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	HBR guy was wrong on Kindle - with link

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                    <P class="byline">By Sean Silverthorne</p> </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.bnet.com/harvard/?p=518"><H1>Most Likely to Fail: Twitter and Kindle…(Wrong!)</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.bnet.com/harvard/?p=518"><P><A title="Most Likely to Fail: Twitter and Kindle…………(Wrong!)" href="http://blogs.bnet.com/harvard/images/125772-digiscents.jpg"><IMG align="left" alt="Most Likely to Fail: Twitter and Kindle…………(Wrong!)" src="http://blogs.bnet.com/harvard/images/125772-digiscents.jpg" /></A>I would have bet my beloved iPhone at the start of 2008 that two products doomed to failure were the electronic book Kindle and the follow-me technology Twitter. Sure as <STRONG>Hillary Clinton</STRONG> was going to win the democratic presidential nomination, Kindle and Twitter were soon to join the Newton, iSmell (photo at left), and the Free-PC on the Technology Pile of Irrelevance.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E5A3297B-2290-400B-B687-4F4D87053B85/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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