Tag Archives: software

The $48 billion lie

Once again, mainstream media are falling over themselves to parrot special interest group statistics. I’m referring to the annual study on software piracy published earlier this month by the Business Software Alliance, which alleged that piracy cost the software industry $48 billion last year, up by $8 billion from 2006. Instead of questioning the reliability… Read More »

I know what you did last minute

BusinessWeek recently ran an article, “One Place for Your Many Online Lives“, about FriendFeed, a new Web service that aggregates together feeds from different social networking services such as Facebook, YouTube and Flickr. The beauty of FriendFeed, according to the article, is that it allows you to keep track of your friends and colleagues without… Read More »

Death to social networking

Face it, social networking is a silly idea. The countless social networking sites may be fun and novel at first, but once you’ve established contact with your long-lost “friend” (loosely defined here to include everyone that you’ve come across, no matter how brief the encounter), you’ll get bored quickly with these online procrastination services. That’s… Read More »