Larry Dignan posted about the dificulty (but not impossibility) to calculate the ROI of information security costs.
There may be costs the ROI is even harder to calculate (or is it easier?).

David Berlinds asks why Novell paid Microsoft $40 Mio. Here is the answer.

Are we in the eve of the age of the infringement wars? Does the social web (Web 2.0 or whatever it's called) survive it? See Donna Bogatin and Steve O'Hear.

Microsoft has worked hard to get the bad guy.
Now they can sue Linux and no one is really upset (see David Berlind and Adrian Kingsley-Hughes).

The pace YouTube has adopted the rules is impressing (see TechCrunch).

The Zune gets a lot of controversal press. See e.g. Russel Shaw or Larry Dignan.

See also a funny report about the installation Odyssey at Engadget.

Donna Bogatin is again complaining about Gmails privacy.

The privacy chapter in Googles GMail Terms of Use is quite complicated (see Donna Bogatin).
It could be much easier.

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Nicholas Carr writes about the mainstream media entering the Top 100 (according to the State of the Blogosphere from David Sifry).

Maybe the Blogosphere is like the Dark Matter. It's hard to see it. But it's there and it determines the universe.

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The openess of Microsoft gives us a lot of freedom to get rid of all the old stuff we bought from them (see George Ou). But maybe it needs a more euphemistic wording: ZOFA

The Microsoft-Novell-Deal got a huge response in the blogosphere.
At least 9 bloggers on ZDNet posted about this story: Mary Jo Foley, Ryan Stewart, Dana Gardner, Josh Greenbaum, Mary Jo Foley again, Ed Burnette, Marc Wagner, Mitch Ratcliffe, Paul Murphy, John Carroll (and I don't think this list is comprehensive).

Nobody knows whether this deal is good or bad for one of them or both.

Time will tell.

(Addendum, 2006-11-08: For more details see a new post from Mary Jo Foley).

Jonathan Schwartz was on the Oracle OpenWorld Conference (see his blog) and also talked about open source Java (see InfoWorld). Maybe it will be there on Christmas.

(This is the third epsisode of the Jonathan-Schwartz-Series. See also The Schwartzbox and The FreakEO).

News in the KinderStart.com-case (see Techdirt).

This site may be not worth for a high ranking (or any ranking, frankly I don't know this site).
But I think it's in any case not good that one company has the power to throw another company nearly out of business without any need for explanation.

Or do we just have to trust Google because it's the Good and not the Evil?

(See also The Trial on Wikipedia)

Microsoft has implemented its great Genuine Advantage system in the Office suite. It's called Office Genuine Advantage (OGA) (see PC World or ZDNet). But they should start a campaign to show the users all the huge advantages it brings to them.

Ray Ozzie is quite skeptical about web office applications (see Dan Farber).

After paying people money to rename their IM names as brands (see Techdirt) the marketing folks should lift this great idea to the next step.

 

George Bush is a 2.0-geek (see Bush says he uses “the Google.”) and Nicholas Carr thinks umpteenth about wikipedia and the wisdom of the crowds.

Until recent I thought Web 2.0 follows some principles (more or less) but I didn't know that it has an ethic (see Lawrence Lessig and a great comment from Nicholas Carr).