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Microsoft Plans News Aggregator
wyldeone writes "ZDNet says Microsoft is planning on creating a news aggregation service similar to Google's Google News. It will draw headlines from over 4,800 sites. It will also provide customized feeds, similar to Googles News alerts. Here is the beta version of the site."
Finally a news service uncluttered with :)
anti-Microsoft stories.
Yet Another Web Site
Why is it that Microsoft feels the need to do everything Google does? Microsoft is not exactly losing money.
I'm waiting for the day that Microsoft announces that they are buying back all their stock just so they can do another IPO to be like Google!
I wish someone would write a good news "digester" that could help me read news from all these news "aggregators". For example, a simple client-side program that would constantly troll the aggregators and then each morning spit out a simple message like "nothing much new today" or "mostly boring stuff" and help me break my addiction to online news...heh...
yet more "innovation" from Microsoft - have the EVER thought of ANYTHING original.
Let's see...
An MS-bashing post.
On Slashdot.
Castigating MS for stealing ideas.
How original!
Something about a conflict, dumping physical memory, and then the browser went all blue and restarted. Strange, I've never seen anything like it.
Ok, Slashdotters, here's your chance to googlebomb (hmmm, ok, guess we need a new catchphrase here) the MSN Newsbot. Go to the site and use the "Find Your News" search field to look for things like FOSS, SCO-MS interplay, RIAA, or get really nasty and search for things like goatse and other wrteched sites.
Let's give MSN's newest beta a warm sendoff...
Rule #1 -- Politics always trumps technology.
Well, it makes you want to stab your eyes out for one...
NMG
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You must be kidding. A patent on Google News? Do you think Google News was the first website to collect a bunch of news stories from various sources and post them on a page? Do you even know what site you're reading right now?
Microsoft isn't ripping anyone off any more than Google is.
This is Prostetnic Borg-o Gates of the Galactic Microsoft Planning Council.
We are about to build a Galactic Longhorn Expressway through your system and, regretably, your Open Source has been scheduled for demolition.
Plans have been on display at 1 Microsoft Way for 5 of your Earth years, locked in a filing cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign on the front saying "Beware of the DMCA".
The demolition will take slighly more than 2 of your Earth decades, just as soon as we've got XP Service Pack 2 working.
Prostetnic Ballmer will be passing amongst you shortly with a collection box into which you may deposit your Linux CDs and free software floppy disks as part of the amnesty.
Thank you for your time...
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
Microsoft plans new aggravator..
Made perfect sense to me at the time... I was just surprised that they'd put that in a press release.
Free Software: Like love, it grows best when given away.
Emphasis on 3rd line added by me....
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We tell you what's going on, and you will believe...
I can see this state-of-the-art algorithm used by MSN News.
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This just in. Microsoft has announced a beta version of a revolutionary new news aggregation service to be called "Dotdotbackslash." Unlike automatic services such as Google News, this one relies on the human judgements of hundreds of Microsoft MVPs to locate and make available the most relevant information needed for IT managers.
Slogan: "News for PHBs--Words that Buzz"
"How to Do Nothing," kids activities, back in print!
Of course it's brand-spanking new! Even as we speak, Microsoft is gearing up to release its revolutionarily innovatively original news site, Dashslot! Dashslot, whose slogan is "FUD for Nerds, Truth in Tatters", will allow members of the ever growing anti-OSS movement to coelesce into a coherent online community, by conglomerating news stories about events and/or legislation that threaten the blessed Utopia Microsoft has promised to us, the Faithful. Members, once logged in with a Microsoft Passport ID, may leave comments on an electronic bulletin board via the relative ease of Outlook, or simply respond to them, whether or not they relate to the original news stories to which they are tied. Flaming is kept to a minimum, because no one is Anonymous on Dashslot! Everyone is your Komrade! As such, it is in everyone's best interest to report any suspicious behavior to the site's moderators: Admiral Octopus-Sashimi, Bloody, and Indian On Your Knees, who outsources our polls.
Unlike other news conglomeration sites, Dashslot will allow you to use any HTML tags in your comments whatsover, including the famous tag, <script language="vbscript">. You thus are even allowed to embed unsigned ActiveX Controls and DLLs into your comments for the convenience of your komrades, but they will need to run Internet Explorer 6 or higher (on minimum security settings) to fully appreciate your efforts. But wait, there's more! You have limited ability to moderate the scores of comments left by other komrades, which ultimately affects their karma. This is where Dashslot derives its famous logo: -1
Since there are many news sites hostile our ideology, Dashslot includes a new feature called "One Click Denial of Service". This feature, also called the Dashslot effect, allows a Komrade to crash an offending IIS webserver in the course of a single visit! (Rumors of this feature already occurring spontaneously are treasonous and subject to execution without trial by firing squad, who will then in turn be executed by gas, lethal injection, and the electric chair all at once. Please consult your MS Passport Terms of Service for details regarding mandatory Firing Squad Duty.)
Dashslot will bring together the programmers and techies of the world, and bind them to a single unifiying vision, without the corrupting influence of other opinions! We will help everyone on all corporate levels communicate on the same level with eachother, because we will have already told you what to think beforehand! We will rally the faithful masses to the glorious banner of proprietary software, defining the dawn of our New World Order! Dashslot's presence shall herald the coming of a new age of hope for those who remained faithful to Microsoft. Everyone else is just a freaking heretic and will be litigated to hell. See you in court.
Solomon Chang
"Twice half-assed makes an ass whole." --Solomon K. Chang