An online notebook
Some dead interesting stuff popped up when I logged in this morning – all worth giving a read: Facebook buys FriendFeed Lots of people seem to be quite upset about this one. Friendfeed is still a pretty niche service, even by the standards of the social web, so this isn’t that seismic a change. The … Keep reading
Robert X Cringely on Bill Gates’ retirement: If we were to place the importance of Bill Gates in the history of both Microsoft and the personal computer industry he’d be up there with most anyone. I’m not here to claim that Bill’s contributions weren’t significant, because they were. At half a dozen points during the … Keep reading
Here’s some of the stuff I’ve been reading around the web about the proposed Microsoft purchase of Yahoo! There’s some interesting commentary out there. Jeff Jarvis at Guardian Unlimited: This is just as well for Yahoo, which had no strategy, really. They’d gone as far as they could with the old-media model, as exploited by … Keep reading
Wow, major news breaking on the horizon. Microsoft have offered to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion. Our lives, our businesses, and even our society have been progressively transformed by the Web, and Yahoo! has played a pioneering role by building compelling, high-scale services and infrastructure,” said Ray Ozzie, chief software architect at Microsoft. “The combination … Keep reading