Yahsoft or Microhoo: Two wrongs don't make a not evil

I know posting has been a little light, lately. But I couldn't resist chiming in on this one...

The blog world is all atwitter (I don't really feel like I can use that word anymore, thanks to Twitter, but I will) about the possibility of Microsoft taking over Yahoo!.

$50 bees is the number being reported. Both Mashable and Techcrunch are good sources for additional details if your interested.

Hypocritical, as always, remains a good source for I-think-I'm-smarter-than-everyone-else snark.

Does anyone see a bubble around here? Anyone smell the wafting success of TimeWarner and AOL? Anyone?

Of course. The so-called reasoning for this little maneuver is obvious, even to me. Who don't want to take a run at those kids in Mountain View?

But a software company that has never really understood how to use the Web and a Web company that is barely getting over its preening as a media company and getting fat on a Web 2.0 acquisition diet? Let alone, the cultural implications for employees?

Putting all that aside, have you ever been through a merger or acquisition? It's not exactly a team-building exercise. And it certainly doesn't enhance your focus.

It will be interesting to watch the hype and the coverage. And to see if it ever comes to fruition. But I just don't see these two as a combined company presenting a serious challenge (anymore than they would have as individual entities) to Google anytime soon.

The whole is less than the sum of the parts.

Labels: bubble, google, microhoo, microsoft, Web2, Web2.0, Web20, wrong, yahoo, yahsoft

Yahsoft or Microhoo: Two wrongs don't make a not evil

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March 23, 2007

MyBlogLog on its way over to the Yahoo servers?

I just got the most random message from MyBlogLog. And believe me, I get a lot of random messages from MyBlogLog.

Looks like they're testing it on the Yahoo! servers.


toddsampson has left you a message at MyBlogLog

Your Message from toddsampson

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xabcDcbA

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View -> http://dev1www1.mbl.corp.sp1.yahoo.com/buzz/members/turoczy/messages/
Reply -> http://dev1www1.mbl.corp.sp1.yahoo.com/buzz/proc/?i=mr200703...
Delete -> http://dev1www1.mbl.corp.sp1.yahoo.com/buzz/proc/?i=md200703...
Spam -> If you think this is spam, please forward to customerservice@mybloglog.com

I can't hit any of the links. Clearly they're behind the Yahoo wall.

Interesting.

Thanks for the heads up, Todd Sampson.

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February 14, 2007

Valentine's Day logotype massacre

What? You haven't heard? The marketing and design worlds are abuzz with rampant theories about the Google Valentine's Day treatment, this year. I, for one, ove the Googe Vaentine's ogotype.

(UPDATE: Dennis Hwang, the Google Doodler (the guy responsible for all the celebratory logotype tweaks), tells us we're seeing things. Or not seeing things that are there. Or something. I say it's Sunkist all over again.)