Monday, August 08, 2005

Microsoft flirts with content again:
"Not having learned the lessons from Slate and MSNBC, Microsoft is once again flirting with content. This time, by launching a blog media network. Essentially what it is doing is taking a page from Jason and Nick’s playbook, and copying it. Unfortunately, at first blush, this looks like a copy made by Xerox machine circa 1975. MSN Fliters as set-up are devoid of personality, color and even upto the minute information. In other words, they are essentially everything a blog should not be."

(Via Om Malik's Broadband Blog.)

Mozilla and hypocrisy

Right, but what about the experiences that Mozilla chooses to default for users like switching to  Yahoo and making that the default upon ...