Stephen Elop talks about Microsoft’s visions about the future of business.

Not push iStore lim­its! Pixelpipe’s pop­u­lar app got kicked because the pro­gram scans the users pho­tos to enable a mul­ti­ple selec­tion. Will a chang­ing mar­ket­place force apple into a less restric­tive busi­ness model?

Much ado about face­book, plenty of twit­ter clients reviewed: it’s been a busy week in social media land — again!

Wel­come to the weekly blog round-up — a lot has hap­pened dur­ing the last seven days. Every­body was talk­ing about Google Wave, and Loic Le Meur announced that Seesmic will soon release a browser-based ver­sion of their client.

There’s always hope — despite the eco­nomic cri­sis, there are plenty of oppor­tu­ni­ties for cre­ative entre­pre­neurs; you don’t nec­es­sar­ily have to ty and sell your Digg account, like one des­per­ate web­de­signer did.

Pownce recently announced that the microblog­ging ser­vice will shut its vir­tual doors on Decem­ber 15th. Twit­ter has one another duel — the whole Pownce team will be work­ing for French-US blog­ging com­pany Six Apart.

Monty Python launches their own Youtube chan­nel, Face­book is try­ing to bring some cus­tomers to its mar­ket­place and Seth is remind­ing blog­gers of the fact that trust is vital to any sus­tain­able relationship.

Get­ting some expo­sure is a cru­cial task to all web­work­ers. Blog­cat­a­logue is offer­ing some nice new fea­tures which offer very good value for very lit­tle money.

I quit my job at Google — I may have got­ten a lot of stuff for free, but in the long run our rela­tion­s­ship didn’t really pay off for me.