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Kai-Fu Lee and company now have new office space available to them in China. Meanwhile, Google has begun searching for more engineers…
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.
Ask.com has provided some updates to its Smart Answer service, making some additions to deliver information about hurricanes and tropical storms to users of the search engine.
