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gregory house
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Really, now. America promises a lots of rights in its constitution. People don't always get those. Throw the president and all senators and congressmen in jail. A state can renege on its promise. A company cannot. Great. If you want absolute safety, stay absolutely away from the internet and people as well. And what are parents doing? Flying kites?
gregory house
philosopher-in-chief
When attorney generals themselves are caught with their pants down, the question is likely to be raised as to whether they really know what they are doing.
heh. there was this cartoon in the paper. i dont recall. maybe toi... a judge in the chair. kanoon kee devi in the stand. judge says: how dare you say you are more important than me... i put you in contempt of the court. you are going to jail.something like that 😀
Apoorv Khatreja
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft is poised to buy 5% of Facebook for $300 million to $500 million, valuing the company at up to $10 billion. Microsoft already handles advertising for the site
Source - Slashdot | Microsoft to Buy 5% of Facebook Valuing at $10bn
Source - Slashdot | Microsoft to Buy 5% of Facebook Valuing at $10bn
they want to because they want to get their asses into everything. incidentally, microsoft is already working on their OWN social networking service since years now. cant even recall its name... Wallop... right that one.microsoft manages ads for facebook already.and also.facebook owner is pretty close to ray ozzie in microsoft. facebook would not sell out completely. but they might sell a 5% stake coz they would need the money for all the bandwidth they are eating up now.
gregory house
philosopher-in-chief
Facebook's plan to hook up the world - May. 24, 2007
Zuckerberg sometimes lapses into jarringly grandiose language, for example when he told me that what Facebook is unveiling would be "the most powerful distribution mechanism that's been created in a generation." He may be crazy, but then again, he is something of a boy wonder. He consults frequently with Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie and counts Washington Post Co. CEO Don Graham as a friend. Microsoft and the Post Co. were among the 65 companies that launched 85 new Facebook applications at F8.
he is closer to microsoft than google. so that's one thing in favor of microsoft.
orkut is not that big considering india and brazil are the majority on it.
facebook has millions of american users. and good quality users... who are in or just out of college. the creamy layer of the society.
Zuckerberg sometimes lapses into jarringly grandiose language, for example when he told me that what Facebook is unveiling would be "the most powerful distribution mechanism that's been created in a generation." He may be crazy, but then again, he is something of a boy wonder. He consults frequently with Microsoft chief software architect Ray Ozzie and counts Washington Post Co. CEO Don Graham as a friend. Microsoft and the Post Co. were among the 65 companies that launched 85 new Facebook applications at F8.
he is closer to microsoft than google. so that's one thing in favor of microsoft.
orkut is not that big considering india and brazil are the majority on it.
facebook has millions of american users. and good quality users... who are in or just out of college. the creamy layer of the society.
gregory house
philosopher-in-chief
It takes an idiot of the most ingenious kind to run a multi billion dollar business into the ground. Not that it has not happened before (Enron, Worldcom etc..). But companies like IBM have successfully undergone a major change in the way they do business. I assume something similar will happen to Microsoft in the future, with Linux gaining popularity.
I think sooner or later, they might have to do a rethink on Windows and plan a Microsoft Linux (?) with seamless Windows compatibility as far as applications are concerned. Maybe they are doing it right now.
@Sushubh
For a moment I thought you personally knew the Facebook fellow (Zuckerberg sometimes lapses into jarringly grandiose language, for example when he told me...) and my mind went into six-degrees-of-separation mode. Then I realised that it was an extract of the article above.
I think sooner or later, they might have to do a rethink on Windows and plan a Microsoft Linux (?) with seamless Windows compatibility as far as applications are concerned. Maybe they are doing it right now.
@Sushubh
For a moment I thought you personally knew the Facebook fellow (Zuckerberg sometimes lapses into jarringly grandiose language, for example when he told me...) and my mind went into six-degrees-of-separation mode. Then I realised that it was an extract of the article above.
microsoft definitely has a future. at least for the next couple of years. especially for corporates.its definitely not going anywhere for the next 10 years.@house: heh. the news articles now sounds like blog articles.facebook dude is turning out to be a very smart guy. now he has to prove whether he would end up like sabeer bhatia someday or the guys who made kazaa then skype and now joost.
gregory house
philosopher-in-chief
...Facebook users are claiming that this is an invasion of their privacy considering it is very hard to opt out of this new service from the company.....
Hah. First you go and plaster all your details on a 'social networking' website and then when it decides to go and do something strange, talk of privacy?
Privacy is good. Privacy is excellent. You won't get it, however.
Hah. First you go and plaster all your details on a 'social networking' website and then when it decides to go and do something strange, talk of privacy?
Privacy is good. Privacy is excellent. You won't get it, however.
