What will happen to my precious social media tools like Flickr, del.icio.us and Upcoming, now Microsoft wants its grubby mitts on the Yahoo! family!!?
That's what I was wondering when I heard about the Microsoft $44 bn bid for Yahoo. Obviously it potentially changes the face of the computer and web landscape. But my first reaction was for us poor users of the very unmicrosofty social media brands that are recent acquisitions of Yahoo and which may soon be part of Office Live or something like that. Check out this article on Wired about the Flickr rebellion that's already starting.
So will this make our Office more social, or could it lock down the best stuff of the web?
* Bonus link
Thanks to Bobbie Johnson for linking to this on Twitter - Last night on Newsnight, they had Robert Scoble and Charles Arthur Bobbie Johnson as their pundits. http://icanhaz.com/nn
Surely Search is something that Google does best. But there is more to the internet than Search. There is also online entertainment (and as we switch from TV to online, more and more, in the future, online entertainment will get even bigger - and Microsoft already has experience in online entertainment).
Interesting post (and blog). Would you be interested in exchanging links?
Posted by: Eamon | February 10, 2008 at 11:03 PM