I gave up on sending in rebates a long time ago. I used to send in a lot of them and I think Memorex was the only company that ever sent me my money (after about a year). Well, supposedly the FTC has cracked down a bit and things are better, but someone has come up with a way to play the system to maximize the number of customers that don’t succeed in getting their rebate.
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Well, I went to the trouble of tweaking the graphic, so I’ll keep it there, but “GooTube” sounds like it caters to a particular gendre of videos… Mashable! has a good summary of the rumors about Google buying YouTube. Personally I can’t see why they would do it. Going in so many directions seems to be stretching Google pretty thin, plus there seem to be a lot of people out there for whom Google has replaced Microsoft as their most hated evil empire. (Or maybe all the comments posted to every story about Google are Yahoos that are still upset that they can’t figure out how they lost so much market share so quickly.) Sucking up another popular service would just make them evil to that many more people.
Yahoo has offered about $900 million for Facebook after the previous offer of $800 million was rejected. All these amounts seem arbitraty when it was only a few months back that Facebook said they were looking for $2 billion. I’d be interested in what kind of vistors per month to dollars conversion rate Yahoo gets out of it’s current properties. I’d imagine Flickr would be a good one to compare against, in as much as it’s got a “social” element to it and it was very popular before they bought it. Are they solely in a competition with Microsoft and Google for market share or is there a real bottom line plan to this and other aquisitions?
Princeton computer scientists said they created demonstration vote-stealing software that can be installed within a minute on a common electronic voting machine. The software can fraudulently change vote counts without being detected.
When I’ve been reading about voting machines, and they talk about a “paper record” as a backup, I figured it printed a tape as the people voted and had a little window so they could see the tape and confirm the correct vote was recorded for them. Printing a summary at the end is just a joke (a bad one).
