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2008 May 14

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What Does The Closing of PCClub Portend?

Yesterday at 5 PM, the doors of all PCClub locations closed, forever. Apparently there was no advanced notice to anyone, as indications on the ‘net show many employees were left out in the cold, with only a few hours notice, and no severance pay.
PCClub  was the last of the non-Big Box stores here in California, […]

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Buzz Blows By Digg… Yahoo!

For those who liked Digg, but have wondered where the site lost its way, Yahoo has had a service called Buzz, still in beta (isn’t everything these days?) which has become wildly popular, and seems to be making Digg totally unnecessary.
Web traffic analyst comScore is reporting that Yahoo’s Buzz social news service has already overtaken […]

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Why Not Simply Be Truthful?

Over at ZDNet, Ed Bott has, yet again, another article chronicling the XP versus debate and trying to shift the blame for Vista’s problems on a tendency for people to cling to the familiar.
He brings a few pieces of an article from 2001 to bear, and shows us that we (supposedly) had the same reaction […]