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Received Pandora's new music notification email. Pandora is almost always running while I'm working on mac. Awesome!

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via: twitter.com

I still don't get it. Why would so many folks retweet the above tweet? Spoiling the user experience on Twitter.

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Really liked the Gonegoogle website. (via: Google Blog)

This is how closely you should know your target customers. What makes them tick? What's holding them back? Why they are not buying your product? Kudos to Google!

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You know the business lore joke. The departing CEO meets his successor and hands him three envelopes to be opened in the prescribed order when trouble strikes. First crisis, the message in envelope #1 says: Blame your predecessor. Easy enough. Another storm, the the CEO opens the second envelope: Reorganize. Good idea. And when calamity strikes yet again, he reaches for the third: Get three envelopes…

...Spanning the January 2000 - May 2010 period. Microsoft’s stock dropped from $56 to $25.80... while Apple shares rose from $25 to $256.88...

One of Microsoft’s problems, paradoxically, is that it makes a lot of money. It can spend 15% of revenue in R&D—about $9B a year—with no market breakthrough to show for it. Great concept demos and prototypes… and then nothing. (How many new Googles, Facebooks, and Twitters could we VCs fund with that kind of money?…)

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Is Steve Ballmer Really The Best Choice to Run Microsoft's Consumer Business?

At a time when Microsoft is facing challengers to its desktop operating system,productivity suite and handsets, you wouldn’t think the company would be changing up officers on its front lines, yet that’s exactly what’s happening. Robbie Bach and J. Allard, both of whom were instrumental in creating consumer products through Microsoft’s Entertainment & Devices Division, are leaving the company as part of a broader reorganization, reports TechFlash. As a result, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s CEO, will initially gain greater control over the division, which includes the Xbox, Zune and Windows Mobile products.... Details on what led to the shakeup are sketchy, but more concerning is what the restructure means going forward — the departure of Bach and Allard is a huge loss for Microsoft. Add in the fact that Ballmer is often out of touch with what consumers actually want and the loss is potentially magnified, depending on how much involvement he actually has in these product areas going forward.

OK Seriously, What is Yahoo?

Remember that Bartz was paid $47.2 million by Yahoo in 2009 – top among all Standard & Poor’s 500 companies. She’s being paid very well for her job. This is a question that she must be ready to answer, to the press, to shareholders, to the world and, most importantly, to her employees. Right now Yahoo doesn’t know what they are or where they’re going. And until they do, they can’t become whatever it is that they want to be.

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