valleylist Monday 4.21.2008 v 16.0

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    HIGH TECH PRODUCTS
    + Video game sales soar 57 percent in March

         Super Smash Brothers Brawl continues to lead the pack at 2.7m sold     + FCC wants to "unblock" the internet

• - Palo Alto meetings this week + Tabletop-PC technology on display + Who's the most influential person in silicon valley?
  • - mercury news and "valleylist" public opinion poll + Embedded Systems Conference San Jose

  RETAILERS BY LOCATION is a high tech tradition in silicon valley that people pursue endlessly because it's impossible to find anything. The most important place for high techies is anywhere near computer products software or hardware. - - Apple then changed the rules and captured the world of entertainment and then everybody had to go to the mall or the music store or the video store to find out what was happening.    

  Pope Benedict XVI arrived on American tour as the XVI version of "valleylist" was pulling itself together. The Pope is like a lot of people - - he's not interested in using a computer. He did however publicly announce that recreating Sodom and Gomorrah was o.k. yet holding people hostage for public torture as a new form of entertainment is not o.k. Is it legal to eliminate people? No in fact it is completely and totally unacceptable. My favorite quote from the Pope's visit - - the world is "in crisis because it is still subordinated to the decisions of a few, whereas the world's problems call for interventions in the form of collective action by the international community." My thought was to try to create my own kind of collective under the guise of what people commonly refer to as a "social network" with "a private valleylist-only NING network" among the pioneers in the internet social network arena - - learn more about NING. A week ahead of the 4.21.2208 version of  "valleylist" which is entirely about internet social networks such as MySpace LinkedIn AOL's BeBo Plaxo Facebook among others.    

  The newest computer retail success story amazingly enough is sony style. There is obviously room out there for new competitors. Click Away is not quite a computer store and the big discount stores like Kmart have been around for eons. The list of 15 cities x 46 high tech retailers in silicon valley is 690 listings in 7 days or 100 listings a day - - that's too much work. Instead there's a prototype version of Palo Alto my favorite silicon valley city lately. The logical starting point for "valleylist" retailers by location is the list of all 46 retailers that have a store in silicon valley.    

  This list has the good stores where the good people shop and the bad stores where the bad people shop [or stores older than civilization itself]. A brief conversation with the guys from the San Jose "Sharks" Fire Department reveals that they don't like high tech. And they don't know where to shop for computer and home electronics products either. What distinguishes the San Jose fire department from all other fire departments is the fire engines with the big shark fin on the back and their odd habit of hanging out near the HP Pavillion just to scare people. Yet their humble request to be added to "the list" on "valleylist" was granted just this week and led to yet again an odd question of why isn't the Saratoga Fire Department on the list, or even the city of Saratoga? Menlo Park Mayor Paul Collacchi our mayor of the week is on a totally different track - - a "growth moratorium." That's why we adore Menlo Park. It's almost all built out. The most productive place to shop  is at the shopping malls however they don't really have what techno people like - - try Frys.com or Apple Computer Store or Sony Style to find what you need quickly and not always at a discount. Regardless of where you live the most important people in silicon valley subscribe to "valleylist" at pub@thevalleylist.com .            

  RETAILERS BY LOCATION [in order of my favorites first]

• - good stores that are for good people

  radio shack    

  apple computer    

  sony style    

  dell computers    

  fry's    

    target consumer electronics    

    circuit city    

  verizon    

  sprint    

  best buy    

  metro pcs    

  magnolia    

  videogame stores    

  gamestop    

  click away    

  helio    

  sharper image    

  brookstone    

  palm    

  cingular    

  walgreens cellphones    

  neiman marcus consumer electronics    

  camera stores    

  att cingular    

  bose    

  music stores    

  independent stores that sell all brands    

  bang and olafsen    

  newnex technology corporation    

  action computer & surplus    

  think computer corporation    

  central computers    

  micro center    

  RETAILERS BY LOCATION

• - bad Stores for bad people [stores that pre-date time itself]

  sears    

  walmart    

  costco    

  office depot    

  office max      

  long's consumer electronics            

  CONCLUSION for the time being I plan to devote the rest of the year to finding out who is the most influential person in silicon valley with the help of mercury news and a newsgroup feature for publishing a "poll" of likely candidates.            

    The new version of "valleylist" v 17.0 next monday 4.21.2008 is all about internet social networks. I took the lead with adding my version of NING to the conversation. All you have to do is join the valleylist social network of the future and have fun with our own private NING network.            

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