Office 12 Preview Screenshots at Bink [http://bink.nu/Article4818.bink] , NeoWin [http://www.neowin.net/comments.php?id=30382&category=main], xBetas [http://pdc.xbetas.com/?page=o12preview1] and in the Microsoft PDC 2005 Image Gallery [http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/events/pdc/gallery.mspx] as well.…
eBay buys Skype [http://www2.ebay.com/aw/core/200509120351572.html]. Why is the online auctioneer spending $2.6 billion to buy a $60 million Internet phone company that has yet to turn a profit? Why [http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2005/09/ebay_and_skype.html], well why…
Maeda’s SIMPLICITY: Yahoogle! [http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/SIMPLICITY/archives/000263.html] – a visual screenshot-based timeline of the UI evolution of Yahoo and Google. The verdict? Simplicity is about staying simple!…
> You don’t get investment for just an idea. It’s extremely rare. If you want to be an entrepreneur, stop believing that ideas matter. That isn’t what entrepreneurship is about. Entrepreneurs aren’t idea people, everybody and their brother has ideas. Entrepreneurs are people that exploit ideas…
What if your keyboard had no inscription on the keys – a blank keyboard! It may sound obscure but DasKeyboard [http://www.daskeyboard.com/] has a reason to do just that. Since there is no key to look at when typing, your brain will quickly adapt and memorize the key positions…
Do you have a really cool and “out of the box” statement to insult Microsoft? Hey, give it a go [http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/09/08.html#a11057].…
Come visit Bill Gates in his office [http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=111598] – a short chat with Microsoft’s Chief Software Architect. A very informative and fun interview with the man himself. [by Robert Scoble [http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/]]…
How comets may have ‘seeded’ life on Earth [http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0908/p04s01-stss.html] – Some scientists have long held the notion that comets delivered many of the chemical building blocks of organic life. NASA’s Deep Impact mission to comet Tempel 1 has substantially strengthened their case.…