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Flock founder flees
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Andrew Orlowski
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Soon all browsers would look like Flock, predicted Business Week. Included here for this quote, found on the internets. Wasn’t this the quintissential Web 2.0 business plan? Raise a bunch of capital in order to hire old people for pennies on the dollar. Use this vast, untapped resource in order to ‘develop’ a browser that…
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Nature journal cooked Wikipedia study
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Andrew Orlowski
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Nature magazine has some tough questions to answer after it let its Wikipedia fetish get the better of its responsibilities to reporting science. The Encyclopedia Britannica has published a devastating response to Nature‘s December comparison of Wikipedia and Britannica, and accuses the journal of misrepresenting its own evidence. Where the evidence didn’t fit, says Britannica,…
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The murky world of Mozilla and Google
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Andrew Orlowski
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When the Mozilla Foundation turns to the public for money, it happily assumes the mantle of a penniless public institution asking for charity. Over 10,000 FireFox fans drew deep into their own pockets to place an expensive two-page advertisement for the browser in the New York Times 15 months ago. But the Mozilla Foundation’s commercial…
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Blanket digital licence fails in France
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Andrew Orlowski
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Under heavy pressure from the French government, the country’s parliament has voted against introducing the world’s first blanket licence for sharing digital media. A section that would have permitted internet users to freely exchange copyrighted material, effectively legitimizing file sharing, and hastening the demise of digital rights management (DRM) software, had passed an earlier reading…
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‘Lightweight, high-velocity and very connected’
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Andrew Orlowski
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At ZDNet, it’s Microsoft’s “Pearl Harbor”! Forbes screams, “Google’s office invasion is on!” Only it isn’t – and we have the founder’s word for it. As we reported yesterday, Google has paid an undisclosed sum for a web-based document editor, Writely. It’s a product that seems as mature as the company which produced it, Upstartle.…
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Google offers MS-style Seattlement for click fraud suit
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Andrew Orlowski
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Google will pay $90 million to settle a class action click fraud lawsuit. Any web site operator who was also a Google ad network partner who can show improper charges over the past four years will be eligible for damages. Google announced the news on a part of its site devoted to trivia, such as…