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RedHat was a no-show at LinuxWorld, leaving most vendors and attendees scratching their heads.

I hate wasting people's time and I can imagine how frustrating it must be to sit there and hit "refresh". All of those "refreshes" are also crushing our servers.

The first thought that flashed through my mind was, “holy crap, Apple is finally going to get it. Steve and Co. will get that Gmail is giving 1gb away for free,

If the whole web 2.0 thing teaches us anything it is that the web is the primary operating system of choice

There was a time in Mohammad Yousuf's career when Rameez Raja could not resist bracketing "lazy elegance" next to his name.

Billy Doctrove, is so new to the elite panel as to be almost meaningless in terms of having influence over events

In short, this is a brilliant idea that needs some serious tweaking. ---- Seth Godin's Web 2.0 Watch List, built with alexaholic, is a fabulous idea. I wish I'd thought of it. Rankings are fun and thought-provoking, and as Seth figured, they also get lots of attention!

It’s a fascinating prospect even if it seems unlikely to succeed. The way it works is this: bands upload sample music to Sellaband.com, promote the heck out of their profile page and ask fans to chip in $10 per share of a recording that will be

Meetro, which is a standalone program that lets you connect with other users in your vicinity, and Meebo, which allows you to connect to several popular IM clients from you browser. So take those two, squish them together, and you get an idea of what RadiusIM is all about.

At $5 per month for 3 projects and $80 for unlimited projects, ZohoProjects undercuts Basecamp on price; Basecamp charges $12 and $149 for 3 or unlimited projects.

There are a number of features that stand out, including

Some players advised him to go, but the decision finally came after a meeting with Ali Bacher, at the time the key man in South African cricket

My initial take - especially after having posted about speculation that Jobs may have stock options problems at Pixar - was that Apple needed someone of Schmidt's stature as a potential CEO successor to Jobs

The way Dvorak sees it, Sun's server genius, Andreas von Bechtolsheim, a good friend of Schmidt's, may actually be behind the move