DISQUS

Chris Brogan: Why Microsoft Buying Yahoo COULD Rock

  • Steve Ellwood · 1 year ago
    Not a mention of Yahoo pipes?
    I thought they were/are pretty cool
  • Paisano · 1 year ago
    I also think it can be a great thing for all of us if this happens. Yahoo needs a major change as does M$. Yahoo does many things better than Microsoft such as their mail, search, and even their bookmark/favorites! I tried to like live favorites but Microsoft has an insanely low limit to the number you can keep online! Yahoo bookmarks has handled thousands of bookmarks without a hitch and it allows you to share them too. Unlike google bookmarks, but I digress.

    Yahoo pipes mixed with Microsoft's excellent popfly will be ultra cool! Mash the mashups!

    Paihooligan
  • Tracy Lee · 1 year ago
    I'll keep an open mind, but I have never liked m$ and I really don't like Y! either...so we shall see. I just wish that Flickr wasn't part of the deal.
  • yndygo · 1 year ago
    Good point.

    But I almost have to wonder if they're doing it just a tad too late.
  • rick burnes · 1 year ago
    I definitely respect Ray Ozzie, but tend to agree more with umair:

    Neither company has the DNA to take on Google (let alone the massive number of startups waiting in the wings). Sure, they might collectively have the resources. But DNA will always constrain YahooSoft from utilizing those resources in ways that create value.
  • Kimberly · 1 year ago
    LINUX
    RAWX

    m$
    sux
  • Mark · 1 year ago
    ok. i will try to keep an open mind but the MS track record is not good for opening things up. It's also not great for messing up acquisitions.
  • compassioninpolitics · 1 year ago
    Yahoo Answers and My Blog Log are huge! Opening up the API for My Blog Log was a great move on Yahoo's part. Yahoo answers has great traffic, I just wish I had the same trust that I do of Linked In Answers (even close).

    I seem to remember Scoble touring Yahoo via a qik video that talked about great stuff in the pipeline at Yahoo.
  • Phil Crissman · 1 year ago
    I still can't see how Microsoft acquiring Yahoo would be good for anyone... except maybe Microsoft.

    But, in the case that the acquisition actually happens... hopefully, I could be wrong.