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The irony of talking about annoying software ...

ZDNet in the UK has an amusing article about some of the most annoying pieces of software we might come across in our PC/Mac/whatever adventures.

What's really amusing about it is that it's on a site where they split an article over 11 pages to maximise pain with the garish ads, and you have to register to comment ... you want to talk about annoying?

links for 2008-05-11

• Delocator
  Let's de-Starbucks Australia ...
  (tags: via:sighmon coffee activism cafe small help save them)

links for 2008-05-06

• Stilgherrian · Oh you poor, dear record companies…
  "There is no digital music battle or piracy war. That is a figment of your imagination, and, every time you preach our digital crimes to us, we ‘tune out’ .... Your declining profits are the symptom of a business model that is fast becoming irrelevant
  (tags: drm riaa music disintermediation)

links for 2008-05-02

• Why social software won’t dethrone the incumbents | Irregular Enterprise | ZDNet.com
  social software vs the enterprise ... as I said elsewhere the issue isn't with the big vendors - it's crusty command-and-control hierarchies that kill social software in the enterprise
  (tags: socialsoftware enterprise management)
• Collaboration and Content Strategies Blog: Why GMail is Disruptive
  It's the cost, stupid ... read the comment too - about Google's very efficient infrastructure
  (tags: via:hortovanyi exchange gmail disruption)
• Architecture astronauts take over - Joel on Software
  Joel Spolsky gives MS Live Mesh a huge serve ... is Ray Ozzie a one-trick (and lame one at that) pony?
  (tags: architecture google innovation microsoft joelonsoftware)

links for 2008-05-01

• EXCLUSIVE: CODA2go on force.com | Irregular Enterprise | ZDNet.com
  There's a market happening .... software provisioning on a common platform ...
  (tags: saas paas provisioning multitenant)