Aug. 28, 2007
The Windows genuine advantage glitch
Seattle Post Intelligencer
Todd Bishop tracks Microsoft on the West coast.
”In Windows Vista, failing validation can cause a machine to gradually slip into a “reduced functionality mode.”
Acer/Gateway turn to the home
Tech Target
This blog has news about Acer’s home market plans.
“Acer doubles its presence in Gateway’s lucrative but highly competitive home market.”
The trust network
Turbo Blog
Turbo Todd Watson is in his 15th year with IBM. He began his career working on two software magazines, for which he wrote on a variety of business technology topics before joining IBM’s Internet division in 1995.
”As I’ve started to use Facebook more and more, I’m realizing its virality and usefulness is tied directly to my social “graph,” the “friends” I’m linked to. And that is something that is uniquely absent from the Google experience. Also, now that the Facebook f8 platform is allowing applications to be submitted and integrated into one’s Facebook profile, suddenly the noise and utility filter for accumulating applications is governed by your network. Meaning, it’s the idea of six degrees of separation evolved to some useful end. I don’t need to traverse an endless listing of widgets and gadgets. Suddenly, I can get personal recommendations for cool new tools because my own network is providing them. Example: If John adopts the new “Video” application on Facebook, and suddenly John’s friend Suzy sees that John is using that tool, because Suzy trusts John she’ll be more inclined to both learn about and install the new application. And so on, and so on, and so on…pretty soon you’ve got a powerful and very personal network.”
