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Your world is changing, friendo. Separately, Microsoft and Yahoo! are the second and third most trafficked properties on the Web. Together, they will be the first. (Guess who will be the new No. 2? That would be you.) Separately, Microsoft and Yahoo! have two not-bad search engines, two so-so consumer brands and two all-right online-advertising systems. Together, they will still have all those things, plus the added nightmare of integrating them. Separately, Yahoo! and Microsoft are Goliaths. Together, they will be ... an even bigger Goliath. O.K., maybe your world won't change that much...
...Microsoft's e-mail service) and Yahoo! Mail together, they have 426 million users worldwide; that's compared with Gmail's paltry 90 million. But don't let those huge numbers distract you from two very small ones. First, the number 1: that's where Google stands in the search business and in the online-advertising business, the latter of which--unlike search or e-mail or instant messaging--actually has real dollars attached to it. Second, the number 0. That's how many new ideas Microsoft will be acquiring by buying Yahoo! The two companies run their Web businesses...
...Facebook baking status, sent me a message informing me that the cookbook How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman had the best tarte tatin recipe around, and that I could find it on page 700. In a sense, Alex's message summed up my vision for the future of search: I don't just want the information faster, I want it before I even...
...years that Al Aswany spent in the city during the mid-'80s while earning a dentistry degree from the University of Illinois. When he wasn't hitting the books, he would go out into the city - to a gay church, a black-pride organization, the Chicago Symphony - in search of American culture and ideas for a future novel. Nowadays, he could get by happily without his second income, but Al Aswany says he has no intention of giving up his dentistry practice, since filling cavities and performing root canals offers him priceless contact with ordinary people...
...Waal is the program director at New York's Social Science Research Council. His latest book is War in Darfur and the Search for Peace