- Digg may have been sold for over $300 million. Crazy. Digg is bleeding users (primarily to Reddit) because of censorship issues. I’m assuming that any company willing to pay that much money is probably public, which means that censorship will go up, users will go down, which will in turn bring revenue down. I have serious doubts whether a truly open forum can be “owned” by anybody, ever.
- Ron Paul’s moneybomb raises over $4 million in 24 hours, a record for Republican candidates. Put that in your poll and smoke it.
- FaceBook shows its support for developers. Just kidding. What they really did is announce that they’re going to help big companies capable of paying big advertisement feeds dominate its application market place. There goes the free advertising, the FaceBook "platform’s" biggest attraction to small software developers.
- Ron Paul won his first(?) "non-Internet" poll. He’s just starting all kinds of trends lately.
- Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer denies Google lead in online technology. I can only conclude that time on Planet Ballmer stopped in 2001.
- On the other hand, saying that Google leads Microsoft in online technology isn’t saying much. It’s like the picking the lesser of two evils. I haven’t been impressed with anything that Google’s done since Google Maps and Gmail. Their online apps pretty much suck in my opinion. Can’t say I’m holding my breath for the Google Phone Platform that they announced. If I could use an Apple iPhone I would (Cisco doesn’t support them
), Google’s going to have a hard time competing with that kind of well-designed and engineered product. However, the OpenMoko project still intrigues me, and I’m sure it’s much more open than anything Google produces will ever be.
Interesting Stuff
November 8, 2007 By 1 Comment
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Matthew
