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Fake Steve Jobs is rather more concise than me: The Borg-Yahoo merger won’t work. Here’s why. It’s like taking the two guys who finished second and third in a 100-yard dash and tying their legs together and asking for a rematch, believing that now they’ll run faster. So Microsoft has tendered a bid to buy Yahoo! for $44.6bn. I understand that Microsoft has to do something to build on its web strategy/presence. No-one uses Live Search, Live Spaces, or any of the rest. (OK. About one percent of people do). To build up any future trade for advertising, web services or development Google Answers has been closed while Yahoo! Answers goes from strength to strength. The key difference between the two is that Google’s service paid vetted ‘experts’ to produce results, while Yahoo allows anyone to pitch in. The whole thing leaves a lot of questions. I’m not sure whether the stats prove an Not really Web 2.0 or web-anything, but interesting nonetheless. News on Wednesday that Microsoft is threatening to pull out of China because of human rights’ violations. The BBC quotes Fred Tipson, MS’ senior policy counsel, who says: “Things are getting bad… and perhaps we have to look again at our presence there,” he told a conference It’s not important for you to know my name — Nor I to know yours If we communicate for two minutes only It will be enough For knowing that someone in this world Feels as desperate as me — And what you give is what you get. It doesn’t matter if we never meet again, What In what may be a PR masterpiece, the new Yahoo! corporate blog is nothing but self-effacing. My headline is theirs for their virgin entry. “Oh, yes, we’re going corporate. But please don’t hold that against us. It’s a good thing, really,” they go on to say. Signs are that this will be an interesting read. Major Continue reading yet another self-serving corporate blog |             | |||
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