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Questions

1. Who is to be Microsoft's new chief software architect?

2. What is `wikiCalc' and who is behind its development?

3. In the context of Google, who is Michael Jones?

4. Fill in the blanks with the name of the company in the new popular game: `____ ______ Presents Table Tennis'.

5. Whose tagline is `It's a strange world. Fish it'?

6. Who created the social bookmarking service `del.icio.us'?

7. Which popular site for making and sharing presentations on the Web is being built by New York-based Structured Data, LLC?

8. Expand Ajax as used in the Web development technique used for creating interactive Web applications.

9. Which Web project touts itself as `the most sophisticated taxonomy of musical information ever collected'?

10. If someone says he/she is `GYM free', he/she is free of?

Answers

1. Ray Ozzie

2. It's a new browser-based open source spreadsheet developed by Dan Bricklin, often called `father of the spreadsheet'.

3. The CTO of Google Earth.

4. Rockstar Games

5. The new, happening audio/video search engine `Singingfish'.

6. Joshua Schachter in 2003.

7. Thumbstacks.com

8. Asynchronous JavaScript and XML.

9. The Music Genome Project{trade}

10. Google, Yahoo and Microsoft!