Geek And Poke

Robustness With Google

Letting Google be responsible for your whole digital life can get dangerous (see Marc Orchant).

It's Just Not Easy

Microsoft cripples Vista to support DRM (see Slashdot).
Why do we buy it?

The Next Peanut Butter?

Donna Bogatin writes:

In “Google Top Five: Googley things I admire” I commend Google for its tirelessness in wanting to “win” at everything. By its own acknowledgement, however, Google may be privileging quantity over quality.

Is Google the next peanut butter?

The Gillmorian Pageview Model

Hurra, thanks to Joel Spolsky (seen through Marc Orchant) I've just understood my first GestureLab post.

It's a great experience.

Animal Farm

Dan Farber has some long term predictions (until 2025).
Among others he predicts a Google-Microsoft-Merger.

Deleterious Sites

See Slashdot.

Hubris 2.0

Facebook does know what it's worth (see Techcrunch).

Our Collective Stupidity

Goggle shows that "our collective consciousness" is definetely not interested in politics.
It's just sex, sport and celebrities (e.g. Paris Hilton).
As Nicholas Carr just posted: Good to know that some smart guys still show us what's important.

The Most Valuable Person Of The Year

We all are the Person of the Year (see Dan Farber).
But what's more important: The content we create or the price one can sell us (see Donna Bogatin)?

To Know It's Web 2.0

David Berlind and Dan Farber ask about 10 reasons how to know it's Web 2.0 (and not just 1.0).
That's my humble contribution.