I’m currently in Europe on a family vacation. We’ve been here 3 days now and in that time I’ve driven almost 1000 kilometers (about 600 miles) on the highways and byways of France. We’re in the Rhone Alpes section of France, living in a 200 year old converted barn literally in the shadow of Mont [...]

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Kevin Johnson, who was arguably the primary architect of the now apparently failed Yahoo acquisition, is leaving Microsoft to run Juniper Networks. Simultaneously the company is reorganizing the division that Johnson ran (”Platform Services”) into two: Windows and Windows Live + Online Services. Here’s the official Microsoft announcement from yesterday.
The company announced no immediate [...]

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Great news for Internet marketers and e-commerce: more shoppers are purchasing goods via the Internet because of the high gas costs.
The New Atlantis exposes the "myth of multitasking." Well, there goes my built-in excuse to Rand whenever he asks me why I’m browsing Etsy instead of doing site reviews. Crap. [...]

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I’ve written about my Omron pedometer once before, but I wanted to mention it again because I like it so much. Recent research suggests that using a pedometer can lead to more walking and better health.I’ve been carrying a pedometer for a little over a year now, and I’ve done almost four million steps since [...]

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Squidoo, Mahalo, eHow, EzineArticles, etc etc etc just got validation for their business models and competition for the ad network that helps them monetize their sites. Google today launched their Knol project:
The key principle behind Knol is authorship. Every knol will have an author (or group of authors) who put their name behind their content. [...]

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