January 2008 Archives
After all the industry speculation about MySQL being a “hot 2008 IPO”, this probably takes most of us by surprise — users, community members, customers, partners, and employees. And for all of these stakeholders, it may take some time to digest what this means. Depending on one’s relationship to MySQL, the immediate reaction upon hearing the news may be a mixture of various feelings, including excitement, pride, disbelief and satisfaction, but also anxiety.
Indeed.
P.S. Now what?
Mac users and users of NetNewsWire Lite rejoice, the best feed reader for Mac (IMHO) is now free. Voilà NetNewsWire 3.1 in its full power, gratis, indefinitely. Kudos to Brent Simmons and NewsGator for offering this wonderful gem. I've been using it for years and couldn't live without it today.
P.S. I didn't notice at first, but NewsGator's feed reader for Windows, FeedDemon is now free as well. NewsGator has divided its product lines towards two targets: businesses and individuals (look at their URLs, very clear!), the later being free, including subscription synching to the NewsGator servers (a very cool feature for those of the news junkies who constantly move from one computer to another and want to remain in sync with their news feeds).
P.S. 2 Greg Reinhacker has a good write-up on his blog that's infinitely better than the boring NewsGator press release (I agree with Tim Bray, why do we need those PRs?). The most interesting being the "attention" or activity data they're going to track with those readers (see the discussion in the comments, I believe this is very interesting if done properly).
A propos the social worm "Secret Crush" that was prompting users to unwittingly download spyware, Facebook in blocking the widget over abusing its terms of use, is saying this:
Users should employ the same precautions while downloading software from Facebook applications that they use when downloading software on their desktop.
Which basically means that Facebook (and your data on it) is secure as crap. At least someone had to set things straight, good to see it's coming from Facebook itself.
Oh Microsoft, you're such a WIMP. (I still wonder why anybody in their sane mind would want to pay for that to run a web front-end, anyway.)
