In the recent move allowing applications to reside outside of its main website, Facebook sets the stage to become the internet’s social backbone. The change allows Facebook to sell its #1 asset: the social graph as shortcut for all future social applications to launch features quickly while piggy-backing on Facebook’s existing user-base. I [...]

“Saying what we think gives us a wider conversational range than saying what we know.”
The most interesting conversations are the wildly speculative ones, where people take risks, throw in new ideas and toss out the bad ones, all in a single exchange. But there’s always that one person who spoils all the fun; call [...]

Finally, a format-war ends.  Honestly, I’m surprised.  HD-DVD players sharply underpriced Blu-Ray at every turn and for some odd reason consumers ended up preferring Blu-Ray.  Maybe the Playstation 3 “investment” finally pulled through and sprinkled enough BR players into people’s homes to build the critical mass that HD couldn’t with the stupid little Xbox add-on.

New way to dock

or is that hilarious.