Social networking shows explosive growth in Australia
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| New research shows that the use of social media such as YouTube in
| Australia is soaring pushing Australians onto international sites at
| the expense of local destinations.
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http://www.itwire.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13345&Itemid=1054
Google gives away FeedBurner
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| You knew this was coming. Weeks after it paid $100 million for
| news-feed management company Feedburner, Google has removed all
| price tags from the company's services.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/05/google_feedburner_services_free/
Perspective: Open standards for social networking
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| Looking over the landscape of recent blog posts on open social networking,
| it's clear that folks are interested in connecting together some of their
| disparate accounts on a wide range of social networks.
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http://news.com.com/2010-1038_3-6194817.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news
Here is what Sweaty Steve said about standards...
Ballmer on SQL Server 2005
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| [Author:] Is there any chance you'll support the Open Document Format for
| Office Applications, which the Massachusetts government's IT division is
| adopting as its standard?
|
| [Sweaty:] We've announced support today for the PDF format, which is one of
| the interoperability formats the state of Massachusetts has indicated. We
| have our own formats for doing kind of bridge documents of our own styles. So
| I think that's where our energies are focused right now.
|
| [Author:] Never say never?
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| [Sweaty:] That's where our energies are focused.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1939940098;fp;2;fpid;4
Could Microsoft be more vain and egocentric?
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