Comments on: Press Hits: Newsweek, Gizmag http://blog.voo2do.com/2006/02/03/press-hits-newsweek-gizmag/ news and tips for users of <a href="http://voo2do.com/">voo2do.com</a> : web-based task tracking Sat, 08 May 2010 11:45:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Shimon http://blog.voo2do.com/2006/02/03/press-hits-newsweek-gizmag/#comment-161 Shimon Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:38:48 +0000 http://blog.voo2do.com/2006/02/03/press-hits-newsweek-gizmag/#comment-161 Evan, Plagiarism? Don't you mean "hard hitting investigative journalism"? I find it hard to be anything but cynical about these sorts of things anymore... Evan,

Plagiarism? Don’t you mean “hard hitting investigative journalism”? I find it hard to be anything but cynical about these sorts of things anymore…

]]> By: Evan Miller http://blog.voo2do.com/2006/02/03/press-hits-newsweek-gizmag/#comment-159 Evan Miller Tue, 07 Feb 2006 07:54:46 +0000 http://blog.voo2do.com/2006/02/03/press-hits-newsweek-gizmag/#comment-159 I think you just turned up a bit of plagiarism. On Jan. 30, Newsweek wrote: <blockquote> Ajax has become the driving force behind new Web-based services such as Writely, a free word-processing program; NumSum, a spreadsheet site, and Voo2do, a site that does scheduling and calendar tasks. These Ajax-driven sites are causing a rethinking of the Web's relationship to PCs. Indeed, Ajax could make many PC-based software applications obsolete, and in the process turn much of the computer industry on its head. </blockquote> Compare that to what Gizmag published Feb. 1: <blockquote> Ajax has become the driving force behind some exciting new free web-based applications such as the Writely word-processor, NumSum spreadsheet and our favourite, Voo2do, a site that "offers advanced task and priority management for busy, ambitious individuals". Ajax threatens the very existence of PC-based software applications, and might even reinvent the entire software and internet industries, not to mention offering myriad new business possibilities. </blockquote> I'll bet you dollars to donuts that Newsweek International is in the browser history over at Gizmag... I think you just turned up a bit of plagiarism. On Jan. 30, Newsweek wrote:

Ajax has become the driving force behind new Web-based services such as Writely, a free word-processing program; NumSum, a spreadsheet site, and Voo2do, a site that does scheduling and calendar tasks. These Ajax-driven sites are causing a rethinking of the Web’s relationship to PCs. Indeed, Ajax could make many PC-based software applications obsolete, and in the process turn much of the computer industry on its head.

Compare that to what Gizmag published Feb. 1:

Ajax has become the driving force behind some exciting new free web-based applications such as the Writely word-processor, NumSum spreadsheet and our favourite, Voo2do, a site that “offers advanced task and priority management for busy, ambitious individuals”. Ajax threatens the very existence of PC-based software applications, and might even reinvent the entire software and internet industries, not to mention offering myriad new business possibilities.

I’ll bet you dollars to donuts that Newsweek International is in the browser history over at Gizmag…

]]> By: Bazkaz http://blog.voo2do.com/2006/02/03/press-hits-newsweek-gizmag/#comment-158 Bazkaz Mon, 06 Feb 2006 21:54:43 +0000 http://blog.voo2do.com/2006/02/03/press-hits-newsweek-gizmag/#comment-158 I found you through Gizmag. Fantastic service. Thanks. I found you through Gizmag. Fantastic service. Thanks.

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