Technology
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Feedburner Under Google: “Dreck”
Another ding for Google’s acquisition track record: I used to see a decent amount of ad dollar revenue via Feedburner… Then Google took them over, and its been a total clusterf*&k ever since… Utterly embarrassingly dreck. How worthless it is? The revenue dropped about 90%. Gee, why aren’t you folks reading TBP clicking on payday…
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MySQL or My Bad?
I was wondering a few months ago how Sun’s MySQL acquisition would impact their relationship with Oracle: How has the MySQL acquisition by Sun impacted the relationship with Sun’s biggest historical partner, Oracle? I may be misjudging Oracle’s leadership, history and culture, but my guess is they view databases as their birthright and treat any…
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IBM Threatens to Take Bat and Ball, Go Home
It isn’t often I have occasion to praise IBM, but they deserve kudos for at least threatening to pull out of formal standards bodies and openly questioning their once-beloved “standards process”: International Business Machines Corp. will review its membership in the bodies that set common standards for the technology industry and may withdraw from some,…