Apple is "removing any negative remarks posted in their discussion forums directed towards their new $100 a year .Mac subscription service, which will effectively wipe out at least a million email addresses," widk reports. Will this make more people switch than stoned chicks already do?
How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic Web - "a fable about the future, the semantic web, google, love, death, failure, and robots. By Paul Ford." Via leuschke.org. Also check the annotated list of Semantic Web links.
"Venture capitalists are offering the companies they bankroll increasingly hard-knuckled deals that leave little wealth for a start-up's managers or original backers. Private companies are facing the most onerous terms from venture capitalists that we have seen in 20 years." People are playing hardball, N.Y. Times says.
More news on the Brave New World of DRM: Movie Studios Press Congress in Digital Copyright Dispute, N.Y. Times reports.
"The publisher of the Web site whose name is a vulgarism for "failed company" plans to spin off part of that site into a new unit. Drawing from a deep well of material sent by fans of corporate comeuppance, Philip J. Kaplan said he would roll out a new site, InternalMemos.com, this morning." N.Y. Times story via scripting.com. However, "unlimited access to all memos, for an entire month, is just $45" at internalmemos.com, while the mothership remains free.
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