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Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Blacklisted from Google Notebook

January 9, 2008

One of the weak points of reliance on cloud computing services is that you’re constantly at the mercy of the company your data is in – and, as you don’t pay for the service, the relationship that you have with the company is not that of customer and supplier. That means, of course, that it’s [...]

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Blacklisted from Google Notebook

January 9, 2008

One of the weak points of reliance on cloud computing services is that you’re constantly at the mercy of the company your data is in – and, as you don’t pay for the service, the relationship that you have with the company is not that of customer and supplier. That means, of course, that it’s [...]

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Holy crap: Newsgator now free

January 9, 2008

inessential.com: ‘NetNewsWire 3.1 is free’ There’s not much to add to this one, although that sound you here is actually my jaw hitting the floor. It makes a lot of sense, though.

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Holy crap: Newsgator now free

January 9, 2008

inessential.com: ‘NetNewsWire 3.1 is free’ There’s not much to add to this one, although that sound you here is actually my jaw hitting the floor. It makes a lot of sense, though.

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links for 2008-01-09

January 9, 2008

The Metaverse: The end of in-world “banking” No surprise to many, Linden Lab has effectively outlawed banking in Second Life UNLESS you already have a real-world banking license. One more step towards the metaverse becoming more like a game world, and less like the wild west. (tags: lindenlab secondlife finance banking) Skype Journal: Skype Announces [...]

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links for 2008-01-09

January 9, 2008

The Metaverse: The end of in-world “banking” No surprise to many, Linden Lab has effectively outlawed banking in Second Life UNLESS you already have a real-world banking license. One more step towards the metaverse becoming more like a game world, and less like the wild west. (tags: lindenlab secondlife finance banking) Skype Journal: Skype Announces [...]

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Surely FORTUNE can do better than this?

January 9, 2008

Fresh on the back of my moan about journalists who do nothing but rehash press releases while staring at multiple screens, we have a post on FORTUNE which swallows the Apple line on pricing discrepancies in the EU hook, line and sinker: An Apple spokesperson at the time made it clear that the company blamed [...]

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Surely FORTUNE can do better than this?

January 9, 2008

Fresh on the back of my moan about journalists who do nothing but rehash press releases while staring at multiple screens, we have a post on FORTUNE which swallows the Apple line on pricing discrepancies in the EU hook, line and sinker: An Apple spokesperson at the time made it clear that the company blamed [...]

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Data portability? Not for EU, Sunny Jim

January 9, 2008

Link: TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Data portability? Not for EU, Sunny Jim. "Ultimately, the EU Data Protection Directive, which ended up inserted into the national law of all EU countries, could also be a legal block on data portability. If Robert Scoble had pulled his stunt in Europe, the entire ’scraping Facebook’ issue [...]

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Data portability? Not for EU, Sunny Jim

January 9, 2008

Link: TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Data portability? Not for EU, Sunny Jim. "Ultimately, the EU Data Protection Directive, which ended up inserted into the national law of all EU countries, could also be a legal block on data portability. If Robert Scoble had pulled his stunt in Europe, the entire ’scraping Facebook’ issue [...]

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