"In a way we are all virtual stock holders in Twitter. We all have a vested interest in its success. Facebook is soon to monopolize the social stream to the same extent that Google has done with search. That is not good for anyone, including Facebook. I have had many discussions with people in recent weeks about the face-off between twitter and Facebook and also about the high probability of Twitter cutting a deal with Google. When I was asked by Erick Schonfeld at the Real Tiime Stream Crunchup (Video) event about my opinion on Twitter giving Google their firehose feed, I responded that they could do that if they don’t plan to sell their company in the future. In other words, it is my humble opinion that if Twitter was a publicly traded stock its value would drop by 75% the second that deal was announced and for good reason."
- Raymundo Roxas
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Fine tuning my google reader; updating my profile, adding friends etc. just in case friend feed goes away. BTW my google reader is on http://www.google.com/reader...
Just like the fiction book i just finished "Paranoia" by Joseph finder, excellent book and to think i downloaded it for free from amazon.
- Raymundo Roxas
"Want your kid to become one of the richest people in the world? Send them to Harvard. The Cambridge, Mass., school tops our first-ever billionaire college study with an alumni base that features 54 10-figure titans, more than 5% of the world's billionaires. Of those 54 plutocrats, 11 received an undergraduate degree, 41 earned a master's, doctorate or juris doctorate, and two earned two degrees."
- Raymundo Roxas
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what a lucky or would it be unlucky brake?
- Raymundo Roxas
Fwd: The boyfriend has a habit of reformatting his hard drive, but also of losing important driver CDs. Is there a way that I could make a restore disk a la what Dells ship with? He's running XP. (via http://friendfeed.com/welovea...)
Peer-to-Peer Education: Bringing Elite Education to the Masses About a year ago, a friend posed to me the following question: ”Why do students plunk down $150,000 for a 4-year education at MIT when virtually all of the courseware is available free of charge online?” Not only was it a great question, but answering it is critical to bringing elite... - http://gigaom.com/2009...
Friday Poll: Awaiting the Zune HD | Crave - CNET This week, Microsoft let more Zune HD details out of the bag. The black 16GB version of the upcoming touch-screen media player will sell for $219.99, while a 32GB version in a "platinum" shade will cost $289.99. - http://news.cnet.com/8301-17...
[H]ard|OCP - Urine-Powered Cars Coming Soon?A scientist has developed a catalyst that can extract hydrogen from urine and says it could be used to power hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in the near future. Garadine Botte hasn’t received much federal funding for her project, though she’s got some people in the Department of Defense interested. Now... - http://www.hardocp.com/news...