A Pharmaceutical Company Buys Out Your Drug Dealer
Hey everyone,
You have to admit it – for most social people, Facebook is more a habit than a hobby. We’re so accustomed now to logging in, a few times a day, checking photos, notes, groups, etc. Posting on peoples’ walls, making graffiti, and wasting time defining our relationships. Facebook has us like coffee has… well most of the working population. Some people can’t get through a few hours, let alone a day, without their coffee. Now what happens when, the thing that you kind of depend on every day, is bought out by the super mega company that kind of monopolizes all computers in the world? Hmmm! Huge potential for evil!
According to Kara at All Things Digital, Microsoft has been gauging Facebook’s interest in being taken over. 
After failing to court Yahoo!, Microsoft is a little anxious for a partner. Well, I think Microsoft-weds-Facebook would be a match made in heaven. You all know Facebook’s real goal is to control and influence large amounts of people to make profit from them. It’s like Orwell’s 1984 2.0. And who better than Microsoft, well besides Google, to help Facebook reach that goal?
Comic: Pooch Cafe by Paul Gilligan
I loved flickr until that monster, Yahoo!, gobbled it up.
For months I used AllYouCanUpload, which was a terrific service hosted Webshots. Webshots was owned by CNet — so I felt that the site was fairly secure. The AllYouCanUpload FAQ promised that the pictures would be there forever. I thought that that word didn’t leave too much room for misinterpretation.
Then American Greetings bought Webshots. Not surprisingly, they shut down the great but free service, AllYouCanUpload. So far, the pictures that I uploaded to AllYouCanUpload are still showing up on my blog.
Well, I still did not want to deal with flickr, so I paid Webshots for a year. I have no interesting in anything to do with their site, but I need it as a place to stash pictures that I will use elsewhere, such as on my blog.
Here, take a look http://howesound.wordpress.com/2008/04/15/farewell-to-comet-holmes-star-maps-april-may-2008-large-tides-may-6/
Those maps are the 200px thumbnails. For some people (such and me and my friend on Linux) if you click the thumb you will be taken to a #403 FORBIDDEN error page. If you do see that, put your cursor at the end of the url in the navigation bar and hit return. So, it is not forbidden, it is a bug.
The people at webshots say that the problem is that their site is optimized for Internet Explorer and if I want to see my pictures I should make that my default browser.
Really. (I use a Mac, but the problem is not that I cannot see the pic, it is that many people cannot… but they don’t get it.)
So, I am regretfully considering flickr… which, at least, works. Phooey. How do you avoid the monsters?