Here is a quick heads up on an amazing deal I found—the Mac Bundle Box is a special deal that was recently brought to my attention through a blog post by Chris Pirillo. Essentially, 15 applications are included in a package deal that costs $49.95. The total value of each application together is over $300. At first, I thought there might be a number of lower quality applications thrown into the mix, but I soon learned differently. I was honestly shocked at the value, as there are some pretty awesome applications included.

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Windows has only taken small strides to advertise Windows Vista in the past, but the “Mojave Experiment” marks a significant effort to market Windows Vista as a product that users should consider (and, for many, reconsider). The advertising campaign has already generated plenty of discussion, so let’s break it all down.

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Microsoft Windows is the most popular operating system available today, and that is a given. However, Mac OS X holds a serious amount of potential for future development. This article has nothing to do with which system is better than the other, but, instead, it is focused on which system offers developers the most potential to generate revenue. Mac OS X is ripe for fantastic and innovative software development, and it is, unquestionably, a serious place for developers who want to make those Benjamins.

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Twitter and Jaiku—these two similar services were battling it out for mini-blogging supremacy during a time when the average person had little to no knowledge of what mini-blogging was. Twitter came out on top, but don’t think for a second that it was because Twitter was better. Instead, it was a result of Twitter’s open API which allowed mind-blowing third-party products and services to be created. These third-party products and services have, in many respects, done phenomenally well for Twitter, but now there is a new player in town wanting to earn the respect of similar third-party developers.

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Could you imagine having to subscribe to every application, every song, every video game, every premium website, and most other forms of content you interact with on a daily basis? Well, the possibility that this will occur is constantly growing, and if it is bound to happen, we should expect this trend to become fairly popular within the next 10 years. While businesses would benefit from the increased control, consumers might not be as appreciative to these change.

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Robert Scoble, owner of the Scobleizer and FastCompany.TV, has had an interesting opinion about comments on blogs—Simply put, he believes comments are dying. It really is a coin-flip, but comments on blogs are really becoming the subject of discussion lately. But why would they be dying, and does this mean that blogs are dying as well?

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What is Stardock? Well, if you decide to visit Stardock’s website today, you will see various things: my desktop, a collection of desktop enhancement applications; my games, a gathering of computer games; and my tools, a slew of tools designed to assist computer users. This is a vast amount of applications, but it is even more interesting in finding out how it all came to be.

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