My Faves for Monday, March 31, 2008

Master of 500 Hats: Web 3.0 isn't the Semantic Web, it's Hailstorm 2.0. Why it Matters & How Microsoft-Yahoo can beat Google.

The Master of 500 Hats gives us his take on the Microsoft Yahoo deal. It's all about controlling a half billion users to control the user identity playing field.

Quoted: A blog about Geeks, Entrepreneurs, & Startups in Silicon Valley, by Dave McClure. The Internet Revolution, Act II.

[tags: it, web, social, Commentary]

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Balmer: Yahoo the brand will live

You have to admit those guys up in Redmond can be damned smart. 

They picked the name Windows Live really carefully. 

I bet the order has just gone out... 

Windows Live (as in Live and on air) is to be renamed Windows Live (as in live long and prosper) in preparation for the merger with Yahoo. This is a careful ploy for Steve Ballmer to be completely truthful with his statement to BusinessWeek: "Yahoo, the brand , will live,"

May be this is what Steve meant....