Book Reviews


[Day Permalink] Tuesday, March 30, 2004

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Google Gets Its Groove On: "The search-engine stud isn't about to be pushed around by competitors. Google unveils a new look designed to drive more traffic to its shopping service, Froogle, and to highlight little-known search tools." [Wired News]


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Today I received a draft version of my article on net collaboration software. This is a short introduction to the available choices, and covers the basic requirements (audio/video, instant messaging, file transfer, shared blackboard, application sharing, etc.). I reviewed software such as Marratech Pro for the article. The text is written in Finnish and will appear in the next issue of the magazine.


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Can you have too many choices? "Strangely, we lose sight of our human resilience when we make big choices. People are consistently puzzled that so many things they had dreaded - from getting fired to being ditched by a spouse - 'turned out for the best.' [...] The surprise isn't how often we make bad choices; the surprise is how seldom they defeat us."