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I'm teasing of course. I don't expect to raise anybody's salary with a discussion of quantitative variables (or anything else). But I…
The Google Library Project gains new members fairly frequently, and a comparable service from Microsoft also does all right. A number of libraries have steered clear of the corporate rivalry, though, and have instead opted to side with the Open Content Alliance (OCA).
November 13th will be the new date for the European Union Competition Commission to give its decision on Google's acquisition of DoubleClick, based on the Commission's perception of competition issues.
A couple of new domains appeared last week on Microsoft's nameservers, both containing the HealthVault name and registered for com/net/org.
It maybe that Jason Calacanis just likes stirring up the SEO crowd, or it could be that he really feels a certain way about them. Either way, the hostility that met him at the beginning of the week meets him again at its close.
A lot of signs indicate that Google is preparing Orkut for something big; it may well want the service to compete with the likes of MySpace and Facebook. But the latest update - allowing users to keep 100 photos in their “orkut albums” - isn’t impressing too many people.
