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Blogs have birthdays. Or is it blogs have anniversaries? In any case, blogiversaries are a rapidly growing phenomenon on the internet.
The online services provider has made a couple of acquisitions to bolster its broadband userbase.
Web 2.0 is an honor system where everyone expects the crowd to be noble and then becomes angry at the reality of honor systems. Anonymity is a ski mask for drive-by commentators. Though a rude blog comment is often nothing more than cursing behind the windshield, when the road-raged driver becomes a crusader outside your storefront, it's serious.
Been thinking about this one a lot recently. We all change and (hopefully!) evolve over time.
Back when I worked at Microsoft I was always looking at Google and asking myself "what if they shipped this" or "what if they shipped that?"
Amazon.com opened up its online video download service, called Unbox, to its customers. Unbox provides film and TV episode sales, and movie rentals, that can be played on a PC or a TV. The offering has drawn a great big "meh" from some quarters, though.
