December 2002

Bad service in the US too

John Dowdell has experienced the spreading bad service of a big shop when doing his Mac shopping at CompUSA. He writes that he so far has visited the store twice – in total spending 1 hour and 15 minutes to get the wrong RAM for his iBook. These kind of shopping experiences are becoming all to common. And at shops like CompUSA (In Norway, simular shops could be Elkøp, Lefdal, Spaceworld and a bounch of other big chains). The problem is high demand, not enough people to help the customers,

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Tim O’Reilly about copyright and new technology

Anyone interested in copyright vs new uses of technology should read Tim’s Piracy is Progressive Taxation, and Other Thoughts on the Evolution of Online Distribution, it really shifts the point of view from the big media corporations somewhat paranoid view of digital content, to a more down to earth and possible way of using the new digital opportunities. One thing to remember, before reading Tim’s story, is that historically all new technology has been looked upon with great paranoia and promise of doom from the likes of RIAA and MPAA.

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Google viewer

A cool new way to watch search results are shown with the Google Viewer, fresh out of the Google labs. I am ever amazed how fresh and clued this company is :-) Must be perfect for people that just want to browse through search results, although using it on my 800×600 laptop wasn’t 100% perfect.

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