News to know: Facebook growing pains; Office wars; Bad IT weekend
Notable headlines:
David Morgenstern: Better living without MS Office. Garett Rogers: Google kicks Microsoft where it hurts, again. Google Operating System: Google Pack Adds StarOffice. CNET iLife'08 review.
ABC News: Glitch Strands Thousands of Intl. Passengers at LAX. Michael Krigsman: IT failure in action: LAX. Big iron and the failure of Enterprise 2.0. Failure 2.0. More Enterprise 2.0 bad news: Ning is down.
Techmeme: Facebook source code leaked. Facebook Secrets: Facebook home page code.
Russell Shaw: Device claims to interrupt all cell within 40 foot radius of YOU.
Photos (right): Top 10 reviews of the week. Dana Blankenhorn: Can mySQL take it back? Computerworld: Changes at MySQL draw fire from community.
Paul Murphy: Linux is Unix.
Dennis Howlett: Will IBM compete with Facebook/Web 2.0? Second Life plus Twitter for enterprise? The social network penny drops at Oracle. Newsweek: Facebook grows up.
NYT: NBC Making a Clean Start in a House of Mixed Media.
Mary Jo Foley: A (Microsoft) Code Name a Day: Avalanche.
BBC: UN's Web site breached.
Matthew Miller: 15 minutes of hands-on time with the Palm Foleo, still not quite sold on it yet. SlingPlayer for S60 going into private beta, signup if interested. Dan Farber: Another nail in SCO's Linux lawsuit coffin. Roland Piquepaille: Interactive 3D-environments based on MPEG-4.
In electric car stakes, it's Miles to go.
Feds consider lowering passenger data requirements.
Photos: Fight and flight. Paula Rooney: Xen vs. KVM: round 1 bell to ring soon.
eWeek: Social Bookmarking Apps Provide a New Knowledge Management Platform.
Dana Blankenhorn: Today's Debate: Docs in a box. Larry Dignan: DRM: The hearse is right on schedule. Why would I pay Google for extra storage?
David Berlind: Besieged by HP's derogations, laser printer emissions whistleblower fights back.