In the genuinely useful software dept., here is a little app written in C# (source included!) that will download an entire google web album. Great for grabbing copies of all of your friends photos.
Facebook, Twitter, iOS, SMS, etc. while beautiful and elegant, forget at their peril that there was a time when AOL, Compuserve, WAP, and other walled gardens were beautiful and elegant too.
Last week, Skype took heat for firing three executives just weeks before the companys $8.5 billion acquisition by Microsoft (MSFT) is expected to close. That was bad, albeit more optical than unethical. What we learned today, however, might have crossed that line.
Yee Lee, a former Skype employee, charged the company and ...
> This is outrageous. I can't believe that this type of behavior pays off. Certainly recollection of this story would make me very wary dealing with Silver Lake.