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Official Google Blog: Yahoo! and the future of the Internet

Link: Official Google Blog: Yahoo! and the future of the Internet.

Could the acquisition of Yahoo! allow Microsoft -- despite its legacy of serious legal and regulatory offenses -- to extend unfair practices from browsers and operating systems to the Internet? In addition, Microsoft plus Yahoo! equals an overwhelming share of instant messaging and web email accounts. And between them, the two companies operate the two most heavily trafficked portals on the Internet. Could a combination of the two take advantage of a PC software monopoly to unfairly limit the ability of consumers to freely access competitors' email, IM, and web-based services? Policymakers around the world need to ask these questions -- and consumers deserve satisfying answers.

(It's nice to see an egregore/Corporation the size of Google smell fear, Lets just hope you all devour each other.)

'Facebook fatigue' kicks in as people tire of social networks | The Register

Link: 'Facebook fatigue' kicks in as people tire of social networks | The Register.

Shhh! Can you hear a hiss? That's the sound of naughty facts deflating the social networking balloon a tad.

Whisper it, but numbers from web analytics outfit comScore have confirmed what the chatter in bars and cafes has been saying for months - people are, just, well, bored of social networks.

The average length of time users spend on all of the top three sites is on the slide. Bebo, MySpace and Facebook all took double-digit percentage hits in the last months of 2007. December could perhaps be forgiven as a seasonal blip when people see their real friends and family, but the trend was already south.

The story year-on-year is even uglier for social networking advocates. Bebo and MySpace were both well down on the same period in 2006 - Murdoch's site by 24 per cent. Facebook meanwhile chalked up a rise, although way off its mid-2007 hype peak when you couldn't move for zeitgeist-chasing "where's the Facebook angle?" stories in the press and on TV.

You can survey the full numerical horror for yourself here at Creative Capital.

Anonymous

Fallen Nation

Just in time for the second edition, the Fallen Nation website is now live. Next stop the Apocalypse.

 

Infinite OZ | Tin Man | SCIFI.COM

Link: Infinite OZ | Tin Man | SCIFI.COM.

Into the Meat

I have become a centrifugal meat based machine, I have very much enjoyed deleteing my non work based profiles on Myspace, Facebook etc, etc, etc.  You can find me here. At johnharrigan.net and in the flesh.

The future exists in the muscles of the face that smiles before you.  

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The Number 23

The number 23, Jim Carrey's new vehicle. Inspired by the number....