Windows Marketplace for Mobile is getting ready to launch. With the blastoff date less than two weeks away, Microsoft provided an enthusiasm-building announcement to prepare for the launch.

Todd Brix is (get ready for this title) The Senior Director for Mobile Platform Services Product Management at Microsoft. His report on Tuesday provided a we’re-on-schedule update and promised a great new slate of applications to be available on Windows Marketplace for Mobile. In addition to the expected, he announced that users of the old mobile platform (Windows Mobile 6.0 and 6.1) would have access to the online store as well as users of the yet-to-be-released Windows Mobile 6.5, which is scheduled for availability this fall.
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Yawn… Facebook this and Facebook that. Ever wonder why so many people use it? Because it is talked about and because most people (not you of course) are ’sheeple’ and have to follow the masses for fear of being an outcast.

A prime example of how being talked about simply makes things important is the recent trouble with Oink and the raids. Even though the powers at be wanted to shut it down and help close off some more P2P kiddzz they have instead pointed the spot light on the whole thing and spawned a number of groups setting up replacements and thus actually growing the P2P ‘issue’ that the big cigar smokers don’t like. Read the rest

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