General
Scraping and Stealing?
I have posted an essay on my personal blog covering this weekends controversy about scraping and stealing content. »
Google launches Dbase, circa 1985, but with less functionality
Google launched GoogleBase last night. What a disappointment. Whilst Google Reader clearly points to somebody at Google “getting” the importance of edge published content and real-time indexing, GoogleBase is a throw back. Basically a dumb flat-file database system for the world to throw content into. It’s actually embarrasing for the whole of Silicon... »
Microsoft’s Reorganization and Web 2.0
Microsoft announced a major reorganization this week. the crux of the reorg seems to be that the MSN and Windows divisions are being unified, and as part of this Jim Allchin is retiring. A new “Platform Products and Services Division” is the result. It will be led by Kevin Johnson once Allchin retires. There will... »