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Google, Skype and the Future of IM
Matt Veenstra sent in a nice little piece of rumor mongering about how Google's new Talk/Jabber/IM thing is just a stepping stone, but it's really just a foreshadowing of
their future buyout of Skype. Worth some thought anyway.
Got something to hide, goat boy? ;)
I'm still yet to be convinced that Google store that kind of data (other than on rumour mongering anti-google sites) - but even if they do, I have nothing to hide. If pointless phone calls to my friends and emails from collegues on automotive forums are of interest to google then good for them.
"Hey! Unless this is a nude love-in, get the hell off my property!!"
It does? You mean that Fox news, the Sun, the Inquirer, and the White House Press Corps releases have some basis in fact?
Wow! I guess Saddam DID have WMDs and John Kerry WAS a terrorist coward after all!
News? You want real nerd news?
Here's how to find the easter egg (remember wumpus?) in google talk
If that's not enough... how about
a video of a goldfish being shocked back to life with a 9 volt battery.
Nobody on slashdot would ever need directions on
how to use a vagina
Enough real news for nerds?
Time cones? Is that like time cubes?
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