Agreed that N900 is excellent depending on what you want. I have used many PIMs, and allow me to give you this golden advice: FUNAMBOL. My current is N900, Ubuntu desktop/laptop, and then a speckling of many other systems. I use a cloud, BUT it's easy enough to setup your own funambol server and synchronize to that. Before the N900, I easily synced to several win mobile PDAs using funambol as well. If you want details on setup, feel free to pm. tarek : )

You were actually employing a tiered "single sign-on" strategy without any of the convenience of SSO. For the vast majority of sites, the site being compromised is inconsequential. e.g., So What if my local newspaper site login was breached?

It makes an awful lot of sense to have, say, 3 OpenIDs. One where you just could care less; used in the majority of sites (say, 70%). One where you'd rather not lose them (say 20% like your Amazon, eBay, iTunes), and one used for the last 10% that you guard zealously like your bank, email or whatever.

I don't get the difference between this person and all the people of old whose many personal and mundane letters litter collections everywhere and make historical accounts more rich and precise. I bet he can track the births and deaths of countless relationships through those emails, which is itself of tremendous worth.

In the short term, wasn't an 18 month project that ran way over budget and over time more profitable than one that would have been on time and on spec?

I think being a bit delayed can be quite positive for your project. Sure, no first mover advantage. But at least now you can see ahead of time what works and what might not and adjust accordingly.

I couldn't figure out until I RTFA if this was actually a joke or for real.. The Onion called it first: Proposed (Classified) Bill Will Defend Against Flesh-eating (Classified)

For those who don't want to look it up, here's from wikipedia: Poe's law (poetry) — There is a maximum desirable length for poems: "The unit of poetry must be fixed by the reader's capacity of attention, and ... the limits of a poem must accord with the limits of a single movement of intellectual apprehension and emotional exaltation," named for Edgar Allan Poe.[3][4] See "The Philosophy of Composition". tarek : )