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FireFox 3, Mac Speed Demon: A Firefox [...]

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Yesterday I was filmed for a documentary about 30-something women called Seeking Happily Ever After, which looks at why today’s 30-somethings give themselves permission to take more time to select a spouse. People seem to things I know about these things, I really don’t, I’m a 39 year-old single guy who sits in front of [...]

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Uh oh, turns out Comcast paid people to sit in on the FCC Net Neutrality hearing at Harvard yesterday. I cannot tell you how much this disgusts me. Almost enough to switch to DirectTV, but their Internet service leaves a lot to be desired. Whoever was responsible should be fired, but not before being forced [...]

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If you’re reading this blog I thought you might want to know about this. I got this from the community leader from my old South End block, where I don’t live anymore. How did this slip under my radar? Agenda seems balanced between policy and technology and I’m going to try to make the [...]

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Behold the brilliant t-shirts from Venture Capital Wear, via Venture Hacks.
My favorites:
Don’t pitch me, bro!
Your Mom is not a valid test market.
I wouldn’t use that term sheet as toilet paper.
Ha!

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Bob Lefsetz’s music industry blog has a great set of comments about how Guitar Hero and rock Band are turning people, especially kids, onto a lot of classic rock and other songs they might not normally be exposed to. The comments about 3 year olds knowing the words to “Smoke on the water” are hilarious.
A [...]

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Interesting article in the Times today about YouNoodle, which claims it can predict the success of startups. Telling point, they haven’t run themselves through their own system. I think the primary value of the site will be connecting people, the predictor sounds like a gimmick. I wonder what they are basing their analysis on, historical [...]

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MySpace plans to announce that it has formed a business incubator called SlingShot Labs to spawn Internet start-ups for News Corporation’s growing empire of Web properties, which now includes The Wall Street Journal’s WSJ.com as well as the video game site IGN, according to BusinessWeek. The new venture is seeded with $15 million to hire [...]

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I’ve run across Get Satisfaction a number of times in recent months. Today I was setting up PBWiki and saw the support link went to Get Satisfaction’s PBWiki category. I love the idea of aggregating support into a single site. I would hope that in the future they enable the ability to search for multiple [...]

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