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title: 'Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for March 6, 2008'
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# Silicon Florist’s links arrangement for March 6, 2008

Sometimes, a link says more than I could ever say. Here are some fragrant little buds I’ve found recently, courtesy of ma.gnolia.

#### [Marshall Kirkpatrick to lead this week’s session on “Making your business’s blog a mover and a shaker” at Beer and Blog](http://www.beerandblog.com/marshall-kirkpatrick-to-lead-this-weeks-session-on-making-your-businesss-blog-a-mover-and-a-shaker/)

If you’ve never been to Beer and Blog, this would be a good week to start. Not only is the event brilliant, but you can’t get much better than Marshall Kirkpatrick.

#### [The Argon Express 2008? It’s not too late!](http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2008/03/05/the-argon-express-2008-its-not-too-late)

Picture yourself and your laptop. It’s been over a day and you’re sitting on a train with a group of Rails developers with a view like this over your shoulder.

#### [USA Today: Microsoft: still out to squish the little guy (like Jive Software)](http://blogs.usatoday.com/technologylive/2008/03/microsoft-still.html)

Rival Jive Software wants to be the Apple Computer of corporate social networks. Jive’s competing Clearspace system supplies all the bell and whistles in a slick, tightly integrated package. Jive only does Clearspace.

#### [Amplify Interactive Turns 5 Years Old](http://www.amplify-interactive.com/blog/2008/03/05/amplify-interactive-turns-5-years-old/)

Ben Lloyd writes, “You’ve heard the stat right? Something like 85% of businesses fail within the first 5 years? I just realized as I was going through some tax-time paperwork that Amplify Interactive officially opened for business on March 5 2003, which makes us 5 years old as of today.”

#### [LazyEngine](http://sw.samgrover.com/le/)

Don’t know how I missed this one. Maybe I was lazy. Satyajit “Sam” Grover writes, “LazyEngine is a lazy search engine. If you want to do a search, consider for a moment if you need the results immediately. If not, then this is the search engine for you. This is probably a silly web application.”

[View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia](http://ma.gnolia.com/people/siliconflorist/bookmarks "View all my bookmarks on Ma.gnolia")