Bill Gates Retiring From Microsoft
Bill Gates announced his decision to retire from Microsoft in 2008 to focus his attention on the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, aimed at fighting infectious disease and improving high schools. This must be music to his rivals in Silicon Valley.
In the Microsoft Corp. press release, “Microsoft Corp. today announced that effective July 2008 Bill Gates, chairman, will transition out of a day-to-day role in the company to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The company announced a two-year transition process to ensure that there is a smooth and orderly transfer of Gates’ daily responsibilities, and said that after July 2008 Gates would continue to serve as the company’s chairman and an advisor on key development projects.”
For your information, microsoft boss Bill Gates was photographed by the Albuquerque, New Mexico police in 1977 after a traffic violation (details of which have been lost over time). How can it be lost? This a mystery. Read more about Bill Gates at wikipedia.
The New Digg On The Block
I just simply couldn’t believe this, a clone version of Digg – Netscape Beta? Where is the innovation? AOL has virtually copied all the features from Digg like how people leave a story, user vote for it and depending on the vote numbers, the story appears on the homepage or is buried down.
Another great blow to Netscape, the user interface is identical but from my experience, a sidebar will appear when you browse away from the protal, with the url of the blog masked. This kind of marketing strategy belongs in the 90’s. You have to give the user the freedom to navigate away and stop forcing them to stick with your portal. Google is a good example of how to build loyalty without bombarding them with ads.
But Digg is destined for bigger things than tech news. The above screenshot of Digg version 3 (not showing? wait for it), leaked from a beta tester a week before its launch, reveals categories for “Business” and “World News.” This should give Digg a leg up on AOL’s rumored general-interest Digg killer.
Source : Valleymag
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