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Tuesday, March 23, 2004
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Two Finnish businessmen shot dead in Baghdad: "Two members of a Finnish business delegation were killed in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Monday morning. The two men were reportedly reportedly shot dead as they were alone in a car driving to the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity. [...] The men were members of a business delegation that left for Iraq on Saturday hoping to revive old business links."
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Google Needs Orkut: "Eric [Schmidt, Google CEO] acknowledges that Orkut was strategic to Google's ability to know more about its users so as to provide better service to them, and when it comes out of beta, it'll be integrated in some way into Google." [Jeremy Zawodny's blog]
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Blaming the User is Rude: 'If you try, using an "unsupported" browser or operating system, to visit the Yahoo! Companion web site [...] you're greeted with a rude message [...] The blame is on the user. "Your current browser doesn't support..." should be turned around: "Yahoo! Companion doesn't currently support your browser." Why? Because it's the truth. It's not my browser's fault at all, it's Yahoo's.' [Jeremy Zawodny's blog]
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Search wider: "Technorati has gone live with a raft of improvements that David Sifry explains here. I'm on the company's advisory board, and it's nice to see so many good ideas and suggestions by so many people show up in the (continuously un)finished product." [Doc Searls Weblog]
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Microsoft against the European Union revisited -- Comment()
Microsoft To Be Fined E500M By European Union?: "European Commission is in the process of fining Microsoft 497 million Euros ($613 million). The most important reason for the fine was the refusal by Microsoft to share more information about its products with competitors." This reminds me of the story The Last Rebel Coders: "In the beginning of the 21st century Microsoft had difficulties in fighting open source development, which spread like cancer. In the year 2003 negotiations to open the European Union to Microsoft products run into a dead end." Originally I wrote this story in 2001 as a column for a Finnish IT magazine, and later translated the text into English. Perhaps I was right and there will be a fight between USA and Europe?
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The confessions of a semi-successful author: "I've published several books, won adoring reviews, and even sold a few copies. But I've made almost no money and had my heart broken. Here's everything you don't want to know about how publishing really works." [Salon.com]
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