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Microsoft continues to build retail stores at a measured pace, the 8th set to throw open its doors tomorrow to the masses ofCosta Mesa, California. And inclassic Microsoft style, a pop-singing diva has been picked to help boost the opening crowd for the new retail location. This time around, the singer and actress by the name of Selena Gomez has been selected; Microsoft will be giving out tickets to one of her upcoming concerts to the first several hundred shoppers who come to the store....

As a follow up to my “7 Types of Entrepreneurs; which one are you?” post from yesterday I thought I’d look into business models once more. One of the most popular questions for startups online (and even major ones like Twitter and Facebook) is ‘what is your business model’. Sometimes the question is sincere but often it is voiced more like an accusation: what is the hell is their business model anyway?...

Sexual harassment in gamer culture burst back into the spotlight on July 21, 2021, with news of California’slawsuit against Activision Blizzard, publisher of top-selling video gamesCall of Duty, World of Warcraft,andCandy Crush, and awalkout by company employees. The lawsuit alleges a “pervasive ‘frat boy’ culture” at the company and discrimination against women in pay and promotion. The turmoil is an echo of the infamousGamergateepisode of 2014 that featured an organized online campaign of harassment against female gamers, game developers and gaming journalists....

Vincenzo Cosenza, an Italian digital strategist, has just finished his latest research on Social Networks Adoption Lifecycle. Cosenza has applied the Innovation Adoption Model, a model that shows the stages in the adoption process for a new product by a consumer, to social networks diffusion to plot their actual state and, hopefully, understand their future trajectories. He made a very cool infographic and gave us the first look. In the innovators area you’ll Friendfeed, which unfortunately stopped innovating after its acquisition by Facebook; Foursquare, the most famous location based social network with 10 million users; and Google+ with its explosive adoption rate (20 million users in 3 weeks)....

The metaverse has become the hottest buzzword in tech. Silicon Valley big brains are suddenly obsessed with building virtual spaces spanning digital and physical domains. There’s Mark Zuckerberg, who planstoturn Facebook into “a metaverse company.”There’s Nvidia founder Jenson Huang, whoenvisions “a virtual world that is a digital twin of ours”and accessible via “wormholes.” And there’s Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who’s “excited” about the potential of an (urgh)“enterprise metaverse.” It feels like everything is now part of the metaverse: VR games?...