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YPulse points to yet another social networking site, gasp… for Beautiful People. Beautiful People got itself coverage in USA Today. Don’t bother visiting the site with any of these browsers - Safari, Camino and Firefox - i.e., the browsers of choice for the smart set. Message: BeautifulPeople.net is only supported by Internet Explorer. What’s [...]

Folks I am on multiple deadlines for the magazine this week so the posting has been slow. Perhaps it gives you all a chance to catch up on the reading… seriously, its been a rough week and I will likely be posting at crawl speed over the weekend as well.
On a seperate note, I am [...]

“The halo effect enabled them to go after PC users and sell them Apple products,” said Will Poole,, the Microsoft executive in charge of desktop operating system products.

Huawei, might be becoming a fixture in telecom bids around the planet, but its low-cost products are finding few takers among the US telecoms, reports The Wall Street Journal. The company which is on a tight leash from its masters in China made all the classic mistakes a foreign company would make in the US. [...]

Andy says “In marketing, it’s what makes you different that matters.” Andy is right, Michael Robertson should articulate why Gizmo is better! And it is - for many reasons. Open, elegant, simple to use, and it works with many different SIP networks.

Dan Gillmor discovered that Macromedia was putting stuff in the shopping basket which he did not order. They call it convenience, and it is everything but. I hope they fixed this glitch. One of Macromedia employees has been in touch and is working on getting it fixed. The company just emailed me and said they [...]