the blog: tag= microsoft
Contrasting bookmarking tools
- Date
- 8/21/2008 08:52:00 PM [permalink]
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- yahooza
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- Microsoft is releasing a new social bookmarking tool to the masses pretty soon. It looks a bit lacking.
Let's contrast some of the more popular bookmarking tools by video and see why Microsoft is where they are within the interwebs community.
del.icio.us 2.0 (aka delicious.com)
Yahoo! Better Bookmarks (launched in Oct 2006)
Microsoft's New Social Bookmarking ToolLabels: del.icio.us, microsoft, socialsearch, yahoo, ybookmarks
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Beyond the scenes
- Date
- 7/09/2008 10:23:00 AM [permalink]
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- yahooza
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- http://www.techuser.net/microsoft-yahoo.html
So, from what I've gathered from the in-depth piece above is that Microsoft wants Yahoo! for patent-related reasons, namely '361 patent, intellectual property from the Overture acquisition. Otherwise, like I've said before, an acquisition or merger makes zero sense.
Basically, M$ wants to own the patent to 1) avoid paying royalties to Y! for its paid search product—M$ Ad Center—and 2) frack w/ Google who, years ago, had "settled" w/ Yahoo! on licensing such patent—probably paying a negligible amount.
No wonder Google has great interest in a free, independent Y! and why M$ wants to Y!'s search "assets".
Intra-corporate fiefdom politicking at its best =) - Comments
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Ask Genivieve how to search
- Date
- 3/05/2008 11:23:00 AM [permalink]
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- yahooza
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- With Ask.com cutting jobs and realigning its strategy, it seems the "little search engine that could" has thrown in the towel, transforming and re-branding itself into a women's site (ivillage.com?), chock full of Rachel Ray and Tyra Banks =P Very similar to the female-targeted shows on daytime television ....
Hmm, it seems as if Yahoo! has already beat y'all there w/ Food, OMG, Health, etc. I reckon becoming a media company will be challenging for the Ask.com team. Good luck, fellas.
The Ask.com transformation also confirms that the search engine battle is over. Google and Yahoo! are the only real winners, brands accepted and embraced by consumers as trustworthy and reliable. And that is also why Microsoft wants Yahoo! sooooo bad; they can't gain ground via traditional means and the only way in is to pay, and pay big.
The only way to beat Google and search is to invent a better means to find, traverse the wrangled and unstructured interwebs. Right now, there's no better way, because of its simplicity—think 'enter a keyword'.
Buh-bye. - Comments
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The courtship
- Date
- 3/04/2008 10:17:00 AM [permalink]
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- yahooza
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- The whole M$ - Y! takeover bid kinda reminds me of a tragic teenage romance where the overzealous star-quarterback boy desperately does whatever he can to get into the prudish girl's panties.
First, the money and flowers. When the offer is refuted, he shows his big guns and unveils the "power" shtick (no pun intended). I don't think many of these relationships actually work out.
Ahh, young romance .... gotta love it. - Comments
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the Y! Borg is FUBAR
- Date
- 2/03/2008 09:02:00 PM [permalink]
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- yahooza
- Entry
- I reckon it's m' turn to chime in on the fun. I'm never short of an opinion.
First, it'll never work. Two big slow-as-molasses corporate deities merging overlapping services is similar to releasing two rams running full-on at one another: bloody, bloody massacre. AOL & Time Warner, HP & Compaq, etc. I don't think Y! or Microsoft has successfully integrated any of their acquisitions, albeit Flickr has grown incredibly—probably because of Stewart and how he manages his team and dealing w/ his superiors, upper management, (aka the buzzword bullies). Every other buy has had incredible difficulties.
The Big G men have bounced back, hoping to prevent the takeover. I believe that they are afraid that Microsoft will destroy everything good in Y!. How many big interweb companies have the clout, power and money to shape the wild, wild web for societal good, unshackled by the grips (somewhat) of other corporate monsters? No one wants Yahoo! to lose—and they will in this merger—and that's why the Big G doesn't want it to happen.
I doubt that M$ Empire is serious about search and evolving the internet. I reckon it's more personal to King Ballmer and his minions to undermine the Google Kingdom and bring "peace" to the lands. In the end, the bottom line could kill. In a really bad way.
I wish Yahoo! had the power to buy itself back. Take it private and help build the next big thing or something and never be reminded every three months about meeting numbers and all-hands of all buzzwords—now that's moving the needle and taking it to the next level =)
Conclusion: the merger is an attempt to redefine clusterfuck.
See also:
http://www.istartedsomething.com/20080202/microsoft-yahoo-big-mess-comparison/
http://valleywag.com/351618/an-ex+yahoos-instructions-for-microsoft
http://searchengineland.com/080201-132458.php
http://www.blogmaverick.com/2008/02/03/why-yahoo-should-say-yes-to-microsoft/ - Comments
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The sun has set
- Date
- 9/12/2007 10:53:00 AM [permalink]
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- yahooza
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- Holy shit, Hell has frozen!
SUNN MYKROSISTUMZ CAN HAZ WINTENDO FERUM MIKERSUFT. ALL YER SOLLARUS R BEELUNG 2 REDMUND.
- http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2007/.... - Comments
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