Links posted on April 28, 2008
Marc Andreessen has a great break-down of Microsoft's potential hostile takeover of Yahoo! at his blog. The takeaway message is that the tech industry appears to have matured enough that we'll be seeing more of the same types of things that used to be left strictly to older businesses.
Foreign Policy is having a vote for the world's top intellecutals. Choose from their list of 100, which includes quantum gravity researcher (who has been willing to avoid embracing string theory full force) Lee Smolin, but includes Larry Summers (boo) and a good deal of other recognizable names (Paul Krugman, Fareed Zakaria).