Can Microsoft Kill Google & Salesforce w/ Exchange Online?

Seems unlikely, but what do we know…

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Google Advertises On Facebook; Zuckerberg Doesn’t Reciprocate

I thought in our “open” we were all just supposed to get along no?

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Zuckerberg: We’re Not Selling Facebook, Probably

If you say so…read more

Can Yahoo! Get the Search Monkey Off Its Back?

You’ll have to ask John Battelle.

Does Google Market Itself?

Fascinating article on John Battelle’s Search Blog

Microsoft’s Search Getting Better

From via Kevin Johnson, Microsoft’s President via John Battelle’s Search Blog:

“On Wednesday, we will be announcing a major new initiative that our search teams have been driving. We are getting better and better with our core algorithmic search, and at the same time, we are investing to differentiate in vertical experiences and to disrupt the current model.”

Google Jumps Into Social Networking with Friend Connect

With the launch of its Google Friend Connect, Google is edging into the social networking waters — and just on the heels of announcements from Facebook and MySpace about the collapse of their garden walls. This service from Google allows website owners to easily add social networking functionality — from message boards to member databases — to their existing website, giving even websites that aren’t explicitly social the ability to become forums for discussion and interaction.

More at BizReport, via WOMMA Word

Tracking The Microsoft/Yahoo! Deal – 05.19.08

From SAI:

• Yahoo! Tries To Hide Parts Of Lawsuit From Public, Icahn
• As Long As We Are Rethinking Yahoo’s Board
• If Icahn Can’t Get Microsoft Back To Table Before Shareholder Meeting, He’ll Lose Proxy Fight
• Microsoft and Yahoo Talking Again!
• Microsoft: We Will Disrupt Google’s Search Business–Details Wednesday
• Microsoft-Yahoo Discussing “Joint Venture?” Run Away Screaming
• Yahoo: See, Carl? Microsoft Doesn’t Want To Buy Us Anymore

From John Battelle’s Search Blog:

• Microsoft Signals…Something

From GigaOm:

• Microsoft, Yahoo Back On, Or Not
• Kevin Johnson’s Memo on Yahoo & Their Strategy

From Web Worker Daily:

• Microsoft and Yahoo!: Not Over Yet?