After a weekend of negotiation, Microsoft announced this evening that they are walking away from the Yahoo! deal.
“Clearly a deal is not to be,” said Ballmer.
Details can be found at the Washington Post.
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There’s been a lot of chatter swirling around the interwebs lately that all comes back to one central theme: bullying.
Wired Magazine’s April issue features Apple, calling them Evil/Genius and basically called them to the mat for being one of the biggest bullies in Silicon Valley.
Apple is irredeemably evil, behaving more like an old-fashioned industrial titan […]
Coldplay announced today that they would be offering their first single from their new album “Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends”, Violet Hill, as a free download from their site beginning tomorrow. Fans only have a week to grab the single and the album goes on sale in the UK on June […]
Lately I have been experimenting with a few different social media sites to see what type of impact they have on my blog.
Also I have been creating a social media plan for the company that I presently work with. They operate in a different space than my previous company with a different type of audience, […]
This weekend I read the new edition of Rolling Stone Magazine and the article The Machinery of Hope. The article talked about Obama’s use of social media as a tool in his campaign.
Really interesting read, check it out and let me know what you think.
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Kevin Lim a doctoral candidate at the University of Buffalo has a great post about “Walled Gardens”.
One of the focuses of the post is the idea that the next step in social networking is the aggregation of our data and profiles. A topic […]
MySpace is rumored to be announcing their API next week at a Web 2.0 conference. It will be interesting to see how developers jump on this, I wonder how quick the amount of add ons available will surpass the ones available for Facebook, it at all.
eBay launches their own social networking feature, Neighborhoods. This is […]
Like I always do I collect a lot of stories that I want to blog about but never find a way to write about them or have time to. Here are a few stories that I found interesting that I thought I would share.
I am always looking for a way to aggregate the data from […]
As I said earlier this week I was pretty much going to stick to the half hour promotion blogs until I finished the series but I would keep everyone up to date on various news.
Here are some interesting things that I found this week:
Slashdot has an interesting discussion on social networking going
Techcrunch has been invited […]
A food site with a social networking twist- Epicurious
Watch the power of social networking- HSBC forced to bow to students’ viral protest over overdrafts
Women in the world of business should use social networking sites as an avenue for advancement
Spacelift is an interesting application on Facebook that allows you to import your MySpace profile to […]
How to use social networking to create brand recognition for your business, your product, or yourself.
Written by Colleen Coplick [email] for b5media.
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