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One or two seats won't make a difference in a Parliament of 785 MEPs - so hold your horses. They will be a fringe party with a fringe issue. In the current economic turmoil voters have other problems in mind than copyright laws ...

What an odd article. On one side wants to predict the end of certain services and technologies - and on the other it says "No one knows ...".

Please either you write articles with good insights what's going on or not. Anyone with half a brain could have written these "insights". Of course all media usage changes and new technologies will have an impact on older ones. Dah ...

Evolutionary steps in the development of digital habits are bloody obvious. If one technology is better it will kill weaker ones or drive them out of specific channels.

Twitter will hardly replace Google in any way, but it might became the dominant technology for recommendations, comments and general blabla on the net. But Twitter won't crawl huge amounts of web pages, index images and allow complex search requests. And because of it's limited space it's not a tool for complex content anyway. This niche will still belong to articles on websites and blogs.

Twitterfox (for twittering URLs quickly). It's small and practical.

Twitterfox (for twittering URLs quickly). It's small and practical.

I love these self centered and rather uninformed "reports" about Europe from American companies.

1. Twitter is hardly as important in Europe as it is in the US of A.

2. Europe is not as addicted to the newest trends as the US is. So the number of consumers using twitter is pretty low. Even European high-tech companies (and their employees and CEOs) lag behind.

3. The most important factor is language. Sure English is the business language for most people - but not for everybody. Do you then tweet in at least five different languages (FR, EN, DE, IT & ES)? How does the translations? And what will be lost in translation? And keeping your message "clean & sharp" in several languages according to your different marketing messages in often very different markets is a tough task ... for a single CEO.

I think a shakedown is a good thing.

The term startup is dead - at least since the bubble burst 2001.

Now everybody who starts a new company is simply an entrepreneur like everybody else.

And the internet as a market has progressed as well - it should be no longer be expected from new companies to make money in a distant future, but within a reasonable and acceptable time for the investor

Too many new web companies deliver too little and just pollute the market with a variation of another insanely great idea. Most of them don't have the stomach, nor the depth and business concept to really appeal to user tp pay for their services or make money otherwise.

"I will trust google not to abuse my info so long as their founders remain at the head."

a.) Define abuse

b.) What will you do once they are gone - ask Google to delete all the data about you they have collected the last 10 years?

c.) The Meek Shall Inherit the Earth. Google's Earth that is ...

Just for note taking I find FF Notebook the best. It stores everything locally, so you are not F***** when you Internet connection goes down.

Oke, 777 did the trick - although this doesn't make me feel very 'secure'.

;-)

Thanks for your support.

I am using several plugs with no problems at all.

wp-content / 755
plugins / 755
wp-greet-box / 755

Also check this screenshot:

http://www.orangeguru.biz/download/greetboxerro...

Thanks for the quick reponse:

Found only one version of the plug on my FTP server and only one version shows up on the plugin page.

Hmmm, all I get is:

Plugin could not be activated because it triggered a fatal error.

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wp_greet_box() (previously declared in /www/htdocs/w008ee35/wp-content/plugins/wp-greet-box/wp-greet-box.php:558) in /www/htdocs/w008ee35/wp-content/plugins/wp-greet-box/wp-greet-box.php on line 559

Any ideas?

I am very bored by these "articles" by Blonde 2.0 - they all read like blatent advertising or press releases.

Mashable so far always tried to keep some form of "news" reporting from the industry - but this ...

"Almost half the downloads came from the United States (2,100,411), followed by Spain, Iran, France and the UK."

Wow, you really seem unable to read the map and check the big downloaders ranking:

Currently:

US 2,145,089
Germany 380,090
Japan 296,294

Spain 213,330
UK 209,226
France 205,991
Iran 179,169

FF is very popular in both Germany and Japan. The ranking has been pretty stable since yesterday.

Combining two web failures to create a bigger one just doesn't compute. The history of giant mergers is mostly one of failure.

Google was late to the game - and they made it to the top because they delivered superior products and marketing. Alta Vista, Yahoo, Ask and Microsoft had all the time, money and talent to create equal or better solutions - but they failed.

The merger won't create better products - just tr save money on operations and reduce diversity in the market. All that talk about synergies is rubbish - Yahoo! and MS gobbled up tons of companies - and still failed to manifest those great synergies.

For example Yahoo acquired Overture - which was ahead in context sensitive advertising. But it was Google who really made money from it.

It's all about products, not size.

@Nick Schmidt: Companies endorse OpenStanddards IF it suits their business practice. If standards would really be endorsed on a great scale, then Office Applications or Web Browser shouldn't have compatibility problems?

Underdogs like do adobt Standards, because it allows them to enter markets. Markets leader try to enforce their standards or simply modify them to their own liking.

... and if your comment was a Troll comment it was pretty weak ...

So far this means nothing.

Google just made sure it has some say in the API for Social Sites and MySpace needed some positive PR.

So far none of these Social Sites has come up with a good set of ideas for cross communication and setting a standard for Users for example to make friends across different sites (like having a shared buddy list for Stumble, Linkedin and MySpace). Facebook is mostly about 'funny' applications ...

Look at the IM market - still all those nifty porgrams want to talk with each other: AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Skype, Google talk etc. ... do only very limited connectivity to each other. It's a shamefully fragmented market.

I don't think ANY of these companies is willing to endorse any open standard or communication APIs, they are too scared of user hijacking and easy user profile migration. That's bad for your quarterly reports, that's bad for your profits ...

@JJ: People are people .. everywhere. Dave W. has left a long streak of angry, disappointed or bemused people behind him ...

Maybe so. But was anyone ever forced to read his blog? And is anyone forced to read this new A-List Assault Teams? No. Most of this stuff is just opinions ... so we can choose to get excited or aggravated about them.

Buhuhu. Bad people are taking over the world. The revolution eats one of it's inventors. Maybe the first homo bloggies are simply burned out and have to move aside?

Of course there is a lot of crap out there and people attacking people. But that's fairly human - isn't it. Maybe the founding geek bloggers have finally to realize that NORMAL people and social behaviour has caught up with them?

This is developing into a trauma - very similar to old internet farts talking about the beginnings of usenet or compuserve ... the days before mainstream happened.

The 'golden age' of blabla a purely 'educated' geek flame wars. Yeah, sure! Dream on ...

Looks nice. But I am still sticking to W2K - so no IE7 for me. ;-)

Awesome!

It is about time that Google starts to unify all services and subdomains. I am sick and tired of the many different interfaces. Yahoo! always did a good (but also a bit boring) job of provding a familiar interface to all services.

Well, you can always merge with another one man empire to create a bigger and better one. Let me know if you are interested in an exchange of ideas. You know where to find me.