OK, this isn’t the post I meant to write, but the (pseudo-)developments are simply happening too fast to catch one’s breath.
Today, Microsoft apparently walked away from a Yahoo deal more thoroughly than they previously had, which in itself makes little sense and proves how much Ballmer and Co. have kept themselves in suspended animation during [...]

There have been surprisingly fast developments in the brewing war over social networking open standards involving Facebook and Google’s FriendConnect and OpenSocial, which I first referenced in last week’s post on Microsoft’s possible rationales for soon making an offer for Facebook.
Facebook on Tuesday announced "fbOpen" as its competing OPEN standard for building Facebook compliant social [...]

Developments today prompted me to pull this post I’ve been working on ahead of Part 2 of the "Microhoo Post Mortem Post". Here’s why:
Today, some not so minor controversy erupted in the blogosphere in reaction to the news that Facebook had just shut down Google’s FriendConnect on its platform. There were a lot of details [...]

It’s been 10 days since Microsoft-Yahoo deal was called off by Steve Ballmer, and in the days that followed the commentary and speculation has been churning at record pace.
Several times last week I was tempted to write this post, only to hold off for a while longer because I wanted to write something for my [...]

I am not usually in the habit of creating posts with large scale quotations, but in this case, the information that was revealed, but buried in a longish interview (too long for most people’s itchy, "RSS Feed" attention spans :) is so important, and so validates what I’ve been saying for several weeks now, that [...]

Some comments I wrote today on this Silicon Alley Insider post on new movements in the Microsoft-Yahoo negotiations ballooned to the point that I determined they would be worth their own expanded post for the benefit of my readers.
More so because they were veering head-long into serious "Business Mind Hacks" psychology issues related to [...]