[NewWorldMan]

Effective July 17.

Why join a sinking ship? Maybe she just wanted top dog position? If she manages to turn it round I will be mightily impressed.

[subversive]

or maybe we will be seeing a tip toe pitter patter, google take over of yahoo. In the wake of facebook.com, they are perceived to be, or made out to what google are to microsoft.

Remember all those calls for Microsoft to broken up, by the US Department of Justice, because they were a monopoly, etc. Then along came google, high profile new kid on the block, effectively took the heat away from Microsoft.

Now google can if they want, take over yahoo and use the imminent threat of facebook.com as an excuse.

this will be a slap in the face of microsoft, who move too slow...

[s2k]

Originally Posted by subversive

or maybe we will be seeing a tip toe pitter patter, google take over of yahoo. In the wake of facebook.com, they are perceived to be, or made out to what google are to microsoft.

Remember all those calls for Microsoft to broken up, by the US Department of Justice, because they were a monopoly, etc. Then along came google, high profile new kid on the block, effectively took the heat away from Microsoft.

Now google can if they want, take over yahoo and use the imminent threat of facebook.com as an excuse.

this will be a slap in the face of microsoft, who move too slow...

You seem to have completely the wrong end of the stick. Microsoft already own a massive chunk of Yahoo and some of the services have already been migrated across. eg. Babelfish

I believe they also have their fingers in the facebook pie with Bing integration. The latest build of Office can also interface with Facebook (and various other social outlets) if your into that sort of thing.

[cnbcwatcher]

Originally Posted by s2k

I believe they also have their fingers in the facebook pie with Bing integration. The latest build of Office can also interface with Facebook (and various other social outlets) if your into that sort of thing.

You serious?! I must admit I'm getting sick of Facebook integration everywhere. I think it's becoming a bit too dominant

[subversive]

Originally Posted by s2k

You seem to have completely the wrong end of the stick. Microsoft already own a massive chunk of Yahoo and some of the services have already been migrated across. eg. Babelfish

I believe they also have their fingers in the facebook pie with Bing integration. The latest build of Office can also interface with Facebook (and various other social outlets) if your into that sort of thing.

I know that yahoo and microsoft are partnering up and doing business together. But didn't know that microsoft actually own stock in yahoo.

don't they own stock in apple too?

Originally Posted by cnbcwatcher

You serious?! I must admit I'm getting sick of Facebook integration everywhere. I think it's becoming a bit too dominant

I think microsoft own 10% of facebook.

[flagpole]

I love Marissa.

[whoever,hey]

Originally Posted by flagpole

I love Marissa.

Shes already pregnant.

[s2k]

Originally Posted by cnbcwatcher

You serious?! I must admit I'm getting sick of Facebook integration everywhere. I think it's becoming a bit too dominant

I believe the primary reason was for the ability to synch contact data with Outlook. They also mentioned that Skype was to be included with the suite.

I get where your coming from. Does my head in when certain sites want you to login with FB credentials or "like" them to access things.

Originally Posted by subversive

I know that yahoo and microsoft are partnering up and doing business together. But didn't know that microsoft actually own stock in yahoo.

don't they own stock in apple too

No idea. The markets are all Greek to me (ooh-er). cnbcwatcher might be able to answer that one. All I know is MS have gradually been taking over Yahoo's services for some time.

[subversive]

Originally Posted by s2k

I believe the primary reason was for the ability to synch contact data with Outlook. They also mentioned that Skype was to be included with the suite.

I get where your coming from. Does my head in when certain sites want you to login with FB credentials or "like" them to access things.

No idea. The markets are all Greek to me (ooh-er). cnbcwatcher might be able to answer that one. All I know is MS have gradually been taking over Yahoo's services for some time.

To be honest, I am quite sick of facebook. I was stuck in traffic, near a bus stop and guess what the conversation was about, "oh I change my fb status today", "oh did you, I forgot to do mine"...this was a bunch of school kids...

its a bloody virus....incurable some say

[s2k]

Originally Posted by subversive

To be honest, I am quite sick of facebook. I was stuck in traffic, near a bus stop and guess what the conversation was about, "oh I change my fb status today", "oh did you, I forgot to do mine"...this was a bunch of school kids...

its a bloody virus....incurable some say

And you know it would have gone like...
Kid1: "Bus is late AGAIN. FML"
Kid1: "Looks like rain too"
Kid2: "Epic fail!!"
Kid3:"Awww xxxxxx"
Kid1: "Here now and no rain"
Kid2: "win"
Kid1: "School is boring lol"
Kid3: "miss u xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
Kid1: "u 2 xxxxxxxxxxxx"
Kid1: "on my way home now"
<Scrawny hipster kid likes this and every other post on there>

Meanwhile everybody dies a little bit inside.

[subversive]

Originally Posted by s2k

And you know it would have gone like...
Kid1: "Bus is late AGAIN. FML"
Kid1: "Looks like rain too"
Kid2: "Epic fail!!"
Kid3:"Awww xxxxxx"
Kid1: "Here now and no rain"
Kid2: "win"
Kid1: "School is boring lol"
Kid3: "miss u xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
Kid1: "u 2 xxxxxxxxxxxx"
Kid1: "on my way home now"
<Scrawny hipster kid likes this and every other post on there>

Meanwhile everybody dies a little bit inside.

Slowly......


I nearly spurted my coffee all over the keyboard..lol...

I personally think kids have too much nowadays, if I have any kids, I will certainly make sure their lives do not rotate around facebook and ipads, etc...But hey thats just me...

[1saintly]

Originally Posted by s2k

I get where your coming from. Does my head in when certain sites want you to login with FB credentials or "like" them to access things.

Yeah, before you know it, sites like DS will want you to do that

Ps. we dont have a facebook or twitter account, we get some very strange looks of people when we mention that

[s2k]

Originally Posted by 1saintly

Yeah, before you know it, sites like DS will want you to do that

You can use your forum login to post on the main site now. No idea why it was deemed unfeasable before but thankfully someone seems to have given them enough jip about it (it wasn't actually me) for them to back down and make use of their existing member database. Only thing is you dont get to have one of those awkwardly angled avatars with the duck face.

[cnbcwatcher]

Originally Posted by s2k

No idea. The markets are all Greek to me (ooh-er). cnbcwatcher might be able to answer that one. All I know is MS have gradually been taking over Yahoo's services for some time.

I need to think about that one for a bit Might have to research it.

[subversive]

Originally Posted by cnbcwatcher

I need to think about that one for a bit Might have to research it.

just to save you time, I am not interested to be honest..lol...although if you do want to carry out a research campaign, please google or bing away

[cnbcwatcher]

Originally Posted by subversive

just to save you time, I am not interested to be honest..lol...although if you do want to carry out a research campaign, please google or bing away

I'll Google it. I never use Bing.