<div>I can't say I'm DISAPPOINTED in Google -- I use what they offer that appeals to me, and leave off the rest -- there's no REQUIREMENT to use Google Pack if you want to use their search or the always-increasingly-cool Google Maps.
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<div>That said, they'll go along way towards convincing me NOT to use what services they do offer (and, more importantly (to them), thereby lose my eyeballs as an ad-receptacle mechanism) if they keep THIS (<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/08/google_drm_question/">
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/08/google_drm_question/</a>) kinda cr4p up ... </div>
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<div>(Yes, I realize Ashlee Vance is a wanker, but, for once, he raises a valid point ... It's incongruous, to me, at least, to say "do no evil" out of one side of your mouth, and then say, "just wait for our shiny, new, non-evil DRM tech" out the other ... )
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<div>JOE<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/9/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Nicol</b> <<a href="mailto:davidnicol@gmail.com">davidnicol@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On 1/7/06, Frank Wiles <<a href="mailto:frank@wiles.org">frank@wiles.org</a>> wrote:<br>> On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 00:43:09 -0600
<br>> Nick Manley <<a href="mailto:darkhack@gmail.com">darkhack@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> AdWords, AdSense, etc, etc, etc. These were *all* serious firsts<br>> in their areas. Hell AdWords has all by itself has revolutionized
<br>> online advertising.<br><br>Except it was obvious that that was the direction banners wre heading, ten<br>years ago. Adsense delivers what LinkExchange hinted was possible.<br><br>Obvious to me anyway.<br><br>Yahoo calendars are perfectly fine.
<br><br>So Nick, are you going to be releasing better webmail, run out of a<br>server in your kitchen or garage, any time soon?<br><br>--<br>David L Nicol<br>high on complexity<br>_______________________________________________
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