It seems Google Wave is going to force many content producers to reassess the role of collaboration in news gathering and the creative process. It will also force publishers to reassess how they make money from their content.
Google Wave is an amazing place right now, like a new nation that has sprung forth and is finding its feet. To wander around in Google Wave feels like standing next to Romulus and Remus, overlooking the seven hills of Rome, or watching over Jefferson's shoulder as he writes the US constitution.
Reports are emerging of faulty Snow Leopard install discs, yet the
Apple support line's only advice is to go back to the store - which has
most likely sold out.
Hopes for native Blu-ray support
in Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 operating system have been dashed
with confirmation the new OS won't play Blu-ray movies out of the box.
Australia's
copyright police have used the cover of the internet filtering debate
to launch a surprise attack on ISPs, with seven movie houses filing an
action against progressive ISP iiNet - claiming it harbours pirates.
I never thought I'd see the day, but Apple has finally introduced a
right-click button on its latest range of MacBooks, MacBook Pros and the MacBook Air.
If
television networks abided by a Couch Potatoes' Bill of Rights for
viewers, they wouldn't face such a threat from file-sharing networks
such as BitTorrent.
Until
I'm prepared to abandon Leopard's iCal for an online app like Google
Calendar, BusySync offers a marriage of convenience between the online
and offline worlds.
After struggling to recreate my Windows backup regime on Ubuntu and now
Leopard, Amazon's S3 unlimited online storage offers the perfect
multi-platform solution when combined with Jungle Disk.
My quest to abandon Windows for Apple's Leopard or Ubuntu's Gutsy Gibbon has become a quest to abandon desktop software, but I'm yet to find an online email client that gets a tick in every box.
David Bass
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