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Dumping IM

November 14, 2005

In Giving up on Instant Messaging, long time Instant Messaging user Luis Suarez notices that his IM usage has shifted from AOL, Yahoo, MSN to Skype, Google Talk, and Damaka.   I’ve noticed the same.  I rarely message people on MSN Messenger anymore, but choose Skype or Gizmo Project instead. 

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Microsoft 'Live' Redux

November 2, 2005

I’ve had a little more time to digest the Microsoft Live announcements, read some of the comment from the blogosphere, and chat with some local industry people about their thoughts.  I think the funniest bit of commentary was Om Malik’s Microsoft: I Speak Web 2.0, in which he compared the announcements to a guy having [...]

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MSN / Yahoo

October 12, 2005

I just tuned into the conference call on the MSN / Yahoo Interop Agreement that was announced this morning.  The salient details?  In six to nine months users of both networks will have text, voice, emoticon and presence interoperability, creating a community of 250 million users globally. Jeff Pulver asks does it mean anything?  Only [...]

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MSN / Yahoo Alliance

October 11, 2005

Andy Abramson, CNET, the Seattle PI, and the Wall Street Journal report that MSN and Yahoo will announce an alliance allowing IM users to communicate between networks.  From the WSJ Story: In a competitive realignment of the heated Internet industry, Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. are expected to announce Wednesday that consumers using their free communications [...]

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Microsoft Reorg

September 20, 2005

Here’s an important, but non-VON story.  The Seattle PI published a story this afternoon that Microsoft is reorganizing into three divisions, each with it’s own president.  In addition, Jim Allchin (currently senior VP of the platforms division), is retiring.  The new divisions are: Microsoft Platform Products & Services Division: Windows, Server and Tools, and MSN. [...]

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AOL & MSN in Talks

September 15, 2005

The New York Post reported this morning that Time Warner and Microsoft are in talks to sell a stake in AOL to Microsoft.  Citing two unnamed sources familiar with the matter, the Post said the talks concern Microsoft acquiring an AOL stake and then combining it with Microsoft’s Web unit MSN. Microsoft would pay some [...]

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Andy on Skype / EBay

September 12, 2005

Andy Abramson has similar analysis as my last posting (plus a big Neener-neener!!!! to Om Malik ) here. 

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Mark Evans on EBay / Skype

September 12, 2005

Mark Evans writes: Here’s my initial take on why eBay made the deal. Part of it has to be defensive. It has become increasingly obvious the Web will be dominated by a handful of large companies (eBay, Google, Amazon, AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo and News Corp. if it keeps making acquisitions). The key consideration is [...]

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Microsoft to Open MSN APIs

September 9, 2005

Just caught this on News.com: Microsoft Web Platform Under Construction.  Also Microsoft Web Plan Takes Aim at Google. At the PDC, Microsoft will unveil MSN APIs for MSN Search, portions of MSN Messenger, and Microsoft Virtual Earth.  Seems they are taking notice of Google and Yahoo’s Web 2.0 efforts to turn the Internet into a [...]

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Voice on IM Long Term

August 31, 2005

Om Malik on the Long Term Impact of Combining VoIP and IM.  As he says "Voice will soon become an embedded feature in most applications" — a platform component.  You will see voice in games, IM, business processes, web sites, and many many more places. 

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