Tim O'Reilly on the MS/Yahoo deal

Microsoft plus Yahoo! Strategic Assets in Email: "By Tim O'Reilly

So much of the chatter around Microsoft's proposed acquisition of Yahoo! revolves around competition with Google in the online advertising market. While that is a huge market, one that Google now dominates, and one that Microsoft has a jones for, that's a very narrow way to view the combination. And for Microsoft, it could be a fatal mistake to take the battle to Google on its own ground. That's the very mistake that companies like Netscape made in competing with Microsoft."

(Via O'Reilly Radar.)

I still haven't seen any reasoned look at the impact on Flickr!