By this time next year, Google’s search business will be larger and more profitable than the most profitable and legendary monopoly in history–Microsoft Windows.
Microsoft still has Office, their huge cash cow, with Google Docs no threat for now. But the definite and irreversible trend is towards computing in the cloud, not on the desktop, so Microsoft long-term is vulnerable there too.
Before it was on CNN, before MSNBC, before the BBC, even before the USGS (The United States Geological Survey, which handles earthquake data) had the information, Twitter was on it
This could become an entirely new way to report the news, a decentralized network of millions across the globe reporting the news real time. Twitter is still a pup, imagine where it could be in a year or so.
With detailed instructions on how to bundle pack, which apparently is even better than rolling clothes up tight.
Audacity, the amazing open source audio editing program, has just released a major update with a multitude of new features.
Ballmer will not be forced out due to the MicroHoo debacle, but will lose major cred and face, as will Microsoft as a company.
I predicted here yesterday that MicroHoo would never come to be, and events have proven me correct.
The big winner here is Google, followed by Yahoo. Microsoft and Ballmer by contrast, look clumsy and clueless.
My guess: The last minute talks this weekend will not result in a friendly deal, and Microsoft will not try an unfriendly takeover.
All of which leaves Yahoo where it was, a once-great powerhouse, now slipping noticeably. While their financial site remains one of the best, their email gets way too much spam. I mean, why is it that I get virtually no uncaught spam on GMail, and way too much of it on Yahoo Mail?
Microsoft still doesn’t really get it about the cloud, about doing everything online. But then Office is their major cash cow, isn’t it.? Apparently they want Yahoo for the advertising. But Google is already way ahead on Yahoo on that.
We’re in transit, in the midst of a move, hence the lack of posts. Regular blogging will resume soon.
Sounds like somebody’s actually damaged Storm. Maybe they’re not ten meters tall, after all.
They did it by injecting “polluted” content into Storm to confuse it.
- Too much leverage
- No strategy
- Bad timing
Read the whole article, lots of good tips.
Theroxylandr adds, buy deep in the money options above (or below) resistance (or support.) This protects from considerable possible damage.
I’ve learned most of the above the hard way!
Twitter Feed allows you to post any rss feed, including blog posts, to your Twitter account (the first 140 characters only, of course). It even puts in a tiny url for you. Very useful. I use it to post from polizeros and from my Google Reader Shared items.
