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Too funny. Substitute your favorite German enterprise software company. via Scoble.
Third he claims that the media took a narrow survey and implied broad implications for quality with high-level coverage. This is somewhat true, and, well, what mainstream media does. And what Carr did with his first claim. But the articles did link to the actual study. Ross is fact checking Carr who is fact checking [...]
“Jobs then segued into how 40 percent of all autos sold in the US included integrated iPod support as an option,” I’d like to see the fact base on that claim… perhaps he means “4 out of 10″ automobile manufacturers have ipod support as an option on some models. The new Mac Minis are nice, [...]
It’s interesting that Google has the support of the ACLU in their recent dispute with the DOJ about the subpeona for keywords and search results. I found this statement from the ACLU to be rather ironic: “It’s never been a principle of law that people can read your e-mail as long as they don’t know [...]
Time to celebrate, today is National Pancake Day… also known as Fat Tuesday. Sorry IHOP is not serving up free pancakes.
Censorship is breaking out all over the place, and when BoingBoing gets blocked you really have to wonder what the hell is going on. Last week, we reported that Boing Boing was blocked by entire countries including the United Arab Emirates, and by many library systems, schools, US government and military sites, and corporations. Today, we’ve learned [...]
My more observant readers likely noticed an interesting link on my sidebar titled “Web 3.0 Wiki“. The more curious of you clicked on that link only to be directed to a login screen, at least before today you did. The original idea for this was born out of the simple question “what is web 2.0 [...]
I think the answer’s simple: VCs. VCs are great are crafting value propositions for enterprise software and semiconductors. They understand those industries very, very well. But they distinctly don’t understand media and culture, and so they can’t craft value propositions (or build the right relationships, etc) for their portfolio companies – and that’s when they [...]
With all of the noise being made about multiple core CPU’s right now it is easy to forget that there is a massive development effort underway to bring developer tools to market so that the power of these new chips can be realized. Octopiler is intended to become just such a compiler—one that can take [...]
Interesting to see how Google can frustrate the best efforts of the best marketing organizations. Take a look at this screenshot, and witness the sponsored link for the Nike promotional site joinbode.com. Would you be interested in “exploring Bode’s philosophy” after reading any of the returned search results? Whatdayathink Nike spent on Bode, $7, 10, [...]