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4ourth

  1. GM to stop advertising on Super Bowl as well as Facebook - looks like they've learned something
  2. Facebook IPO - a quiet "quiet period" All their investor relations pages are lifted from Wikipedia - Certainly nothing to Like
  3. Encyclopaedia Britannica ceases print publication (32 volumes, $1500) but continues online. RITC - rest in the cloud
  4. Apple App Store passed the 25 billion app download - progress or too many folks with not enough to do? bit.ly/yBiSmM
  5. Reverse Midas Touch Award to CommerceInsurance for an outstandingly poor online experience - some folks can neither code nor design 8-(
  6. Wynton Marsalis at iLab rapping on art/biz
  7. Such a Deal: Average price for this years Super Bowl tix was $2,991 - $78 less than last year bit.ly/yMJptF
  8. Had the pleasure of attending a concert at the reopened Gardner Museum The music is available online at bit.ly/ggIogy
  9. Compelling presentation of historical summary of international health data bit.ly/q6YFU0
  10. At the reopening of the Gardner Museum - the old renewed
  11. At MIT/IAP Biz Plan marathon
  12. What's yellow and 218 pages (16%) even scrawnier this year? The Boston Yellow Pages.
  13. What costs $3,500,000, lasts 30 seconds, is difficult to evaluate, and is already sold out? on.wsj.com/vm6V8B
  14. According to AddThis, most shared news item in '11 was Bin Laden's death bit.ly/t5Fiio
  15. Interesting very light weight collaboration tool - corkboard.me somewhere between IM and email
  16. We've seen this movie before - a Zuckerberg appology on.wsj.com/smqzTY
  17. At Harvard i-Lab haranging about the future of mobile
  18. Just restored a client's database (whew...) He ignored Douglas Adams' maxim - Don't Panic
  19. Unhelpful advice dept: After ordering RAM for a laptop, received confirming email - "before your memory arrives...add more memory"