When does $59 equal free?
I’m in the process of looking into software programs that manage internet cafes. Its kind of interesting because of the huge variety of features, I ran across one that blew my mind away - just not in a good way! Here is the text that I couldn’t believe:
Free Cyber Cafe Software : Cafezee Cyber Cafe Software is priced at US $59.00, closest to being free.
It’s free but its not? What’s that all about? When I ran across that line I decided this program wasn’t for me, I didn’t even look at the features even though its free, well “closest to being free.”
AP going to make the same mistake as AFP?
I often wonder if I could have worked on my writing style and made it in Journalism. It’s still a passion of mine but I just don’t have the skills, although I am working on a project that may bring me back in touch with this hobby.
Anyway, I have been watching the whole Google News vs. Agence France-Press (AFP) “fight,” basically AFP sued Google for linking to sites that carried their articles. It pissed off all of the customers of AFP because Google News is a good way to be visible. Now the Associated Press has taken notice that Google hid like a scared puppy, and suggested that Google News buys a license for AP content. If Google does end up buying the license they should just send anyone interested in an AP story to their own news page with ads and such. They have the demand, they would have the license, they might as well have the profits. That should really piss off AP’s other customers.
Google Watching?
I’m often told that I am still too geeky but atleast I didn’t realize that google raised their logo…
I wonder what their reasoning was? Maybe it was a human error? Maybe its making way for their new portal? Maybe its a sign that google is only going to spider the top of everyone’s web pages now? Maybe they are about to add google adsense to the main page? I’m going crazy with speculation!!!!
No Google hat for me…
I received an email back from google in regards to the bug I discovered (see Maybe They’ll Send me a Google Hat!), seems like they are aware of the situation and working on it:
Thank you for your note. We’re aware of this problem, and our engineers are currently investigating. We hope to have this fixed soon. We appreciate your patience, and thanks for taking the time to write.Regards,
The Google Team
To be honest I am surprised it takes so long to fix a simple issue as removing a subdomain. Unless there is something I’m missing I think Google has lost its laid back approach and is caught up in the red tape.