Business Ideas Around the Web (3/23)

It's toward the end of the week. As you're heading to your weekend, here are some ideas to ponder as you get there.

• Set shorter deadlines, accomplish more. 24 hours to create a game? It's possible! See how students create games within a 24-hour deadline.
• Sell out your company, sell out your customers? For the Alienware brand, it's likely its evangelists aren't too happy. In a tragic business PR move, Alienware sells out to Dell.
• Is Bill Gates scared? Google, Yahoo, and smaller startups should scare them. Bill thinks otherwise, and we believe him: he's fighting where he can win -- and ignoring where he can't. What's on his mind with Time.

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