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I'm willing to bet Vodacom's gonna get it - there's no other operator with that sort of infrastructure. Especially now that Vodafone has major share.

With you on this one. Rex had that initial surge of viral potential, but honestly, I get more excitement from Muti nowadays.

This doesn't mean that the field isn't open to someone else who would like to try. CrazyTalk and text-to-speech software is available to just about anyone, after all :)

~ Wogan

No, that's way, way too close for comfort. I'd pursue with all due haste - things will probably be a lot tougher when they finally go out of Beta.

What makes this really fishy is that they registered the domain anonymously. There seems to be a mostly-authentic-looking MySpace page, but we all know how easily that could be faked.

Maybe it's just his unhealthy obsession with alligators? Lol...

Right handed, use left hand for cutting and stirring, and I stir in a counter-clockwise direction.

And I make damn good coffee ;)

~ Wogan

Funny you should say that, Wade. I know a particularly wealthy investment banker who buys and sells companies as a hobby. He actually told me once - money isn't everything. It's what you do with it that counts. And how lucky you are - that plays a role too.

~ Wogan

To me, happiness is freedom. And financial security being a major source of freedom, I would agree with Justin 100% that money is a major source of happiness. Unfortunately, being a double-edged sword, money can also bring unhappiness.

It's that personal "enough" margin that needs to be found and balanced. And that, unfortunately, is the trick that most people don't get. The world media constantly blasts us with "more ... More ... MORE!", and people go for it. I believe it's called "advertising", lol.

For once, a sensible blog post about money. Quite amazing. Well done :)

~ Wogan

As I said - it will appeal to a bunch of people that have Macs and need IE.

Have you tried browsershots.org?

So according to HitsLink, about 75% of internet users worldwide use IE. I'm guessing that the major reason for this is that more than 90% of the desktop OSs in the world are Windows, and that 100% of them have shipped with a version of IE.

http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qpr...

Couple that with a generation of computer users who don't want to mess around with software installs and plugins and other stuff, and just want Internet access - and you get to 75% very easily.

But what I said is true, in that there is a growing trend to move away from IE: http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qpr.... Note how the numbers changed dramatically after October 2007. Falling almost 1%/year.

Maybe I should have said "stick to switching to Firefox". FF has just proven itself over and over again. And given that Dell started shipping Ubuntu machines (with FF as the OS's browser of choice), we might see an even steeper decline in IE popularity.

Unless - as I said - there was an uber-talented MS developer that created a new browser that completely put the rest in the shade, and then shipped it with Windows 7.

All these things take time, so it'll be a while before we see any of this come to pass.

And as far as development goes - I deliberately use an older version of FF (1.5.0.13). Because if it works on here, it will probably work on any later version of IE, Opera or Safari that you can throw at it ;)

~ Wogan

Interesting experiment. Thing is - the general user trend these days has been to move away from IE. Now, unless if some really talented person made a few really well-informed changes to IE7 to make it safer, more user-friendly and less corrosive to other computer activities, I think the public at large will stick to Firefox, Opera and Safari.

But I'm sure this will appeal to a tiny niche of people that use Macs and need IE ;)

~ Wogan

Maybe because ... they don't care? Seems the most logical reason to me.

~ Wogan