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Ruckelhaus on Obama
Madrona Venture Group's William Ruckelshaus, the first administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, tells Grist that he does not expect to be offered a job in the Barack Obama administration. But the 76-year-old applauds the president-elect's environmental plans, noting that "we've got a new president who's obviously excited a lot of people in society." A good read that covers the career of the Seattle venture capitalist, inlcuding his role in helping to clean up Puget Sound.
Amazon.com has replaced Merrill Lynch in the S&P 100 Index following the buyout of Merrill by Bank of America.
Alex Castro of Delve Networks offers his top 10 list of predictions for online video in 2009, writing among other things that "YouTube's share over the overall video market will begin to decrease in 2009."
The Motley Fool labels Amazon.com's inability to keep the Kindle in stock during the holidays one of the "Year's 5 Dumbest Stock Moves."
VentureBeat's MG Siegler gives the Eyejot This bookmarklet a try, writing that the Seattle service allows people to record video annotations associated with specific Web pages they find online. You can imagine someone adding the video messages to a link, rather than simply writing text.
Troubled Bellevue online registration company Count Me In issued a formal statement Friday in which CEO Terry Drayton acknowledged the problems at the company, saying that: "I can understand our clients' frustration and anger. We made a host of mistakes and have put them in a difficult situation. Now I'm just asking them for the time to fix it."
What were the top tech stories in Oregon last year? The Silicon Forest blog notes Portland's startup culture, H-P's cutbacks, the muni wi-fi meltdown, Cadence's bid for Mentor Graphics and other stories.
And speaking of Oregon, Mike Rogoway has an early review of Clearwire's 4G WiMax service in Portland. The service is set to launch there next Tuesday.
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