A lot of people are questioning digg.com’s usability. I am a digg user, i have an user name, i have the feed in my rss reader, but i’m not contributing.
A lot of people just scroll over the news and that’s it. I R digg user! I contribute! I digg stories.
And looking at what digg.com is pushing to it’s front page… just make a “top 10 whatever” post and you have 50% chances to make it. A lot of old clips. I remember a Bill Maher short clip a few weeks ago. It was part of a show called “I’ms Swiss”, aired on HBO in february. Politics, weird and not funny news…

Yahoo and The Register lately spread the rumor that a better or different Firefox was out. The “incredible” software had even a website.

Of course, it is a hoax.
The premises….
When clicking the link to download MS Firefox, Internet Explorer download link popped up.
The domain contact person’s info was protected at the registrar. Microsoft wouldn’t hide. Right?

But this is all old news…

Hey, MySpace, we’re Universal, do you have a contract with us? No? YouTube has. We shall sue you if you don’t give us money!

A simple story. Universal does their part of the deal by protecting YouTube and trying to break it’s competitors. And after the news that MySpace has more video views than YouTube, the move was expected.

Rupert, you shouldn’t have said MySpace is worth 6 billion!

You may have noticed the news face and the new adress.
We have moved to a .org domain and we are trying to do a better job from now on.

There have been some disturbing news lately about PlayStation.
People getting robbed or shot while waiting in line to buy one.
But i guess it’s not bad marketing for PlayStation afterall. People are still in the long lines, awaiting. The new Nintendo motto should be:

PlayStation! Worth getting shot over one!

While The Inquirer reports that 10 people were sending almost 80% of the world spam, GMail’s filters seem to be weakened. I got today almost 30 spam messages, when on a regular day i used to get as much as 5 or 6. Are they hiding better or are we weaker?

One of my friends asked me to check his computer for some weird facts. I did and i noticed a few unwanted processes. I went to sysinternals.com to download ProcessExplorer, but i noticed i got redirected to http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/default.mspx, the new place for Sysinternals great utilities.

For those of you who don’t know, Sysinternals was bought by Microsoft some months ago.
I saved all those great freeware proggies, fearing they will be removed to make room for Microsoft ones. This did not happen. Yet.

Rupert Murdoch recently said that myspace.com is worth not 6 billion dollars. A lot more that the buying price, some months ago. A lot of money, if you ask me.
MySpace is nice. A lot of traffic, a lot of people. But not really that good of a site. Lots of sex scandals, lots of pervers, lots of pr0n, lots of copyrighted work. The only good thing that myspace did, after being bought, was to offer users an embed player. Why go to YouTube to upload videos when you can do that here? they said. Aside that, nothing.
I have a gloom feeling about all these bubbles, i fear that some day they will crash.