Linked List: February 7, 2006

Tuesday, 7 February 2006

Internet Lions Turn Paper Tiger in China ★

Tom Zeller Jr.:

Let’s play “What if?”

What if the Chinese authorities didn’t simply force Google to exclude sites like hrw.org (the Human Rights Watch Web site) and lesbian.com from the Chinese version of its search engine results, or insist that Yahoo hop to whenever the government fancied the identity of one of its e-mail users, as the authorities have done?

What if they also stipulated that the chief executive of any Internet company doing business in China had to have “Mao Zedong — Luv U 4 Eva” tattooed across his back? Would the companies leave China?

Google Imposes a Ban on BMW Web Site ★

BMW tried playing games with visitors coming to bmw.de via Google; Google de-lists the site in response.

Gmail Now Offers Web-Based Chat ★

Ties into Google’s Jabber-based chat service, allowing you to use it without a standalone IM client.

Apple Introduces 1GB iPod Nano, Drops Shuffle Price ★

New 1 GB Nano: $149; 512 MB and 1 GB Shuffles now $69 and $99.

TheCodingMonkeys State of the Union ★

Martin Pittenauer, on the revenue growth of SubEthaEdit:

As you can see the first bunch of months are really low on sales. And trust me, when I say low, I mean “not enough to pay for the server”, not “not enough to buy a red Lotus Elise”.

(Via Brent Simmons.)