Monthly Archives: October 2006

Microsoft Grabs Metal Chair in Cage Match for Office 2.0

Microsoft grabs the equivalent of a metal chair — what will Google’s sledge hammer be?

Fine, But What’s Viral Traffic Worth?

Viral marketing — what’s it good for?

China’s Denial of Great Wall (Almost) Comical

A great CNet article today about how a Chinese official at the UN denied the existence of internet censorship at the Internet Governance Forum in Greece:
Chinese official: How can I elaborate on it if we don’t have any restrictions?  Some people say that there are journalists in China that have been arrested. We have hundreds [...]

Hungry Hungry Hippos! Reddit Gobbled Up By Conde Nast

TechCrunch broke this morning that Reddit, the politico’s Digg clone — albeit the low-brow remarks and flagrant gaming — has recently been gobbled up by Wired’s parent company, Conde Nast.
Look for this acquisition to cause more rumours to swirl about Digg’s acquisition, which, quite frankly, has died down over the past few days — and [...]

Google’s Latest Gambit: Too Smart to Be Evil? Or Are We Just Naive?

Mark Cuban has recently posted the entire “insider” opinion of the YouTube acquisition by Google. Its been summarized in by a few learned individuals here and there. The salient points seem that:
1. Google held back a significant sum in escrow as a war chest against future copyright suits
2. The investments by large music [...]

FireFox Finally Mates with Netvibes

I mean — there’s tighter integration for my on-line favourite RSS / news / email / widget aggregator!
With Firefox 2, there’s a way to add Netvibes, so that you can easily “subscribe” to it with a push of the button.
The netvibes blog explains it best:
The new version of the popular browser Firefox includes a fine [...]

Gmail Accounts Get Pumped?

According to at least a couple of observers, the 2 (or 2.5gig) limit is being pumped up to over 15gigs. Personally, I’m at around 15% of my usual 2.8gig limit; some might wonder what the deuce people are going to do with 15gigs of email space.
Well, it fits perfectly within GMail’s raison d’etre — [...]