Robin Majumdar 2.0

Well, Michael Arrington is reporting over at TechCrunch that several inside sources at both Google and Digg are reviving the rumour mill that GOOG is digging Kevin Rose’s hugely popular (and often much-hated) Digg.com.

Apparently, the price is said to be in the $200M range…. and is within 2 weeks of being announced.

I’m surprised a bit at the dollar number and I think it isn’t so much for the intellectual property (err, Digg algorithms) but for the huge user base and very sticky audience that Digg enjoys.

Will Kevin Rose be moving to the GooglePlex?

Comme on dit en français: à suivre.

Well, I’ve been looking to renew my Bell Mobility account with a newer device and take advantage of a retention plan offer - Bell wanting to keep me with them - and was surprised that my current best bang for the buck device and plan; the HTC Touch combined with Bell’s $7/month unlimited data plan for that phone….

was out of stock “temporarily” on the Bell site.

Well I learned from a source that the device isn’t actually out of stock - in reality, Bell Mobility had to pull the HTC Touch smartphone because BellMo didn’t have bilingual (i.e. French) user interfaces on the HTC Touch phone.

This is kind of incredible… to think that a company as large as Bell Mobility would miss an obvious requirement of bringing a device to market with interfaces, manuals and the like in both languages.

In the meantime, my Audiovox 8910 CDMA camera phone is still MIA.

I’ve been preparing (yeah, on a Sunday) for a series of hands-on training sessions I will be giving to knowledge workers in Ottawa this coming week and have been defragging and optimising the IM issues in my mind. Although I am a tech guy, I have always kept IM and KM issues close to my heart and remember… IT exists primarily to provide IM solutions!

It’s rare that I see such eloquently simplified presentations such as Clay Shirky has done in Ontology is Overrated: Categories, Links, and Tags …

There’s a good reason why that particular piece is PageRank 6! If you have to explain modern ways of managing information, or why the file system is dead (yes, the file system is dead, finito) and how the Internet has changed the way we manage information…

This article is a must to understand modern ontology…. and why it doesn’t always work.

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