you could do the more sensible thing, which is to not play the role of nanny for current or prospective employers.

What company do you hire for so I know never to go to work there?

Clearly what we're seeing here is a demo of the oft-rumored /dev/null codec through which any content is automatically rendered to be invisible. Well done team!

It's a myth that we've *ever* had "laissez-faire capitalism". Markets have always had rules, going back to ancient times. The only question is what the rules are and who enforces them.

Facebook is not a startup.