December 2010
5 posts
Dec 27th
Dec 23rd
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Book publishers are missing a big opportunity to sell their books as eBooks and cut out the middleman. Also of note, for the above reason Amazon has an interest in not supporting ePub on the Kindle as it would allow competition with the Amazon Kindle store. It’s disappointing, really. Imagine if when the iPod was introduced that it could only play music from the iTunes store, and the...
Dec 15th
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Great Service: LinkedIn reset passwords for...
dbreunig: Just received an email from LinkedIn asking me to reset my password as my old one has been deactivated. Sure enough, my log-in for LinkedIn is the email associated with Gawker. Smart move: take advantage of the published passwords to squash false log-ins before they start.
Dec 14th
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Andrew Sullivan offering some hope post-tax deal: At some point, I suspect, the Congress will have to decide between extending the payroll tax holiday or keeping the Bush tax cuts for millionaires - the double-track of the current Keynesian deal. I think Obama wins on that one, and has set up the kind of future choice the GOP really doesn’t want to make. … The more often...
Dec 9th