Thursday, October 13, 2005

Some Random Thoughts on the Industry

Yahoo, Microsoft join IM hands
Looks like the battle lines are being drawn for the next generation of Web wars. Microsoft has been suprisingly open with it's IM operability if you recall that days when MS attempted to interoperate with AOL's AIM without AOL permission. Great news for us Canadian who primarily use these 2 services over the AOL suite of IM clients.

John Battelle thinks this may set the table for AOL to work with Google Talk. Which leads into this store:

Google, Comcast in talks to invest in AOL
I find it funny as a former AOL employee that Google would even consider this. It's knee jerk to the MSN/Yahoo relationship along with Google's concerns of losing it's Ad words revenue from AOL's membership base if AOL is acquired by someone else..say Microsoft? I would caution Google to look at AOL's past performance with "partnerships". Time Warner, Netscape, ICQ....hello?

Apple unveils video iPod, new iMac
Growden and I discussed what this COULD have been prior to the announcement and our idea was much cooler. An iPod PVR...dock it by your TV and record all the shows to your iPod and watch it on the embedded player or any other TV. Pay for video is also cool.

Michelle...you can have my mini :-)

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