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In 2007, the “Facebook Class” at Stanford created free apps for millions of users. But it also fired up the careers of many students and pioneered a new model of entrepreneurship.

Card 2.0 is the next logical step in personal banking. Half credit card, half futuristic gadget, the cards are as versatile as they are secure.

You can tie multiple accounts to the same card or completely hide certain digits of your card number at the push of a button -- buttons which are embedded in the card and are as thin as the card itself.Our editors were hardly surprised to learn yesterday that Dynamics, the startup that makes the cards, won both the first prize and the people's choice award at DEMO, the startup-centric conference held in Silicon Valley.

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I confess I'm not always kind to Microsoft.

They stumble and bumble and often make bad decisions, and as such make a great target for a blogger like me, but looking back at the announcements they've made over the last couple of weeks, when you add it all up, they at least seem to be trying to move forward.

Yesterday Microsoft launched the long-awaited Zune HD.

By all reports, this is a pretty nice device with a large 3.3 inch OLED screen with HD video and HD radio playback.

As a media player, it offers access to a limited App Store and a very nice $15 all-you-can-eat monthly music subscription service.

It looks like Microsoft put a lot of thought into the design, and at the very least, I wanted to get my hands on one at Best Buy and take it for a spin.