Do you Yahoo!?
February 05, 2008 by Chris
The news of Microsoft’s hostile takeover bid for Yahoo has left me surprised, but personally and directly, I’m largely unaffected.
I tend to agree with Google’s contention that this is a bad thing for innovation, competition and transparency on the web … but then, I tend to agree with Google on a lot of things, and I’m a big fan of most Google tools.
I say I’m "unaffected," because I don’t use del.icio.us, Flickr, Yahoo! mail, or any other of their services … but I certainly know plenty of people who do.
I’m not virulently anti-Microsoft by any means. I do think their approach to business is more aggressive and less friendly … but after all, running a business isn’t really about making friends, it’s about making money. Right?
(Hint to Microsoft: some companies think you can do both.)
Luis
Hey, well, I was reading about it yesterday and Yahoo is not doing well, and certainly I believe it won’t do good for a long time, I am affected by it, since I have had a yahoo account since forever, but I guess people will have to get use to reach me through my Gmail account…
AerialPJ
I’m affected, but only tangentially…yahoo is my spam…er…I mean shopping account…I use google tools for everything else…they’re just better.
smack
UG, what is going to happen to flickr?!?!?! Freakin I LIVE for flickr.
Jay
I’m with PJ in that yahoo is pretty much just for “trash” emails, but I do use del.icio.us _a lot_ and I think it’s awesome!
It’s a great way of keeping bookmarks for yourself, and even better for directing content on the occasion where you’re like “hmm, Louis would like to know about this”.
Anyway, here’s hoping that the big monopoly doesn’t get any bigger.