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[ Alec Saunders .LOG -- An explosive mix of VoIP, Technology, Wine, and Politics] It’s to be integrated with the Windows Live offering, but much to Om Malik’s relief, they won’t be abandoning the Mac client.  They’ve waived the $99/year service fee, as well. 

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Geek News Central Revealing Links & Useful Technical Informationhttp://www.geeknewscentral.com  Geek News Central Revealing Links & Useful Technical Information: Show Links: Live.com www.clonethegoogleapi.com PhotoCasting Sleazy Sony, Cover up is a Crime! Warcraft Hack! (via Cosmos)

GeekFun: Microsoft just acquired Foldershare, which provides a service that helps you keep folders in sync between multiple machines on a LAN and across the Internet. I’ve used Foldershare to share files with my brother, but my main use has been to keep files on my laptop automatically backed up onto my desktop machine. (via Cosmos)

The Unofficial Microsoft Weblog - microsoft.weblogsinc.com The Unofficial Microsoft Weblog - microsoft.weblogsinc.com: someone is liberally dispensing clueless pills to executives at Sony who seem bound and determined to turn a horrible situation into a consumer apocalypse by making a purported fix available for the DRM root kit spyware they’ve installed on user’s systems that actually makes matters no better and possibly worse. (via Cosmos)

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209.34.241.67http://209.34.241.67 [209.34.241.67] Alex Barnett blog : Web 2.0: "Our goal in making these changes," explained CEO Steve Ballmer in an email to staff, "is to enable Microsoft to achieve greater agility in .executing our software-based services strategy." It remains to be seen eactly how far and fast Microsoft will go down the services route - and whether it can figure out a services business model that will deliver the kind of rich profits its packaged software has long provided - but the dramatic reorganization shows that it recognizes the old model is dying."

Theludwigs.com[Theludwigs.com] A Little Ludwig Goes A Long Way: PC Software Archives: I don't think end users will ever put keywords/classifications on all their output -- but I do think a shared public ontology that can advise free text searching is pretty useful. When I search for "theatrical lighting control", i'd love it if the search engines could benefit from the collective wisdom of the net and realize that "dmx" and "dmx-512" might be useful synonyms for my search, for instance.

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