Tag: Fun
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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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‘Take out a subscription to The Register. Then cancel it, and sign it Disgusted Wikipedian’
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Andrew Orlowski
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An early taxonomy of excuses. Mostly variations of “It’s the user’s fault.” “He who feels punctured must have been a bubble – Lao Tsu A funny thing happened last week. Author and broadcaster – and veteran OpenOffice user – Andrew Brown wrote a piece in The Guardian a fortnight ago demolishing some of the more…
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The Internet Services Puddle
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Andrew Orlowski
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What Ray Ozzie’s strategic memo really says. Ever the master of public relations, Microsoft has always been able to figure its way out of a tight spot with the use of a judiciously leaked memo. Remember when AOL merged with Netscape back in 1998? Time to take a leak. Remember 2000, when Symbian was stealing…
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Web 2.0: It’s … like your brain on LSD!
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Andrew Orlowski
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. My invitation to define Web 2.0 – Tim O’Reilly was clearly struggling – biggest postbag at The Register, ever: five a minute for 24 hours. You’ll see from the suggestions that even before most people had heard the buzzword, they already knew what it portended: a consultancy racket. See the original here, and the…
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Meg Whitman’s $2.6bn spam goof?
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Andrew Orlowski
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“eBay looks less fearsome when you’re upside down,” says the young CEO behind the online auction house’s great Chinese rival Jack Ma. To encourage new hires at his Alibaba.com, Ma asks them to perform handstands. Maybe that won’t be necessary for much longer, as eBay is a lot less fearsome – and a lot poorer –…