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I'm not sure what constitutes a "coffee table" book in Mountain View, or wherever there might be another high concentration of Internet…
Every community operator knows that it takes different kinds of participants to be successful. Some people come looking for answers, others come to help. Some like to expound at length, while others say little. Some are lurkers, others are prolific contributors.
The European Commission is lobbying mobile phone operators to discount their rates for text messages and is threatening to put price caps in place if they don't comply. Recently price caps were put in place for roaming charges.
Humpty Dumpty: “When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.” Alice: “The question is, whether you can make words mean so many different things.”
When Google’s U.S. market share changes by a percentage point or two, it doesn’t turn many heads - Google has been ahead, is ahead, and will presumably stay ahead, regardless. But as Google’s Chinese share changes, a lot of eyes are watching to see what will happen.
Friendfeed is a cool new service by ex-Gmail and “don’t be evil” inventor Paul Buchheit. Friendfeed (which partly looks Google-like, too) tries to solve the problem of keeping track of your friends activities on the multitude of social networks, blogging tools, photo upload sites and so on... a kind of meta aggregator, sitting on top of popular websites watching for news.
