Facebook Hires Former AOL Exec

In the past seven or so years, Chamath Palihapitiya worked at AOL and co-founded MyMusicChannel.  He then moved on to Mayfield Fund, which has “over $2.7 billion under management.”  Now Palihapitiya’s found another job; he will serve as Facebook’s vice president of product marketing and operations.

Facebook Heads For IPO, Rumor Says

Sometimes little things add up and point to something big. Something serious and something funny may mean Facebook stands on the cusp of making Mark Zuckerberg and his backers very rich.

Scoble: Microsoft Is Run By Geeks

Robert Scoble earned his fame through corporate blogging, not PR blogging, where messages are always sugared up, but through saying what he wanted about Microsoft while working at Microsoft. He's on to other things now, but is still giving the Beast of Redmond the old what-for.