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What MySpace's Tom Anderson thinks of Facebook and Google+

We very well know what MySpace was and where it stands today. Tom Anderson the co-founder of MySpace says something about todays social giant Facebook and newly born Search giant's social baby Google+. He never spoke before about the failure of his company but he explined about Google+ in his post on G+ and gave some idea why they failed. Check it out. " Google+ seems like a "reaction" to Twitter/Facebook. But are you starting to see the ways that Google+ just makes Google a better, more integrated set of services? Google already has top-notch products in key categories--photos, videos, office productivity, blogs, Chrome, Android, maps and (duh) search. Can you start to see/imagine what Google+ does for Gmail? Picassa? Youtube? Not to mention search? The +1 system that Google now has control of (unlike Facebook Likes) can really influence and change the nature of their search. My original vision for MS was that everything got bette...

Some little known facts about Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs belongs to the league of famous college drop-outs that include Bill Gates ( Microsoft), Larry Ellison ( Oracle), Michael Dell (Dell) and Richard Branson (Virgin group).    Jobs, whose personal wealth is about $9 billion, in early years survived on money he got from selling coke bottles and weekly free meals at Hare Krishna temple in Oregon.  Jobs traveled to India in search of spiritual enlightenment and took to Buddhism, shaved his head and wore Indian cloths. Worked with HP in Palo Alto in California where he met Steve Wozniak, with whom he founded Apple Publishing house Simon & Schuster is set to publish the authorized biography of Jobs in November that will include his resignation. In the multiple-Oscar winning Hollywood movie Forest Gump, the lead character by the same name, played by Tom Hanks, refers to Apple as "some sort of fruit company" whose shares Gump ends up owning. In July 1976, Apple sold its first PC, ...