Round up of this week’s conversations – week 8 2010
Last week I mentioned that Google is replacing Microsoft as the next evil company. Well, there’s more Google bashing this week. The EU is opening an antitrust investigation into Google. And apparently the complaints are filed by companies related to Microsoft. It seems Microsoft is not giving up it’s current evil company title for free. In Italy three Google executives are convicted over a Google video showing a handicapped teenager being bullied by some students. The executives are guilty of privacy violation. It seems to me that this could open the gates for an infinite number of charges.
On March 1st, Google will stop its support for Internet Explorer 6, followed by Youtube on March 13th. I know a lot of developers who are desperately waiting for the end of the browser from hell. IE6 is hated by developers because it takes all kinds of CSS and scripting hacks to make it work. People who can’t wait for its death, can already bury IE6 at http://ie6funeral.com/
And finally a not so remarkable evolution. At the Dutch interactive Spin Awards a huge shift in popular categories has happened according to a post on dutchcowboys.nl. The old time popular “Best website” is passed by “Best online campaign”, “Best content” and “Best use of media”. This shows that websites are becoming less important in the digital ecosystem. According to this interesting post by Paul Gillin, we are evolving to a site-less web, where information no longer needs a homepage to reach an audience.
Links
http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/26/microsoft-google-antitrust/
http://thenextweb.com/eu/2010/02/24/eu-probe-google-complaints-internet-companies/
http://www.dutchcowboys.nl/events/19087
http://gillin.com/blog/2010/02/welcome-to-the-site-less-web/
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