No, Yahoo! isn't killing Del.icio.us

  The Long View (Computerworld)

Opinion: over-eager bloggers added 2+2 and made 5; but Yahoo management performing piss-poorly. Delicious's stay of execution good to hear: without neglectful, adoptive parenting, it could shine once more.
24 hours ago, users of the Del.icio.us social bookmarking-cum-tagging service were stunned to hear that it would close. Owner Yahoo had included it in a list of services it planned to "sunset." But apparently, that was wrong. Read on to discover more, in The Long View...

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In snub to WikiLeaks, Zuckerberg wins TIME Person of Year 2010

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Richi's Rant: TIME Person of the Year 2010 should be WikiLeaks' Julian Assange. Don't hold an election if you're going to fake the result, foolish magazine.
It's mid-December, which means it's TIME Magazine's Person of the Year time again. A few days ago, we learned that the public had overwhelmingly voted for Wikileaks honcho Julian Assange for the win. Depressingly, TIME's taken the safe option, opting for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, instead. Let's avoid the conspiracy theories, but dissect the choice, in The Long View...

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Why not use same password everywhere? Gawker shows us.

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Gawker Media hack causes my friends to receive scammy begging email "from" me. Moral: don't forget about old email accounts when managing password risk.
The recent hack of Gawker Media's user database had a few people tsk-tsk'ing at that publication's security skills. Or lack of them. But that's just a pile of low-value blog comment accounts -- is there a greater worry we're missing? Are high-value enterprise accounts also at risk as a result? Here's a personal story of being hacked as a direct result of the Gawker compromise, in The Long View...

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Google Message Continuity: Awesome idea, boring name

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Google Message Continuity is the latest Google service to tempt Microsoft Exchange shops into looking at Google Apps. Basically, it helps protect Exchange shops from downtime. Why would Google do that? Surely it wants people to experience Exchange pain? Let's look into it, in The Long View...

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What's the point of Google Chrome OS?

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Google Chrome OS. So you understand what Chrome is: it's Google's Web browser, but why have an eponymous operating system? Isn't that a bit obfuscatory? Let's clear up the confusion and illuminate Google's strategy.
After all the noise over Google's Chrome OS announcement yesterday, I find people scratching their heads. They can't see the point of what Google's doing. They especially can't see the point for enterprise IT. Let's try and remedy that, in The Long View...

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