Summary: Special episode discussing Novell's sale and Microsoft's patent play, including a discussion about hardware products
THIS is the show where, without preparation, the three of us discuss Novell's sale. Tim's site, OpenBytes, has already published some show notes. We've had some audio issues throughout the show, so pardon occasional background noises/echo.
Many sites will go offline and many social control networks will shut down once they realise or even openly admit they spend money and time gardening a bunch of bots and slop
it would rightly seem like the era of centralised "social" sites (they're not social, they're about controlling the users) is ending, not overnight but gradually
The next few years will be interesting because if Microsoft lays off tens of thousands of workers each year, there won't be much left except mountains of debt and dying brands
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