One wonders what the financial cost of these blunders (legal fees, cost of a recall, cost of developing a patch, etc) is compared to the theoretical cost of "lost sales" they thwarted due to piracy. In other words, it may have actually been cheaper to let a few people copy the CD for free instead of fussing with all this DRM nonsense.
We've been working on something quite similar to 'Window's Live' over at fyuze.com. It does the standard RSS/Atom thing, plus integration with Flickr, Amazon, Yahoo, Technorati, Feedster, IceRocket, Upcoming.org, del.icio.us, and Indeed. Check it out. Works great in Firefox.
Since we're on the topic of "start" pages, I thought I would mention my own project, fyuze.com, which was mentioned here on slashdot some time ago. It started out as an RSS aggregator, but in it's latest incarnation is an API aggregator. What does that mean? Well, it means that in addition to pulling RSS/Atom feeds it will also run queries against web-services such as Flickr, Amazon, Technorati, Upcoming.org, and Yahoo (with more to come). It also allows you to post good links directly to your del.icio.us account (hit the settings page).
It doesn't yet sport the nifty Ajax effects of Google and Microsoft, but with prototype and Rico, it is only a matter of time. Anyway, we're trying to push the idea of an aggregator beyond just RSS headlines and weather. So, if you're interested, we'd appreciate it if you gave it try and told us what you thought.
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One wonders what the financial cost of these blunders (legal fees, cost of a recall, cost of developing a patch, etc) is compared to the theoretical cost of "lost sales" they thwarted due to piracy. In other words, it may have actually been cheaper to let a few people copy the CD for free instead of fussing with all this DRM nonsense.
We've been working on something quite similar to 'Window's Live' over at fyuze.com. It does the standard RSS/Atom thing, plus integration with Flickr, Amazon, Yahoo, Technorati, Feedster, IceRocket, Upcoming.org, del.icio.us, and Indeed. Check it out. Works great in Firefox.
Since we're on the topic of "start" pages, I thought I would mention my own project, fyuze.com, which was mentioned here on slashdot some time ago. It started out as an RSS aggregator, but in it's latest incarnation is an API aggregator. What does that mean? Well, it means that in addition to pulling RSS/Atom feeds it will also run queries against web-services such as Flickr, Amazon, Technorati, Upcoming.org, and Yahoo (with more to come). It also allows you to post good links directly to your del.icio.us account (hit the settings page).
It doesn't yet sport the nifty Ajax effects of Google and Microsoft, but with prototype and Rico, it is only a matter of time. Anyway, we're trying to push the idea of an aggregator beyond just RSS headlines and weather. So, if you're interested, we'd appreciate it if you gave it try and told us what you thought.