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Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

What famous Microsoft-hater once led Microsoft's network software team and later founded a company that made him a billionaire?

RealAudio CEO Rob Glaser
Chuck Thacker, co-inventor of Ethernet
Lotus CEO Mitch Kapor
Google CEO Eric Schmidt

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Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

"You are the sleazebag I always suspected you were and should have listened more carefully to my gut instincts -- and to my friends. You are an absolute creep, and it was a colossal mistake on my part to have gotten involved with you." Which Web 2.0 bon vivant was scorned-woman Rachel Marsden furious at?

Mark Zuckerberg
Sean Parker
Jimmy Wales
Ariana Huffington

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Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

What tech revolutionary said the following regarding the Federal Trade Commission's 1991 investigation into Microsoft's allegedly unfair business dealings: "Gates has clearly won, the revolution is over, and the free-wheeling innovation in the software industry has ground to a halt. For me, it's the Kingdom of the Dead."

Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle
New York Times reporter John Markoff in a flaming editorial
Mitch Kapor, founder of Lotus, in his 1999 book, "Hard Drive"
The late Ray Noorda, founder of Novell (the words are on his tombstone)

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Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

Amanda Congdon, who once put the fuel in RocketBoom, has returned to the Net with a new video blog. What's it called?

DailyDish
Sometimesdaily
Must-C-TV
DailyDouble

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Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

In 1992, Borland CEO Philippe Kahn held a developer's conference in Palm Desert that was infamously infiltrated by Microsoft. In the San Francisco Chronicle, Borland alleged that Microsoft employees:

Tried to get the developers drunk
Lured them into busses and drove them off site
Dressed them in Hawaiian shirts
All of the above

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Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

"He is erratic. There is no vision beyond page views. He is obsessed with the Gay Mafia. Jesus spent three days in Hell. I could only handle one." Which blog impresario was journalist Richard Morgan talking about?

Nick Denton
Jason Calcanis
John Battelle
Josh Marshall

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Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

Hardware pioneers Lynn Conway and Carver Meade are best known for their revolutionary work on popularizing VLSI chip design. Lesser known is that:

Lynn was once a man
Carver was once a woman
Lynn and Carver were secretly married on the IBM yacht, The Megabyte
None of the above

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Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

He's credited (or blamed) with coining the phrase "Web 2.0." Who did it?

Kevin Rose
Tim O'Reilly
Robert Scoble
Michael Arrington

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Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

What tech honcho was famously pictured enjoying his wealth in a Silicon Valley hot tub?

Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari
Steve Jobs
Bill Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard
A young Bill Gates, fresh from writing a version of BASIC for the Altair

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Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

He's not yet 38 years old, yet he already has more than 233 million close personal friends. Who is this exceedingly popular guy?

Tom Anderson
Chris DeWolfe
Om Malik
Lawrence Lessig

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