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Microsoft and Time Warner Team Up Against Google
PlayfullyClever wrote to mention a Reuters report on an online advertising deal between Microsoft and Time Warner. The two companies are teaming up to take on Google's advertising network. From the article: "The [WSJ] said the two companies were now focusing on a deal that would combine their advertising-related assets, with little or no money changing hands. It said they expected to reach an agreement before the end of the year, but that it was still possible that Time Warner's America Online unit could strike a deal with competitor Google instead."
There can only be one Google!! /Highlander
The amount of times I've been modded down for complaining about the amount of incredibly blatant digg farming, and here we finally have a perfect of example of why this kind of thing is a real problem. playfullyclever's strategy, aside from keyword searching the antislash database for +5 comments (they have excellent karma now btw)*, is to farm digg articles, submitting them to slashdot. You know what? I'm siding with THEM. They are actually right about this "slashbot" mentality thing, and it sickens me.
* I thought about doing this, or checking for others doing it, but couldn't be bothered. I never knew there was an actual _TOOL_ for this exact purpose. Amazing. If this was wikipedia moderators would get a tool to check for this. In fact, I'm shocked that there isn't some provision for this in the code. The lameness filter already checks for similar recent posts, mostly to prevent accidental doubles. There should be a similar script that checks +5 comments from strictly on topic previous stories. I suppose the reason we don't have all these fantastic tools is that they have the excuse of processor usage to hide behind, despite the fact that the amount of mods to be making use of this function at any one time is not that large.