It seems likely that Microsoft's bid for Yahoo is slipping further and further away from possibility. And, if so, what does this mean for the two firms? Growing irrelevance. Monkey Boy has been hedging for the last week and a half. Microsoft had originally taken a hard line, and I suspect Ballmer's ego will not permit him to raise any bid by much. Microsoft's stock also doesn't look like the currency it was even a month ago. Yahoo, likewise, has been rather heel-digging. Microsoft, to some exthttp://dealbreaker.com/2008/04/yahoo_is_do...

The theme of the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco (April 22-24, 2008) is “let’s harness our global brainpower to change the world.†I find this even more exhilarating than last year’s focus on the Programmable Web. During the opening keynotes, Clay Shirky and Tim O’Reilly laid down the challenge: it’s time to step up to the plate, harness our collective intelligence, and use it to change the world. Scott Berkun put the punctuation mark on this discourse by reminding us, amid a backdrop of socialhttp://outsideinnovation.blogs.com/pseybol...

So, I was thinking about the roles of people in society and things that create the diversity we have, it got me thinking. I’ve never really been into sports, not just not interested in them, but generally not good at them too. It’s not an upbringing thing cos I remember Anita, my sister being good at Netball at school and my brother Lyndon is still actively involved in sports. Sport can separate a group almost immediately, the most obvious way would be opposing teams. But people who are passionhttp://www.larddesigns.com/blog/?p=720...