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Is a MicroHooBook in your future?

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

John Furrier, ex of Podtech, says that he’s hearing rumours Microsoft may make a two-stage attempt to cure its lack of Web savvy by first acquiring Yahoo’s search business and then bolting on Facebook for $20-billion or so. For what it’s worth, Robert Scob ... Continue reading »

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  • ianbetteridge

    1 year ago

    I can see how Yahoo search + Facebook would offer more value to Microsoft than the whole of Yahoo - Yahoo comes with a lot of properties which have no synergy whatsoever other than the single Yahoo sign-in, which is why the thing requires so much work.

    But Robert's "THEY WANT TO CONTROL TEH INTERNETTZZZ!" post really shows he should go to bed earlier rather than staying up late and posting. If Microsoft bought Facebook, I'd expect it to open it up, rather than keeping it as a walled garden - because that way, more eyeballs would end up on Facebook pages, which would come with nice little targetted former-Yahoo ads on them.
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  • mathewi

    1 year ago

    I have to agree, Ian -- I just don't see the upside for Microsoft in
    trying to keep things closed, and I think even they would see that.
    There's too much pressure already for things to be open and
    inter-operable. But I bet it has occurred to them :-)
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  • ianbetteridge

    1 year ago

    Yeah - they actually have a department called "We Do Evil" that works out what the worst thing they could do would be. Fact! I heard it at a party from a guy who once worked in a coffee shop in Redmond, so it must be true ;)
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  • JoeDuck

    1 year ago

    Whoops... I just read this and thought I had coined "MicroHooBook" but you wrote this a full hour before I did. I'll give you credit for coining the phrase at my post...
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  • JoeDuck

    1 year ago

    Ha - looks like this blog actually had the first usage:
    http://463.blogs.com/the_463/2008/05/microhoobo...
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  • mathewi

    1 year ago

    Thanks, Joe -- guess I should tear up that "cease and desist" document
    I was having my lawyer draw up and send to you :-)
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  • JoeDuck

    1 year ago

    Send it on Matt, I've already filed for Web 2.0 Canadian copyright cruelty protection.
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