• Koby out sick with Strep throat
  • Most sore throat's are viral infections and go away in a few days
  • Only a small portion are bacterial infections, its highly contagious, and spreads via air, surfaces.
  • Stopping medication early may lead to recurrences and serious complications, such as rheumatic fever or kidney inflammation.
• Microsoft (MSFT) withdraws the nearly $47.5B takeover bid for Yahoo! (YHOO)
  • Unsolicited bid by Microsoft (MSFT) to takeover Yahoo! (YHOO)
  • Announced in February
  • First offer $31, second $33, Y! wanted $37
  • All over for Yahoo? Said to be in talks with Google (GOOG), News Corp.'s MySpace.com (NWS), and Time Warner (TWX)
  • Google's shares rose $13.61
  • Take a look at this compare of MSFT, YHOO, GOOG, NWS, and TWX all together
    
• Skip an Ad? Not if you picked it
  • Hulu.com (Show #73)
  • Commercial Contests (T-Mobile NBA)
  • Al Gore's CurrentTV created VCAM = Viewer Created Advertising Messages
  • Targetted advert = more attention (see spike tv and G4)

• Microsoft Expands Zune Store and Updates Player
  • New software features and content to their all-in-one media store
  • "South Park", "Afro Samurai", "Battlestar Galactica", "The Ultimate Fighter", "Robot Chicken"
  • Approx. 160 Microsoft points per show ($1.99)
  • Subscription model available, $14.99 per month
  • New Store Software features
    • Drag and drop Zune cards (cards = friends playlists) to zune and they will be updated in real-time
    • Zune Pass Subscribers will automatically have friends songs downloaded to their zune
    • Non-Subscribers will have album art and information dl'ed only
    • Enhanced friends features (bio, location, etc)
    • Instant Friends - Media Moguls will automatically become friends for instant content and playlists
    • Album reviews (a la Amazon)
    • Reputation badges (a la ebay)
    • Windows Live Messenger will now pick up what ppl are listening to on Zune
  • Hardware Software updates
    • Auto playlists - Users can create an auto playlist that updates itself automatically as new music is added.
    • Browse videos - Consumers can browse their video collection by genre and series, plus they can preview videos before they play them on full screen.
    • Editing album and track information - Users are able to edit track or album information (metadata) quickly via multi-select and drag-and-drop. The advanced metadata editing features make it easy to edit multiple tracks or survey albums and artist information
    • Organizing collections - In addition to sorting by artist or album, consumers can now sort by genre. While browsing by genre they can further sort music by artist, album or release year.
    • Gapless playback - Consumers will now be able to listen to an album without the brief gap between tracks, both on their Zune and in the Zune software. This is a must-have for live-concert recordings and compilation albums.
    • Syncing groups - Zune software now syncs to multiple Zune players simultaneously. Users can prepare which content on their computer to sync even when their Zune isn’t connected - Consumers can create custom sync groups for music, pictures and videos.
    • Zune reminders - Experience is improved when a Zune player’s memory is nearing capacity, via an easy-to-use tool.

Web Picks

• Twitterholic.com
• Ranks the top 100 of the Twitter world
• Its ordered by popularity (read: followers)
• It also shows # of friends, and # of updates
• Barack Obama is #1 at the moment, check out his stats4
• Steven Molen is officially part of the twitter craze
• TwitDir (A Twitter Directory)
  
  • Look up anyone on Twitter by name, screen name, or location
  • Get the top 100 followed (just like Twitterholic.com)
  • Get the top 100 updaters
  • Get the top 100 favouriters
  • Get the top 100 followers
  • Get the top 10, 100, or 1000 requirements
    • Find out how many friends, followers, updates, and/or favorites you'd have to add to make it to the top 10, 100, or 1000 of Twitter

• Blackberry 9000
  

• Software that make you Smarter
  

• GTA IV - It's all the rage (They were talking about it on the First team on Fox Sports Show this morning)
  • The only game you can pay a hooker, hook it up, kick her out of your car, drive over her, and retrieve the money laying right beside her after you're done
  • You too can date a cyber byte with the ultimate goal of a shag fest, in a main stream game no less
  • Niko, an immigrant, is your single player anti-hero
  • Rockstar's RAGE engine coupled with NaturalMotion's Euphoria engine to produce outstanding graphics and natural kinesthesiology and Physics
  • Everything accessed from your phone - IMs, Missions, Multiplayer, hookers, etc
  • Online modes - 12 different types
  • Party lobby is outskirts of city with guns and cars to keep you occupied while waiting for friends
    • Free Mode (fully customizable with cops and all)
    • Team DeathMatch - cover system makes this not like quake
    • Mafiya Work - work to order from mob boss. first to complete gets the points
    • Car Jack City - Jack specific cars for points
    • Turf War - capture the point
    • GTA Race - Standard racing game
    • Cops'n'Crooks - 2 teams, lawmen and crooks. Lawmen trying to stop the crooks from escaping
    • Limited co-op - play with up to 4 friends