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Why Elevation Partners Invested 425M in Palm: Tech Ticker, Yahoo! Finance
"Roger McNamee of Elevation Partners is a well-known investor in both Wall Street and Silicon Valley. But two years ago, when he invested 20 percent of his private equity fund in smart phone has-been Palm, even his biggest fans were doubters."
SMIL animation and 3D canvas library for Firefox
"As the demand grows for more sophisticated web applications, a very clear need has emerged for new, standards-based technologies that can expand the expressiveness and versatility of the medium. One standard that has long been neglected by browser implementors is the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (SMIL). Mozilla has recently taken a big step towards bring SMIL to the masses: after five years of development, a preliminary SMIL implementation for Firefox has landed."
My Vision
"The Dream
My mother can build an application to track her recipes.
My young daughters can learn how to program a computer in a rich, interactive way.
My wife is able to access, transform, and report on all our family data in a free-form and unconstrained manner."
Nice!
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