Category Archive for 'general'

Can you survive for 24 hours without your computer?

Posted in general on Apr 17th, 2008

If you don’t think you can, you should definitely try.
The idea behind Shutdown Day is to find out how many people can go without a computer for one whole day, and what will happen if we all participate.

Links:

http://www.shutdownday.org/

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What makes sense in Microsoft taking shares in Facebook?

Posted in general on Oct 26th, 2007

Everybody now heard and read about Microsoft’s decision to take 1.6 % of Facebook. A 240 M$ deal. Not so bad. But what does this mean?
The official answer is that Microsoft will be Facebook’s exclusive advertising company. Is that truly worth 240 M$?
There probably more behind this.
What will this mean for Microsoft’s Live Spaces? It [...]

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