Flickr users protest in the way they know how:
MICROSOFT: KEEP YOUR EVlL GRUBBY HANDS OFF OF OUR FLICKR
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I’ve got to that point again: I’m bored of social networking. This has happened once before, with MySpace to be precise. This time it’s Facebook.
After building up a list of contacts which include friends past and present, I’m finding fewer and fewer genuine reasons to log in. Occasionally I’ll go in to look at photographs that contacts have uploaded. But more often than not, I’m struggling to find any genuine reason to use the site.
I think this might be a common problem with social network type sites: the initial contact building phase is indeed good fun, but it doesn’t last forever. And what you are left with is a site that has little attraction apart from the odd quirky application: (fluff)Friends anyone?
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“…Microsoft’s hostile bid for Yahoo! raises troubling questions. This is about more than simply a financial transaction, one company taking over another. It’s about preserving the underlying principles of the Internet: openness and innovation.”
Yahoo! and the future of the Internet
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“The two great pillars of Open Source are the GNU project and Linux. I shan’t burden you with too much detail, I’ll just make the outrageous claim that your computer will be running some descendant of those two within the next five years and that your life will be better and happier as a result.”
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Empire, Leicester Square
Lots of internet-led hype surrounded this film, so I was intrigued, if a little skeptical, about seeing it. The film’s premise is simple: New York is under attack from an unknown creature. What makes the film more interesting, though, is precisely how the audience is shown the story: through a video recording made by the lead characters.
This has lead to some critics comparing it to The Blair Witch Project, but apart from the shaky hand-held cam approach to the action, there are no other similarities. The brilliance of the Blair Witch was that the terror was very much inferred. Not so here: after the initial confusion of exactly what had caused a giant earthquake to rock Manhatten, the threat is all very evident. In fact, the final two thirds of the film became more Alien-esque which was unexpected and something of a disappointment.
Still, I did enjoy the film and in a couple of scenes found myself open-mouthed in awe at the special effects which superbly integrated. Because none of the lead characters were particularly likeable, it was very good fun seeing them terrorised and constantly on-the-run.
Rating: 3.5 out of 5
Cloverfield (2008) – Movie Info – Yahoo! Movies
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I have been reminiscing today, so to continue the theme, here is a list of the computers I have owned over the years, starting with my earliest:
I’m going to detail my experiences with each over the next few weeks… what a treat!
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The Open University has made many courses available for free through its OpenLearn website. Some really interesting looking stuff on there, and knowing the usual quality of OU literature, I can highly recommend this resource:
OpenLearn IT and Computing courses
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Microsoft bids $44.6 billion for Yahoo (Yahoo! News)
WOW. Microsoft Offers $44.6 Billion To Acquire Yahoo (Techcrunch)
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