Publishing 2.0: What Microsoft Buying Yahoo Really Means

Posted on 3 February, 2008 by Martin Stabe

Scott Karp: "The main problem with Microsoft and Yahoo, looking forward, is that they are not web-native companies — they rely on centralized control models, rather than distributed network models"

The Observer: Can Microsoft beat tough kid Google?

Posted on 3 February, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"Microsoft faces the same sort of challenges from the internet as the newspaper industry: if it puts its product online it risks cannibalising its own business." But of course, Google is doing just that...

New York Times: Deal That May Create More, Not Less, Competition

Posted on 2 February, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"In most industries, a merger of two major companies would cause everyone else to panic over a decline in competition. But in the case of the online advertising market ..."

Indiskretion Ehrensache: Microhoo – Microwho?

Posted on 1 February, 2008 by Martin Stabe

Handelsblatt's Thomas Knüwer notes that a Yahoo-Microsoft merger would have a signifcant hurdle to overcome in the European Commission's anti-trust authorities (in German).

Guardian: Microsoft’s letter to the Yahoo board

Posted on 1 February, 2008 by Martin Stabe

"Together we can unleash new levels of innovation, delivering enhanced user experiences, breakthroughs in search, and new advertising platform capabilities."

BBC Internet Blog: The Days Before Launch

Posted on 14 December, 2007 by Martin Stabe

BBC News Interactive's launch editor Mike Smartt explains the process of getting the site running 10 years ago. And has a mockup of an "MSBBC" logo that might have been following talks with Microsoft.

Times Online: Microsoft swoop hands Multimap founder $25m

Posted on 13 December, 2007 by Martin Stabe

The significance, down near the bottom: "delivering localised adverts according to a consumers’ position is seen as a key part of advertising’s future. ..."

Search Engine Land: ACAP Launches, Robots.txt 2.0 For Blocking Search Engines?

Posted on 30 November, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Danny Sullivan: "Right now, none of the major search engines are supporting ACAP. If you were to use ACAP without ensuring that standard robots.txt or meta robots commands were also included, you'd fail to properly block search engines."

BusinessWeek: Will Google own content in 2010

Posted on 25 November, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Jon Fine: "There’s now a case to be made for Google (and, for that matter, Google’s competitors) to buy up content players. Or, rather, there will, be, once their monumental growth slows down and the competition for traffic becomes more costly than it

Reuters: Microsoft to provide advertising for Digg

Posted on 26 July, 2007 by Martin Stabe

Microsoft Corp. said on Wednesday it reached an agreement to be the exclusive provider of display and contextual advertising on Digg.com

Telegraph: How to stave off a digital ‘dark age’

Posted on 5 July, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"[E]lectronic data is proving far more ephemeral than paper: we now produce and access far more information, but it is harder to keep intact. It is not just historians who are worried. "

The Register: Open sourcers rattle EU sabre at BBC on demand player

Posted on 23 June, 2007 by Martin Stabe

The Open Source Consortium says says the BBC is locking users into a Microsoft platform with its iPlayer and will raise an anti-trust complaint with Ofcom next week, and could go as far as the European Competition Commission.

CNET News.com: BBC show uses Microsoft tech for 3D imagery

Posted on 8 June, 2007 by Martin Stabe

"The BBC is using Microsoft's Photosynth 3D imaging software to provide views of prominent British buildings in conjunction with a new TV show, How We Built Britain."

BBC: How We Built Britain – Help: Adding photos