Adobe and Macromedia Shareholders Approve Merger [http://www.crn.com/showArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=CKLTCFYF0JQW2QSNDBGCKHSCJUMEKJVN?articleID=170100800] . Several observers said that it could make the combined company a prodigious counterweight even to Microsoft. Like the guys at Redmond are already not facing enough stress from Google and Apple.…
10 Steps to a Hugely Successful Web 2.0 Company [http://www.thisisgoingtobebig.com/2005/08/10_steps_to_a_h.html]. A very interesting article. Must read!…
A preview of Microsoft’s upcoming search engine start.com [http://www.start.com/3/]. It’s not surprising that it uses AJaX [https://www.nilkanth.com/archives/2005/08/19/ajax-with-soa/] extensively. Cool stuff guys. Google beware! [via ITejas [http://www.itejas.com/index.php/2005/08/19/start_…
Australia’s largest telco company (and one of the clients of the company that I work for), Telstra, which is also half government-owned, is to be split [http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,16286365%5E15320%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html] into separate retail and wholesale arms.…
NationMaster [http://www.nationmaster.com/] is a central data source to graphically compare nations. A nice reference to draw geo-centric inferences from. It was mentioned in a lecture on Information Culture and Communication at the uni sometime back.…
Here’s a picture [http://media.dabu.com/originals/dylan/326-2616_IMG.jpg] of the first 11 employees at Microsoft. [via Robert Scoble [http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/08/13.html#a10835]]…
Google News gets RSS and Atom feeds [http://news.com.com/Google+News+gets+RSS+and+Atom+feeds/2100-1038_3-5825454.html] . There seems to be some problems with the Atom feed [http://news.google.com/nwshp?ned=us&topic=t&output=atom] though. I remember writing a PHP…
The Thrill and Agony of Working From Home [http://www.christopherhawkins.com/08-04-2005.htm#86]…