links for 2009-04-25

"General Motors got another $2 billion emergency loan, the U.S. Treasury department said Friday, and is expected to announce soon it will kill its slow-selling Pontiac brand as it scrambles to slice underperforming units. The first quarter, Pontiac sold just 40,887 cars and trucks, according to industry tracker Autodata. Only GM's Saturn, Hummer and Saab brands did worse, and they've been up for sale for months." How much more are we going to keep supporting this broken company?

Don't let your boss change the specs for you.

"It seems to me, then, that the best time for a marketer to grow is when clients have to pick something. Seeking these moments out is inexpensive and productive."

"The final results are now being reviewed by an outside auditor, but the preliminary numbers indicate that approximately 74.4 percent of users who voted chose the proposed documents – the new Facebook Principles and Statement of Rights and Responsibilities – over the existing Terms of Use. More than 600,000 users participated in the vote."

Why, I don't even like football and this seems silly.

"Spain's unemployment rate hit 17.4% at the end of March, figures have shown, with the jobless total now having doubled over the past 12 months. In the past year, two million people have lost their jobs taking the total out of work to just over four million. " Glad I don't live in Spain.

I'm not so sure about Blu-Ray, it could be popular it may not, depends on how popular the idea of downloading via the internet becomes.

"On a global basis, Facebook attracted more than twice as many visitors in the month of March as arch-rival MySpace." Facebook I like, MySpace I don't.

"XP Mode consists of the Virtual PC-based virtual environment and a fully licensed copy of Windows XP with Service Pack 3 (SP3). It will be made available, for free, to users of Windows 7 Professional, Enterprise, and Ultimate editions via a download from the Microsoft web site." Cool.