If you took the time to nominate a company for the Open Web Awards, you might be interested to know that final voting is now open.
You have until Sunday, November 30th 11:59 pm PST to vote!
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Voting Open for the 2nd Open Web Awards
It took two years to develop Lively–the 3D world from Google.
It took less than 5 months for Google to announce it is shutting it down.
…despite all the virtual high fives and creative rooms everyone has enjoyed in the last four and a half months, we’ve decided to shut Lively down at the end of the year. It has been a tough decision, but we want to ensure that we prioritize our resources and focus more on our core search, ads and apps business.
Isn’t that basically what I suggested?
…there’s a long, long way to go in perfecting Google’s search engine. Right? So, why are Google engineers focusing their free time on projects that don’t serve that goal? Are they bored with search? Is this a sentiment that is pervasive among Google’s top talent?
I’m sorry for Niniane Wang–she developed Lively–but glad that Google put it out of its misery.
Today is the last day of the year with all odd digits: 11-19 (or 19-11 if you’re so inclined). Thought you’d like to know.
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Linky Goodness, November 19
The world has changed a lot since January 31, 2008. In case you’ve just tuned in, here’s a quick recap of the last nine and a half months:
Yep, that’s it in a nutshell. Despite Yahoo’s initial rejection and later renewed-then-foundered courtship with Microsoft, rumors have persisted that Microsoft is still interested in purchasing all or part of Yahoo.
Microsoft disagrees. According to MarketWatch (via), at the annual shareholders’ meeting, CEO Steve Ballmer said:
Let me be as clear as I think I’ve tried to be publicly. . . .
We are done with all acquisition discussions with Yahoo. I’ve said that a bunch of times. Somehow some people have gotten confused nonetheless.
We did our best. We thought we had something that made sense. It didn’t make sense to them. We’ve moved on.
But perhaps he doth protest too much—especially when he follows that up with saying that purchasing the search portion of Yahoo is “interesting.”
The WSJ and Seattle PI (via) also report that Ballmer says he’s open to a “search collaboration” with Yahoo.
What do you think—is a Microsoft-Yahoo “search collaboration” a good idea? And what would it look like?
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The Toyota folks must be loving all this hatred.
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