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Why Microsoft is Buying Skype for $8.5 Billion: Tech News and Analysis « Skype CEO Tony Bates Updated at 12 midnight. Microsoft has bought Skype for $8.5 billion, in an all-cash deal. The deal closed a few hours ago. is close to finalizing a deal to buy Skype for between $7 billion to $8 billion. The Wall Street Journal confirmed the news after we had first reported it yesterday. The announcement is likely to come out later today or tomorrow morning, according to several reports. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, is said to be a big champion of the deal, the largest in the history of the company. Ballmer and Skype CEO Tony Bates will host a press conference in a few hours.

Skype has been up for sale for some time, thanks to some very antsy investors. It won’t surprise me if Microsoft comes in for major heat on this decision to buy Skype — and the software company could always botch this purchase, as it often does when it buys a company. I also don’t believe Facebook and Google were serious buyers. Guess Who’s the Big Winner Facebook needs Skype badly. Google fa un altro passo verso il "social" con il tasto "+1" Chat Anywhere Using Twitter. There are so many tools being developed now that allow people to connect with their Twitter friends more efficiently.

Developers are keen on doing so because they know that more and more people want to make the most out of their social online life. It is no longer enough to share links, but it is also important to engage your readers, followers and friends. It makes the relationship deeper, and it also allows one to really get a feel for the pulse of what is happening around us. This tool is called Nurph. Nurph allows you to chat anywhere using your Twitter account. 1. 2. 3. I have included a demo on how you can use this tool. Main Image. Some killer reasons why GOOG should bid for T-Mobile... The potential acquisition of T-Mobile by AT&T [T] is bad news for Silicon Valley with its strong focus on the consumer: search, social networks, and a spectrum of cloud based services.

The reason is that the distributors of all that wonderful Silicon Valley content and services, from Google, Facebook, Twitter, and a myriad other companies, will have to travel through fewer owners of the distribution networks. And if those distribution networks fail as a level playing field for all -- then innovation in Silicon Valley by both large and small will be drastically curtailed. Startups will have to pay for access to consumers and that will raise costs and the amount of startup capital needed -- it's at an all time low currently. I'm surprised that Google didn't make a bid for T-Mobile. . - The wireless carriers have a big influence on what features and services they will support in handsets. - If Google search is a click or two away on a mobile device it will lose huge amounts of traffic.

Maybe. The Decline Of Web 2.0. 19 December '10, 03:39am Follow We are all obsessed with sites like Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin at the moment but rewind a few years to when the term Web 2.0 first popped up and a whole host of different sites were the hot young startups destined for great things. It’s amazing what a couple of years do though because as we can see below, some of the biggest sites from the “Web 2.0 generation” are either on a massive decline, facing huge competition or about to be closed down. There’s a good lesson here to highlight; how the hype cycle around websites and services can come and go and what was once lauded and destined for great things can within a couple of years shut down and be abandoned… Delicious One of the most popular and useful sites of the Web 2.0 era, this massively practical bookmarking tool was used by many people to keep track of content that they found online.

Digg Flickr Myspace Bebo What Does All This mean? Google's decreasingly useful, spam-filled web search. Jeff Atwood, in Trouble In the House of Google: People whose opinions I respect have all been echoing the same sentiment — Google, the once essential tool, is somehow losing its edge. The spammers, scrapers, and SEO’ed-to-the-hilt content farms are winning. (via Anil Dash’s nice roundup on the issue) I’ve been frustrated as well by Google’s apparent defeat by spam.

It’s not a sudden issue — it’s been gradually worsening for a few years. When I ask Google for something, it’s usually from these types of queries: Address bar: Where is this specific page that I know exists but I don’t know its URL? Over the years, the impact of spam — mostly affiliate marketing and auto-generated splogs — has decimated the usefulness of the “product research” category.

But recently, spam has taken over the “guide” query results, and even many “reference” queries. In other words, it’s now nearly impossible to find good results for many commonly asked types of queries. “Hey, anyone know how to wire an outlet?” What Really Is Hurting Google: Social Search by John A. Byrne. Google's latest decision to change its secret algorithms to reduce the rankings of trashy websites is a long overdue and important step to improve the company's core product: search.

But the bigger problem with Google is not how spammers and low-quality web publishers have figured out how to game Google's search results, something I wrote about in August of last year in "Google? Where Are You? " and "Bing vs. Google: Guess Who Wins? " What has really eroded the company's dominance in search is good, old fashioned competition from new innovative rivals.

Social search, in the form of Facebook, Twitter, Stumbleupon, Reddit, Business Exchange, etc., has significantly and steadily diminished the relevance, value and usefulness of Google search results. My own experience with a now six-month-old website, PoetsandQuants, clearly demonstrates the power and the superiority of social search over Google's gamed algorithm approach. Original article Connect: Authored by: John Byrne John A. My Life. The Web Is a Customer Service Medium.

Thursday, January 6, 2011 By Paul Ford I look forward to your feedback. I sometimes chat with people in the book- and magazine-publishing industries. They complain to me about the web. They worry about what is being lost. They can sound like this bookseller in Buffalo, New York: Books are not product. I call the people who say such things the Gutenbourgeois. “Look,” I say, “maybe you're doing it wrong.” “But,” they say, “we tweet.”

That's when I tell them about the fundamental question of the web. The Fundamental Question of the Web One can spend a lot of time defining a medium in terms of how it looks, what it transmits, wavelengths used, typographic choices made, bandwidth available. Here's one question: “I'm bored, and I want to get out of the house and have an experience, possibly involving elves or bombs. The answer: You could go to a movie. Here's another: “How do I distract myself without leaving the house?” You might turn on the TV. “I'm driving, or making dinner. Radio! The Unconsulted.