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Slashback: Echo, Lunchbox, Questions
TodLiebeck writes "The Echo framework, which is used for creating web applications that approach the functionality of rich clients, has received some significant updates since its last showing on Slashdot. The community-developed EchoPoint component library has hit v1.0 and now provides more than 50 components such as a chart container and a rich text editor. The recently released version 1.1 of Echo is now available under the Mozilla Public License (in addition to the LGPL). More information can be found in these two announcements on TheServerSide, and this recent article in the SDTimes."
shimmerkid writes "After seeing almost nothing about audiolunchbox.com in your recent story about the perfect online music store, I felt a little vindicated when I received an email newsletter from them claiming they have become the "largest independent digital music store in the world." They have added Beggars/Matador and Kill Rock Stars among others, promising a total of 500,000 tracks (at 99 cents a track for unrestricted 192 kbps MP3 and Ogg) by December, and over a million tracks in 2005. The best part is that they pay the artists 65 cents a track."
Noksagt writes "The 50 questions for Bush and Kerry that were moderated and commented on in a previous /. story have been pared down to 20.
Vote for 10 of them at The New Voters Project Presidential Youth Debate. You don't even need /. mod points--just a valid email address!"
How is your comment related to the demise of Google?
...", again laughing; then the line was dead. Mind you, we are paying > 80,000 USD per month in AdSense-fees.
Just let's face the facts:
- Google has long ago sold out to AOL Time Warner; the next round of IPO will increase their shares and they are likely to achieve a total majority of shares by the end of 2005.
- Gmail fails to meet the standard of users above Novice-level; those who are used to the comfort of a sophisticated email-client, like Microsoft Outlook, connected to a powerful and secure server-side solution, like Microsoft Exchange. When I called the Google-helpdesk ("Hoogle") and asked for POP3 and IMAP support, I heard the insulting sound of muffled laughter, then a "Sorry, we really don't
- Gmail still does not work fully with less sopisticated browsers, such as Mozilla and Firefox. This may be caused by lacking standards-support in these browsers. Fortunately, barely nobody uses these nowadays, so the problem can safely be ignored for the time being. After all, the standard user-agent for web access is the mature and secure Internet Explorer
- Google's investment in Doubleclick.com and other "online marketing" agencies is a dubious move; personally, I can live with text-only advertising as practised by Google so far, but our company ads are exclusively deployed using latest Macromedia Flash technology, because this simply is what our professional customers expect of us
- The ethical credibility of Google has been on the decline since a new employee of Google (a "noogler", according to the company-internal nomenclatura, or "Goospeak") has leaked some disturbing information regarding cruel rituals of initiation, including gross acts of homoerotic sexuality, horses and mutants. However, law authorities are now more alert towards Google, since the so called FAGACT has passed the Californian legislative. Trivia: the percentage of heterosexual Google-employees has reached an all-time low of << 0.09% as of an assessment on 2004-08-22.
- Google is the favourite search engine for terrorists, paedophiles, communists, neo-nazis and George W. Bush (the last one commented: "Whew, this is tricky!" when confronted with the confusing user interface of Google)