Quoted: Content restrictions rarely get more liberal, which is what made a joint announcement from Microsoft and the cable industry so interesting. Users will now be allowed to drop their own CableCARD tuning hardware into Windows 7 boxes, and can more freely move recorded TV to portable devices and other machines.

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Quoted: You followed all the rules and put together a diversified investment portfolio. But it still went down along with the rest of the market. What went wrong?

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Quoted: Brain rules is easily the best book I’ve read this year. I don’t say this lightly as I read many books, skim many more, and read lots of things I enjoy.

Quoted: The canonical product development model - concept, develop, alpha, beta, first customer, ship - is how Silicon Valley grew strong. But why does this process to build a business only succeed part of the time? And how can early stage ventures reduce their overall risk? Serial entrepreneur Steve Blank points out that most founding partners strongly focus on product and ship. But too often, startups confuse engineering's accomplishments with marketing and sales success, and they pop the champagne corks too soon.

Quoted: TED has earned a lot of attention over the years for many reasons, including the nature and quality of its short-form conference presentations. All presenters lucky enough to be asked to speak at TED are given 18-minute slots maximum (some...