Technobabble
Microsoft may buy Yahoo!
This news is a few days old but I’ve just found the time to sit and write about it today. In a recent announcement, Microsoft has ramped up its efforts to seal a deal to buy search engine Yahoo! in the wake of Google’s recent expansions. Google recently bought YouTube and DoubleClick, and [...]
Microsoft balking at Google purchase of DoubleClick
It was inevitable, really, if you think about it. For years, Microsoft has been the center of antitrust and monopoly conversation around the world. People complain that their operating systems are too widespread, software is too tied in with Windows, documents made in Office need to be opened in Office, you name it, someone has [...]
How to Monetize a New Forum
For starters, for those of you who didn’t know, I have a couple of fairly successful forums. From time to time I get emails from people who just started a new forum and want to know how to make money from it. My answer is pretty much always the same so I might as well [...]