Interesting article by Charlie Demerjian about the shift in the IT industry away from Microsoft and toward Open Source: The IT industry is shifting away from Microsoft

Every so often, there is a big shift in an industry. The shifts are not usually visible until long after they've happened, making you look back and say: "Oh yeah, things were different back then".

Interesting analysis about what is making the market start to shift away from Microsoft and its products.

Bill Thompson at BBC World Service asks the question Is Google good for you?

He talks about how Google has become more commercial, and claims that we are all suffering because of it. He actually goes as far as suggesting that search is now so important that it should be regulated, just like telecom and broadcasters are in the UK.

While I will admit I don't mind regulation of several areas, and that I am missing the regulation of power companies that we enjoyed in Norway until last year, I don't think the solution in this case is regulation.

As Google has so skillfully showed us, emerging from nothing only a few years ago, if a service is good enough it will attract users.

Google has showed respect for its users by avoiding paid placement in its search engine. Unlike Overture and Yahoo - its largest competitors today.

The way to get Google off of its "throne" as the number one search engine is not to regulate, but for someone to come up with a search engine as user friendly and powerful as Google or preferably a lot better. Until that happens Google will remain the prominent search engine on the web.

BTW: Bill is promising to diversify his searches in the year to come. Let me suggest taking a look at Alltheweb.com, which in my humble opinion is one of Googles most worthy competitors today.

[Via JD on MX]

Please tell me that this is just a joke: PABAAH!.

PABAAH stands for "Patriotic Americans Boycotting Anti-American Hollywood". From what I have seen (Daily Show) and read (on the PABAAH site). I think the whole movement should be called "Supporting Bush and Mccarthyism against critiques"

Calling people that happen to disagree with W. Bush communists and attacking them like PABAAH does can't be something to be proud of, at least not if you believe in democracy.

BTW: I actually thought the american democracy had come along to the point that "communist" wasn't a swearword. But I guess I was wrong.

If this is anything like what the PS3 will look like, then sign me up for one right now!

The picture is a concept picture that has been floating around on the web lately.

More information about what we might expect from the PS3 has been revealed as well, from the VP of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. It appears we should expect motion detection and facial recognition technology to be a part of the PS3, which in turn should make for a lot of interesting applications, interfaces and last but not least - cooler games.