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• Video: The iPad Can Also Run Windows 95 (Or Maybe Not) – I am not sure why you would want to ruin a perfectly good iPad by running Windows 95 on it, but the video above from Pavel Egorkin, a Russian social gaming developer, appears to show just such a hack. Impressive since the iPad jailbreak has yet to be released. Or maybe fake. You be the judge.
• Alfred Lin To Leave Zappos, Join Sequoia Capital – Alfred Lin, the COO/CFO of Zappos, has left the company and will join Sequoia Capital. Lin was the no. 2 executive at Zappos at the time of its acquisition by Amazon, and has had a nearly flawless resume as an entrepreneur over the years. Every company he’s worked for has been acquired, and the smallest deal was $265 million. See our post “Alfred Lin Has The Midas Touch: The Man With $2 Billion In Acquisitions Under His Belt.”
• Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh Reassures The Troops, Announces, Hints At New Secret Project – Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh sent an email to all Zappos employees today after the announcement of Alfred Lin’s resignation. He reassures everyone that he and Fred Mossler, the no. 3 executive, would not be leaving the company.
• Bebo’s Awkward Email To Media Partners – AOL needs to offload Bebo fast. And tax experts say that the best financial result for AOL may be to simply abandon Bebo rather than sell it. All of that makes for a rather awkward situation with Bebo partners.
• Is Steve Jobs Ignoring History, Or Trying To Rewrite It? – Very few people get the chance to make history. Even fewer get the chance to make it twice. Perhaps that is why it is so fascinating to watch Steve Jobs as he tries to usher in the era of mobile touch computing today, just as he ushered in the era of the personal computer three decades ago. But I wonder whether he is repeating the very same mistakes which relegated Macs to a niche market. Or did he learn from those mistakes so that Apple comes out on top this time?
• Our Top YouTube Videos This Week – YouTube is truly a magical place, replete with singing children, dancing animals and — in short — some of the most random schtuff on the web. Every day, we wade through this digital jungle to find you the best viral vids, but sometimes there’s just too much good stuff to post.
• How Mega Charity Events Harness the Power of Social Media – For the past couple of years, the social web has witnessed mega charity events like Twestival, 12 for 12k, Tweetsgiving and CrisisCamps. These events harness the long tail, taking thousands of participants across cities and continents to achieve amazing results. Twestival alone has raised more than $1.2 million.
• Google Search Rankings Now Consider Site Speed – Back in November, we started hearing murmurs that Google was considering whether or not to factor site speed into its search ranking algorithm. In a blog post today, the search giant confirms it is now adding site speed to its list of criteria that could affect your Google ranking.
• How Publishers Plan to Monetize iPad Content – The release of the iPad has the publishing world wondering if paid digital content will put the industry back in the black. While e-books are showing strong growth (as seen by the first day’s downloads), the water is murkier when it comes to newspapers and magazines. All three of the industries are facing formidable challenges in transitioning from print to digital mediums, but some publishers are already taking some interesting approaches.
• Adobe Employee: Go Screw Yourself, Apple – In a recent blog post on The Flash Blog, Adobe Platform Evangelist Lee Brimelow goes on the offensive for seven paragraphs, ripping into Apple’s recent change to its iPhone Developer Program License Agreement that only allows for applications to be written in Objective-C, C, C++ or Javascript and executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine. In fact, the post was so strong that Adobe asked Brimelow to delete a segment.