At the sports economist — “A plan approved on Thursday by the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Division I Board of Directors would pay colleges up to $100,000 each if their athletes do particularly well in the classroom and a high percentage of them graduate every year.” Great, let’s set a higher bar for these kids, and continue to funnel money not to the kids but to the adults and institutions riding on their back.
Archive for October 31, 2005
Ignition in the press
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PC software state
Phil on tagging and search history — “The race is on to push more and more browser state out into the cloud from the PC, and to more seamlessly blur browsing, tagging, and authoring.”
It shouldn’t be just browser state. All PC state should be moving into the cloud. Increasingly this is one of the top criteria I use to eval software.
Interesting hardware from the last couple weeks
- Phil makes the switch to a mac. I like my mac mini. don’t love it, but like it. wish it networked better with all my pcs — the fact that it doesn’t automount remote shares on reboot is sucky.
- Rich likes the Medusa headphones for gaming.
- 200 cd sony media center pc.
- intel cache technology to speed up boots — “The new cache utilizes NAND flash memory and boots from that instead of the hard drive.”
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Web 2.0 business articles
- Top Web2.0 VCs — some of these guys are going to make a lot of money.
- Phil Bogle on the need for a more sophisticated economy for web2.0 services
- Everything Tom writes is worth reading
CharlesF Blogging
Via scoble, charles’ blog. Brilliant guy. One of the people at MSFT I really miss working with. Wish your blog didn’t look like crap in firefox, charles. Other great MSFTees I see leaving via minimsft — hadi partovi and don gagne. Also great guys and also wish i had the chance to work with them again.
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