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September 26, 2006
Facebook this morning abondoned its exclusivity hallmark and opened its doors to all comers. Facebook's most attentive watcher, Fred Stutzman, believes the move marks the end of the social network's relevance: "It depresses me to think that Facebook is simply building Classmates.com 2.0. However, I just don't see how else I can look at this ... Sure, a couple million people might sign on to check the service out, but are these people actually going to become first-class users? Of course not. Is Facebook simply looking for a bump in their userbase to sweeten the deal for Yahoo?"
With computers sucking up an ever larger portion of the world's energy output, two Google engineers will today push the computer industry to reengineer power supplies to improve their efficiency, reports John Markoff. The electric power industry has a similar initiative ongoing.
Mohit Chhabra finds the link between information technology, the Winchester Mystery House, and Indian businesses.
Posted by nick at September 26, 2006 05:18 AM