Interesting new book-in-progress by Siva Vaidhyanathan with the subtitle "How one company is disrupting culture, commerce, and community - and why we should worry."This reminds me of Cory Doctorow's excellent piece called "Scroogled" which supposes what would happen if (when?) Google goes evil. Fun stuff to ponder as I surf through my GMail and Google Reader and GCal and Google Notebook and Google Desktop and... well... you get ...
Scoble just posted the following... Dave Winer just showed me an email that he’s involved in that shows that Google turned back on Google Checkout so that Ze Frank can take donations sell little duckies through Google’s service again. Tomorrow's "The Show" should be interesting if Ze addresses all of this!
You know by now that I'm a self-professed "sports racer" and loyal devotee to the cult of the Ze. A few days ago, he unveiled "GimmeSomeCandy" which allows users to sponsor the show in micro-formats up to $50. The promotion seemed to be quite successful and was attracting lots of attention from the likes of Scoble and Jedi Master Brian Clark. Clark summarizes the program ...
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