Published Sat, 2008-12-13 16:27 UTC
Foreword
Before the summer, hardly anyone I knew had Office 2007. Now, however, many have bought new laptops for the Fall semester and it's no surprise that they come preloaded with Office 2007. Combine that with the fact that my new college really likes group presentations and group papers and you get a field study of OpenOffice 3.0 vs Microsoft Office 2007.
Published Mon, 2008-11-10 16:28 UTC
Since I mentioned the profile stickers before I felt like a had to at least address those, so, here is the Aka-Aki profile stuff.
Profiles are basically like any old social platform, you enter your personal data and it goes into the magical black box. Nonetheless, their approach of not displaying real names and only using them for search results is commendable, especially in light of the competition. While it's a decent approach, it's hardly sufficient.