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Written by Duke Carico
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Saturday, 02 February 2008 |
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Just some quick observations here as to who the winner might be in this merger . . . . . Microsoft! They finally have some web standards to run with. They couldn't build anything better so they bought them! Hey, I am not knocking them for it! The IE browser was purchased to compete with a company called Netscape and we all know how that one turned out! - Yahoo Search and MSN Live Search - Yahoo was born by being a search engine to catalog the web! Microsoft has been trying unsuccessfully for years to be better! Now it should finally happen
- Yahoo Mail and HotMail! Hotmail should have either been abandoned or redone a long time ago! Yahoo supports IMAP Standards, and has one of the best web based interfaces of any web based email! (even Google's) I expect hotmail to slowly fade away while Microsoft pushes the much more robust Yahoo mail.
- Yahoo Go and Windows Mobile: Yahoo has a pretty cool mobile interface, and Microsoft has a mobile OS! I am hoping to see some really cool things here!
- Yahoo Messenger and MSN- These guys have played nice together for a while now! I don't expect anything to change really other than at some point way out there, they might be combined into one service. No rush however.
As far as blogging goes, MSN has live spaces and Yahoo has Yahoo 360. Neither of these have really ever caught on. I have never looked at 360, but livespaces has an easy to use interface, and even though the pieces are there, its never really been popular or had the standards or add ons like WordPress and TypePad. My suggestion to Microsoft: Buy WordPress, or better yet, Incorporate WP into your servers and offer it! Its Open Source after all! Social Networking. I believe you guys have talked about trying it, but so far its been no go. Again, FaceBook is only growing larger! It might be time to buy it! Flickr Seems to be a popular place on the web and there are lots of little goodies for it as far as mobile apps, and widgets for other sites . . . With all Microsoft is getting in this deal, I would say 44 bilion is a bargain!
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