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Last update: 22/06/2008; 12:04:54 PM. August 2003 Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat           1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31             Jul   Sep Home Stories Brian Sullivan's Flickr Space Meeting by Wire Courses by Wire ELearning Development Weblog Scobleizer Scripting News Zope Plone Brian Sullivan Auto Racing Creative Problem Solving E-Learning Jazz NetMeeting Zope/Plone Recent Posts Happy 60th  6/16/08 Does Twitter have founderitis?  5/20/08 Toronto Zoo  5/19/08 Twitter continues on its trip to down the toilet bowl  5/19/08 Regular Twitter outage  5/15/08 Twitter forked again  5/14/08 Google maps test  5/9/08 Twitter $$$ continued  5/9/08 End game for Skype - $0 revenue? What about Twitter?  4/28/08 Twitter is saved!  4/23/08 Tweetless  4/21/08 Robert Scoble and Twitter  4/14/08 Twitter vs. Pownce  3/5/08 Fragile DNS  2/25/08 Value of Video Blogging  2/13/08 Why do Twitter "upgrades" always seem like "downgrades"  1/31/08 Buffalo State vs. Geneseo  1/28/08 Facebook picture security/privacy breach  1/17/08 Big Lens  1/12/08 Bill Wadman  1/7/08 Hotmail down?  12/29/07 ROM  12/27/07 Merry Christmas  12/23/07 Loren Feldman - knob extraordinaire?  12/19/07 Twitter $$$  12/15/07 Free high speed internet service - the irony  12/15/07 Lijit Search		August 19, 2003   Trillian locked out of Messenger network? Microsoft to lock down MSN Messenger network. Microsoft Corp. is making changes to its MSN instant messaging (IM) service that will lock out users of third-party software that uses the service as well as users of older versions of Microsoft's own Messenger client, the company said Tuesday. [InfoWorld: Top News] If this is true it could put Cerulean Studios: The Creators of Trillian and Trillian Pro IM Clients (and other 3rd party Messenger makers) out of business. It seems that Microsoft is leaving the door open slightly requiriing some sort of "agreement" from third parties. This could be similar to the nasty thing that AOL did to MSN Messenger when it was first introduced also claiming security issues. I hope Microsoft doesn't have that short memory. 9:37:10 PM        comment []    "Making fun of music. One song at a time..." Saw this site mentioned in the paper today. A fun site -- lots of quirky stuff. Some of it is just plain silly but some are real funny. Maybe Dave Winer should start using lyrics from here on his site instead -- see if people are paying attention. " 'scuse me while I kiss this guy ". 9:40:59 AM        comment []    "Volunteers" at Microsoft cont'd Robert Scoble replied to my (half joking) comment asking why Microsoft does not have enough paid support people to handle the Blaster worm support issues[The Scobleizer Weblog]. I think the whole thing underlines the need for Microsoft to be more proactive about dealing with "recalls" of its products. And as I have said previously I think one of the possible ways to do this is force legal liability issues on Microsoft ( and other suppliers of computer products) -- not allowing "as is", no liability ever clauses in licenses. Any other product sold commercially would have the protection of consumer law -- why not software and computer appliances? 8:29:48 AM        comment []    © Copyright 2008 Brian Sullivan.