Disappointed in Google

[Joe Fish]

I can't say I'm DISAPPOINTED in Google -- I use what they offer that appeals
to me, and leave off the rest -- there's no REQUIREMENT to use Google Pack
if you want to use their search or the always-increasingly-cool Google Maps.

That said, they'll go along way towards convincing me NOT to use what
services they do offer (and, more importantly (to them), thereby lose my
eyeballs as an ad-receptacle mechanism) if they keep THIS (
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/08/google_drm_question/) kinda cr4p up
...

(Yes, I realize Ashlee Vance is a wanker, but, for once, he raises a valid
point ... It's incongruous, to me, at least, to say "do no evil" out of one
side of your mouth, and then say, "just wait for our shiny, new, non-evil
DRM tech" out the other ... )





JOE


On 1/9/06, David Nicol <davidnicol at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 1/7/06, Frank Wiles <frank at wiles.org> wrote:
> > On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 00:43:09 -0600
> > Nick Manley <darkhack at gmail.com> wrote:
> >   AdWords, AdSense, etc, etc, etc.  These were *all* serious firsts
> >   in their areas.  Hell AdWords has all by itself has revolutionized
> >   online advertising.
>
> Except it was obvious that that was the direction banners wre heading, ten
> years ago.  Adsense delivers what LinkExchange hinted was possible.
>
> Obvious to me anyway.
>
> Yahoo calendars are perfectly fine.
>
> So Nick, are you going to be releasing better webmail, run out of a
> server in your kitchen or garage, any time soon?
>
> --
> David L Nicol
> high on complexity
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