Just read this post about the popular Facebook, the social networking site popular among university students (that was started by a university student), that wants to be sold to Yahoo. Yahoo is really serious in the social networking, witness they were on a shopping spree gobbling up del.icio.us, Flickr and Upcoming. And now Facebook. Yahoo is becoming the social networking giant, the "Microsoft" of social networking I guess. It's also interesting that Facebook is also in talks with Microsoft and Viacom to sell itself as well.
Microsoft is trying to build its social reputation and collaboration through Windows Live. Microsoft even has a Windows Live Labs as well, so you know they're serious about this stuff. They have beta version of Windows Live Mail, Live Search, Live Academic, Live Messenger, they're creating an integrated suite of web products. They're basically playing catch up to Yahoo and Google but knowing Microsoft and its history, Yahoo and Google and others need to be a step ahead of Microsoft otherwise Microsoft will steamroll them (think Internet Explorer vs. Netscape, Windows NT vs. Novell Netware, Lotus 1-2-3 vs. Excel, WordPerfect vs. Word, etc.).
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