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I was at lunch at Japango with some of my Foundry Group gang yesterday. When I went to my house in Alaska last July, I took a Mac with me but left my PC at home. Ross bet me $100 that before the month was out I'd beg him to fedex my PC to me.

Technology has greatly aided our lives and made several previously difficult tasks easy. But technology has also brought some negative changes.

Hard to believe, but Twitter is already five years old. To commemorate the occassion, the site's creator and Twitter's former CEO, Jack Dorsey has been retelling the company's founding story (through his Twitter page , natch). Here's an early exchange with Twitter co-founder Biz Stone: me: Biz! How goes

This afternoon from the stage at South by Southwest , Architecture for Humanity's Cameron Sinclair will announce a $75,000 commitment from donors to rebuilding from the Japanese earthquake, along with a personal pledge: If the donation link bit.ly/sxsw4JP is reTweeted 100,000 times, he'll donate 10% of his own salary. The rebuilding effort will unfold in stages, depending on how much money is ultimately raised.

A controversial web-design company that served scores of small businesses and left many unhappy customers in its wake has closed its doors. Employees from HIT Web Design, a full-service web design and web hosting company in Provo, Utah, were seen carrying boxes out of the company's headquarters on Tuesday, the Deseret News reported . Founded as Heritage Web Solutions in 1999, the company hit No

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While the main stage talks are the intellectual core of the TED experience, they're far from the only thing going on. As one might expect from a community thick with ideas and inspiration, there is an immense undercurrent of entrepreneurial excitement and activity that runs through the event.

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