links for 2006-02-16

Sto­ry of the day: Google buys Mea­sure Map, and employs Jeff Veen in the process. A loss for Adap­tive Path, but it does give Google some much need­ed weight in their secret war on Yahoo!

“it’s hard to build a com­mu­ni­ty around crap­py, mun­dane, and mediocre crap no mat­ter how hard you try.”

Camino has gone 1.0. I’ve used it for a while as my pri­ma­ry brows­er, and like it a lot. How­ev­er, I keep com­ing back to Fire­fox for it’s great exten­sions. Plus: half of the time I’m on a PC — it’s nice to at least browse the same way on both platforms.

“It appears that there is some debate about the clas­si­fi­ca­tion of this appli­ca­tion, and as it does require user acti­va­tion, it appears to fall into the Tro­jan clas­si­fi­ca­tion, rather than self-pro­pogat­ing through any par­tic­u­lar vul­ner­a­bil­i­ty in OS X.”