The CEO’s weekly checklist

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As a first time CEO, there were times when I would sit at my desk and think, “What should I be doing today?” This feeling was especially strong after every financing round closed.

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Gamification: Insights And Emerging Trends

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Editor’s note : Tim Chang is a managing director at Mayfield Fund .

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This Is What Developing For Android Looks Like

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You know how all Android developers complain about fragmentation? Yeah, this is what fragmentation looks like.

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Louis CK Secretly Releases Another Online-Only Special

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Comedian Louis CK has just released a new comedy special, WORD: Live At Carnegie Hall as another download/streaming offering.

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HTC Titan II Review: Sometimes A Win-Win Is A Lose

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Short Version I’ve been spending some quality time with HTC’s Titan II, and I would never call it a bad phone. But that’s not the question — good, bad, fast, slow, ugly, beautiful… they don’t matter unless I feel that I’d put down money and live my life with this device. And even though I expected this to be one of my favorites, I walk away from my review certain that I wouldn’t exchange cash for this handset

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SAP cuddles up with Amazon, but what about Azure?

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News that SAP will — along with Amazon — certify more of its business applications to run in production on Amazon’s public cloud raises the question of what’s going on with SAP and Microsoft Windows Azure. As one commenter to our SAP-Amazon post last night put it: “So much for SAP announcing MS as partner of the year! why isn’t Azure in the pic ?” Good question.

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Samsung Omnia M revealed for Europe: 4-inch Super AMOLED and some software extras

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More new Windows Phones, this time for the old continent. Instead of the Focus 2 , Samsung announced that the Omnia M will take its place in Europe and it's looking an awful lot like its predecessor -- although we're a bit concerned the build quality may not match its older brother.

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‘Hundreds’ of Cablevision iO TV on-demand rentals now last 48 hours, procrastinators rejoice

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Last we heard from Cablevision, it was bringing its Optimum Online live TV streaming to Windows and Macs . Shifting directions to its more "traditional" cable offerings, the company now has good news for folks who've been generally bummed out about the 24-hour viewing window allotted with movie rentals on its iO TV service

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Consolidation Hits UK Local Sites: Zoopla Buys UpMyStreet, Folds It Into Its Own Property Pages

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The UK housing market has been on shaky legs for a while now — with tight lending conditions, unemployment and general consumer confidence all playing their part in slowing things down — and that is having the inevitable knock-on to sites built up to serve that sector: today brings news that Zoopla , one of the UK’s bigger property sites, is buying up a smaller competitor / data supplier, UpMyStreet , and folding the latter company’s business into its own. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it looks like the acquisition means curtains for the UpMyStreet brand, one of the oldest local-listings sites in the UK: if you visit that URL now you will see that the site now automatically redirects to Zoopla’s pages, with no sign of UpMyStreet branding to be seen. There is a quick splash, however, that appears on some pages that announces the sale: UpMyStreet had already been a strategic partner of Zoopla’s before the acquisition, providing supplementary information about property locations alongside Zoopla’s core real-estate listings service.  “ Zoopla has had a commercial relationship with UpMyStreet.com for some time and this acquisition is a natural fit for us and allows us to further extend our audience and reach for the benefit of our members,” said Alex Chesterman, founder and CEO of Zoopla, in a statement

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Facebook Adds “Good Enough” File Sharing To All Groups. Dropbox Should Worry About Growth

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Today Facebook begins rolling out file sharing to all Groups, and while it’s got many restrictions, it could be good enough to limit the long-term growth potential of cloud storage / file sharing services like  Dropbox , iCloud, and Google Drive. Music and any copyright files aren’t allowed and file size is capped at 25mb, as Mashable first reported . But this is just the first version, and you can be sure Facebook will keep hacking away at it

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