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Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, is giving up on the company. It has been “upstaged” by Twitter, Facebook, et al. And, it had a shaky upgrade some time back. I reckon it dead. Kevin is rumored to have new ventures in the works… we will see if he can bounce back… I wouldn’t bet against him!
Shame about Digg, though… it was a good ride!
Sigh. I don’t have a Zune… but I hear it was pretty good. And, the Zune Marketplace is supposed to be pretty cool too. Also, the Zune at least kept Apple “honest” by offering SOME competition for the iPod. But, these days with music on your phone (like my DroidX), I suppose it was inevitable!
“After five years of false starts, word is leaking out that Microsoft is giving up on its much-maligned portable music player.” In the article at the link above, Mark Horowitz gives an “ode to the Zune!” Alas, poor Zune, we knew thee!
IE9 just came out this past week. Firefox 4.0 is supposed to be released on Tuesday of next week. However, Microsoft reports that 2.3 million downloads of IE9 occurred in the first 24 hours of its release! Zowie! Has Firefox lost before it starts? Probably not… but, I am sure it is “sobering” for Mozilla! Then again, Google’s Chrome upgrades itself with NO fanfare, and just keeps working better and better! I’d say IT is the one to watch!