links for 2008-10-16
October 16, 2008
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Treehugger has a collection of a dozen fantastic, recession-compliant homes and buildings made from old shipping containers, the packets of the sea.
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Futurists have long predicted the day when we zip along in autonomous and electric monorail-like systems they call Personal Rapid Transit, and several projects underway in cities around the world suggest we soon may be freed from the bondage of gridlock.
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Yesterday, Apple didn’t announce a netbook. When asked why, Jobs replied “That’s a nascent market that’s just getting started, and we’ll see how it goes.”
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When Fuzz launched a microblogging service for music aficionados called Blip.fm last May, no one in the company expected it to rise above the status of an experiment.
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When Twitter acquired search engine Summize, it immediately rebranded and relaunched it as Twitter Search.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Tesla Motors, an electric car start-up in Silicon Valley, said Wednesday that it would lay off employees and delay production of its second car, the Model S. Tesla also removed its chief executive, Ze’ev Drori, and appointed Elon Musk, the company’s chairman and principal investor, to the position.
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