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1. Joel Says:
   March 20th, 2006 at 10:31 am

   Without trying to sound to PC here, I believe the correct term is the Nowruz, which is Farsi for the Persian New Year

2. Keyvan Nayyeri Says:
   March 20th, 2006 at 10:44 am

   Thank you Robert and wish that you and your wife be sucess in this new year ;)
   Say to her: “Eide shoma mobarak”

3. Chris Meller Says:
   March 20th, 2006 at 10:46 am

   Sitting on the floor? Jeeze, I knew she wouldn’t let you get the HDTV, but I’d at least have thought she’d let you have a COUCH!

   Happy Iranian New Year! *blows party noise maker*

4. Keyvan Nayyeri Says:
   March 20th, 2006 at 10:51 am

   updated after reading Joel’s comment:
   Yes; That’s right.
   Another point is: this is not the new year just for Iranians, all Persian peoples around the world celeberate it. To find out where are they living search on Wikipedia :)

5. anonymous Says:
   March 20th, 2006 at 11:07 am

   http://www.flukiest.com/user/ducky

   This is the man who created myspace.com

   http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=2

   The CEO of the company is #6
   http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewProfile&friendID=6

   I’ve had some email convo’s with him. He now uses perl and linux to code his social networking website and has mvo

   On his blog recently he posted job opportunities for Perl and Linux developers only.

   http://blog.flukiest.com/2006/01/hardcore_perl_developer.html

   “You are down with the open source cause. If you or anyone you know is a hardcore LINUX/Unix, PERL, MySQL, Apache, Template Toolkit, SMARTY, MVC, PHP, HTML, AJAX, TCP/IP, Object Oriented geek than please contact me. Flukiest is looking for talented engineers to help build cool solid next generation technologies.”

   Interesting that he dropped windows and is now using Linux and open source to build his next gen open source explosion????

   … and here comes the payoff from MS. “Please don’t use them, they baddens.” Here’s free hardware and tons of money.

6. anonymous Says:
   March 20th, 2006 at 11:08 am

   That should read “his next gen social networking explosion????”

   I guess he learned the harsh lessons of windows, and upgraded into the future.

7. joeduck Says:
   March 20th, 2006 at 11:10 am

   Hey Scoble -

   I’m on the floor too, but I’m not sure what Bill just said about Web 2.0. He seems to see it as an extension of earlier MS developments. Is MS moving ahead in the new, open, wild spirit of 2.0 or kind of staying the course? Not sure you can do … both?

8. Robert Scoble Says:
   March 20th, 2006 at 11:21 am

   joeduck: it’s gonna be an interesting stretch for many Microsofties to make, that’s for sure!

   I see this: http://www.kaliyasblogs.net/Iwoman/?p=292 and you can see that we still don’t get the fundamental changes that are going on here.

   Will we get there? I think so. It’s just gonna take a lot of work to get there. It isn’t lost on me that MySpace already has more users than MSN. I’m sure it isn’t lost on Bill, either.

9. Robert Scoble Says:
   March 20th, 2006 at 11:22 am

   Chris: it’s standing room only and we let the paying customers have the seats.

10. anonymous Says:
    March 20th, 2006 at 11:33 am

    “It isn’t lost on me that MySpace already has more users than MSN. I’m sure it isn’t lost on Bill, either.”

    They ran a SPAM website called responsebase.com and ran spyware networks.

    “Intermix Management and other Insiders sold approximately $25 million of Intermix stock in full knowledge that the New York State Attorney General (NY-AG), Eliot Spitzer,would soon file a lawsuit against the company for
    certain adware promotion activity.” (7.5 Million Settlement)
    http://www.intermixedup.com/

    “ResponseBase was booted from their ISP as an illicit spam organization- with Tom Anderson himself listed as their billing contact. And later still, ResponseBase would be renamed to MySpace.”
    http://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Bloggers_investigate_social_networking_websites

    Who can’t get a huge base when they’re running one of the biggest spyware/spam operations in the us?
    Then when they got on the news for child endangerment issues, that did the rest.

    I’m pretty sure Gates wouldn’t want to go down the same road no matter the profit outcome because they permanently soiled the trademark.

11. Jack Yan Says:
    March 23rd, 2006 at 9:45 am

    I’ll be sure to use this as an excuse for taking it easy this week at work. I take it Nowruz celebrations last for a little while, right?

12. Duc Chau Says:
    March 31st, 2006 at 7:24 am

    FYI Myspace was originally in:

    1. MOD PERL
    2. MySQL
    3. SQL Server
    4. Apache

    when I was lead the development. They switch to Coldfusion as I was leaving to join another startup since they felt development would be faster for their existing staff. It so funny no one talks about the company that was orginally “MySpace” the Xdrive clone.

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