“Knol”, a new service from Google, is designed to get people to “contribute knowledge” on various topics and is targeted as a destination for first-time searchers on various topics. Obviously inspired by Wikipedia, this appears to be a way for Google to take traffic from Wikipedia since so many Wikipedia pages appear in the top [...]
December 13, 2007
Opera vs. Microsoft- Will consumers lose?
Good Morning Silicon Valley: “Of course, one can never underestimate the willingness of European courts to meddle with the model of a Web business, even if consumers get screwed in the process.”
I couldn’t have said it better myself.
December 13, 2007
Software Plus acquired by Softchoice
Software Plus, a local St. Louis software reseller and former fixture as a computer software store in West St. Louis County, was acquired by Softchoice this week. Best of luck to those at Software Plus who are making the transition to the new company.
December 13, 2007
Leaving Feedburner
I’m finding the Feedburner service to be “stale” since it was acquired by Google. No new features and not much interesting stuff that I need so I’ve decided to delete my feed. You should be automatically redirected to http://randyh.wordpress.com/feed/. See you “there” from now on.
December 13, 2007
IT hates the iPhone
FSJ offers some funny comments on the whole “IT hates the iPhone” meme. Talking to corporate IT people a lot, I can vouch for Fortune Magazine. The iPhone just doesn’t have the “stuff” it takes to be adopted by corporate IT.
