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Adobe Evangelist Talks about the Good, the Bad and the Ugly in Silverlight
Serge Jespers, Adobe evangalist, talks about his experiences with Silverlight after finishing a 3-day hands-on, in-depth Silverlight course. Read on for a short summary of the article.
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Speculation On a Second Internet Economy Collapse
The first internet bubble popped largely because all business models
failed except for ad selling. Is it possible that the last stalwart
hope is itself doomed?
TechCrunch reports that Lookery, a
company specializing in selling ad inventory on social networks, is
barely breaking even despite selling 3 *billion* ads per month. And rather than raising prices to become profitable, they're actually in the uncomfortable position of lowering prices 40%
-- from 12.5 cents to 7.5 CPM. It reminds me of the (often
unintentional) joke "We lose money on every transaction, but we make it
up in volume!"
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Google in Final Negotiations to Acquire Digg For “Around $200 Million”
Google’s and Digg have reportedly signed a letter of intent and are close to a deal that will bring Digg under the Google News property. The acquisition price is in the $200 million range, says one source.
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Yahoo! Announces Settlement with Carl Icahn
Yahoo! announced today that it has reached an agreement with Carl Icahn, the stock holder that pushed for a Microsoft takeover. CCarl Icahn will be appointed to the Board and will support the current management.
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Microsoft Launches Live Mesh
Live Mesh puts allows you to share and synchronise files online. All you need is a valid Windows Live ID.
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Making the Switch To Windows "Workstation" 2008
Dissapointed with Vista? Why not convert Windows Server 2008 into the efficient OS that Windows should be? InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy, who has been using a converted 'Workstation' 2008 as his primary OS since hitting a wall using Vista as a Visual Studio development platform four months ago, says the guerrilla OS has turned his Dell notebook into a well-oiled machine that never gets sluggish and rarely needs to reboot.
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Live Scrolling via Ext’s LiveDataPanel Widget
A LiveDataPanel can enhance your site by deferring the load of
additional content until the user is ready to see it. Markup will never
be generated unless it’s needed and therefore the browsers DOM will
have a smaller footprint. Take a look at DZone for an example.
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Google Tests its new Up and Down Search Interface
Google has experimented with search features that let users vote on search results, and/or recommend other results than those given, since late 2007. Read MoreGeneral
Yahoo rejects joint Microsoft proposal
Yahoo rejected a proposal las Saturday to sell its search business to Microsoft Corp and hand over the remainder of the company to activist investor Carl Icahn.
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