Facebook's Top Secret Grand Plan
Various sites (CNet, TechRepublic) are saying that the Facebook IPO isn't for mere mortals like you and I and not to even consider buying stock. When we finally get our chance, the venture capitalists, early investors and company employees will already have had their wallets vacuumed clean and the price will be horribly inflated. But what if Facebook was about to change up a gear and bring its Armada of engineers to face the company that has already fired the first shot across their bows?
Google (Customer Services) Is Evil
Back in July I signed up for Google AdSense so I could earn a little cash to go towards hosting my little corner of the Interwebz. After a week or so of looking at a "your account is under review" page, I suddenly got an error saying I had been disapproved. Then I joined countless others in Google customer services HELL.
Don't Fear, Past-Dweller. There Is No Cloud.
If buzzwords were currency, the one worth the most at the moment is undoubtably "Cloud". The problem with buzzwords is that nobody puts any faith in them, they're bandwagons and may be gone tomorrow. Who wants to invest in something that is vague enough to mean pretty much anything? (There's a "fuzzy" joke in there somewhere).
Just What is SOCL?
Information is leaking out about a new social network called "SOCL". What makes it different from the other bazillion social networks that are starting up, perhaps trying to cut into Facebook's commercial success, is that is appears to be Microsoft's own internal, corporate, social network. And it may be soon unleashed on the general public.
Adobe Edge
I've said for a while that the first company to make a decent HTML5 Rich Media editor is going to make an absolute mint. Well, yesterday Adobe launched "Edge"... a decent HTML Rich Media editor...
Google+
Google+, Googleplus, whatever you want to call it, is a phenomenon. No other Google app has reached 10 million users two weeks.
Google Braces for Antitrust Investigation
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) have launched an antitrust probe into some of the inner workings of Google's search and advertising systems similar to the antitrust case that nearly killed Microsoft and trod hard on the dreams of one Mr William Gates III, driving him out of his own company with a defeated look on his face.