Posts Tagged ‘bill gates

I worked at post-DOJ-spanked Microsoft. I saw firsthand how wimpy Bill Gates got (I had a lunch with him and Mike Arrington where we talked about whether Microsoft would let us acquire interesting new companies. “No way” was the basic answer. Funny that back then they could have purchased Skype for $2 billion, not listening [...]

Britney Spears has joined Tumblr by way of her blogging intern. The blog itself is not spectacularly interesting — unless, perhaps, you’re a die-hard Spears fan who follows her every quotation and press release — but it does underline communication professionals’ growing awareness of Tumblr as a media platform. Although many big-name fashion and media [...]

Britney Spears has joined Tumblr by way of her blogging intern. The blog itself is not spectacularly interesting — unless, perhaps, you’re a die-hard Spears fan who follows her every quotation and press release — but it does underline communication professionals’ growing awareness of Tumblr as a media platform. Although many big-name fashion and media [...]

Salman Khan: Let’s Use Video to Reinvent Education: Speaking of homeschooling in yesterday’s post, here’s a TED video worth watching. An alternate title for this talk might have been, “Let’s Just Reinvent the Entire Educational System.” This is the first I’ve seen of Salman Khan, and clearly he’s not just a talented educator but a [...]

Bill Gates has led ambitious philanthropic efforts in global health, development and education through his Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates will curate a TED Session called “Knowledge Revolution.” Speakers include Salman Khan, the founder of popular “YouTube university,” Kahn Academy. Historian David Christian, development worker Amina Az-Zubair and epidemiologist Bruce Aylward will also be [...]


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