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Woot, woot! Check it - our very own dashboard widget!

A lunch conversation today regarding Apple and Sony eventually revealed the name of a one James Higa, currently Jobs’ behind-the-scenes right-hand man and long-time SV executive; a Google search reveals early days with Apple, then on to NEXTSTEP, a few years at RealNetworks, and now currently back helping Steve. But it’s his time with [...]

Matt Veenstra at Tribenetworks seems to think Google’s $4billion will go towards acquiring Skype. Just to play the rogue speculator, I’m gonna gamble that part of it is going towards a deal with Apple; Google teaming up with the iTunes Music Store could prove a veritable challenge to Yahoo!’s growing music streaming services. Of [...]

Hear, hear! Jeff Jarvis has a great post for old-economy models. Two choice quotes:
Equity no longer grows from exclusivity.
But in this new age, you don’t want to own the content or the pipe that delivers it. You want to participate in what people want to do on their own. You don’t want to extract [...]

Those behind a corporate firewall yet want to try out Google’s new “talk” service using iChat may find this link helpful. Basically iChat currently doesn’t let you configure proxy settings for its Jabber client, so you have to create a tunnel. Enjoy!

A moment of silence for Dr. Moog. He created an industry, and changed many lives (… and some might say he created many lives as well). Moog passes on.

Okay, this is weird. My daily Google News mail feed sent this article on the old Sony Clie as “news”. It’s 5 years old! Looks like the Google News bots are crunching faster than news is generated :) Someone’s got a bit more tweaking to do!

Balancing Point - clever short film on some Jedi tactics.

Jared Diamond on where the Japanese came from. via marxy.

This guy does some amazing pavement drawings, bar none.