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Want to work with a ton of cool startups like iPhone app developer Shazam? Well, then you'll want to check out Thinkspace which is run by Peter Che up in Redmond, WA. Right near Microsoft's campus. Here Peter gives us a tour and talks about why he has one of the hottest places to work in the Seattle area. Read Peter's blog too.

How do you measure the world's fastest punch? Turns out it's not as easy as you might think. Here IBM Researcher James Kaufman explains what it took.

Likaholix is a new company, just launching today, started by two engineers who used to work at Google. What does it do? It lets you share things you like with other people. Sounds lame, right? But remember, I've clicked "like" 16,000 times in the past year over on friendfeed (you can see my like feed here). So, liking things is a powerful way to tell other people about things. Here you'll get a first look at Likaholix, which goes into closed beta today.

OK, this isn't much about business, but if you travel a lot you probably want to play DVDs or Blu-ray discs on your laptop. The thing is did you know that you aren't getting the best quality? Here Cyberlink's new PowerDVD 9 player (just shipped) makes DVD playing much higher quality and enables Blu-ray playing too. Here Tom Vaughan, director of business development, tells me about Cyberlink and shows me their latest.