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Conversations With An Anonymous Facebook Employee

Google: Firms can get rid of Office in a year

  • "In a year, most enterprises will have the choice to "get rid of [Microsoft] Office if they chose to", suggests Dave Girouard, president of Google's enterprise division.

    He acknowledged that Docs is currently "much less mature" than Google Mail or Calendar. "We know it. We wouldn't ask people to get rid of Microsoft Office and use Google Docs because it is not mature yet," he said.

    But, this is expected to change in a year, when the company's introduces some "thirty to fifty" updates to Docs to beef up the SaaS (software-as-a-service) office suite. These will include updates to features and performance, Girouard said."

The Complete Guide to Google Wave: How to Use Google Wave

People who sign up for Twitter, post once, then never return

PrestaShop Free Open-Source e-Commerce Software for Web 2.0

Doodle – Easy Scheduling (online polls)

Filebrowser – Thumbnail images and view them in a browser

Forum Software Reviews – Choose the best bulletin board for your community

How China 50 Cent Army Could Wreck Web 2.0

  • The CCP has hired thousands of freelance Internet propagandists whose job is to infiltrate chat rooms, message boards and comment areas on the Internet posing as ordinary users to voice support for the agenda and interest of the CCP. They praise China’s one-party system and condemn anyone who criticizes China’s policy on Tibet. They comment aggressively on news reports about China’s food-safety problems, relations with Taiwan, suppression of bird-flu and AIDS information, Internet censorship, jailing of dissidents, support of Sudan’s military in Darfur and other sensitive topics. Comments applaud the Chinese government and slam its critics, all using scripts and lines approved by the party.

    Some estimates claim that the 50 Cent Army includes a whopping 300,000 people. If that’s accurate, China's freelance propagandists exceed in number the total populations of 47 countries.

Gallery of default anonymity

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