Great creative work

I just love this!

Google as content provider

Google just entered a new era. Google News now launching whole articles of news content.  It is actually the news providers who forced Google to do this by making them pay for content instead of appreciating the links from Google. Instead of driving traffic it now steals traffic, because if all content is collected on google why go further on to the specific site? Why place ads on the site then? Now content - and thereby the ad spend  is collected on the must powerful aggregator the world have ever seen. I think the news providers just forced Google to be their biggest enemy! 

Guardian writes..

“Publishers: Be careful what you wish for. Journalistic organisations
and news agencies have complained that Google has benefited from their
headlines (while I argue it is they who have benefited from Google’s
links). So the Press Association, the Associated Press, Canadian Press,
and Agence France-Presse just forced the search engine to license their
content. Now, rather than linking to the wire services’ clients for
their articles, Google News is displaying the agency reports in full on
its site.

My new ipod touch…

My boyfriend and me just placed an order on two new ipod touchs. In our local Humac shop we are now number 14 and 15 on the waiting list. I still have some concerns, but after hearing that it probably will be open for third party software development  I realised that my concerns mainly were located in software - not in the hardware, so one way or the other it will fullfill my wildest gadget dreams.

I will write a full detailed review here as soon as it arrives