The High Order Bit

I know Microsoft & Yahoo have been in periodic discussions for some time, but they’re back on the radar and for once my infrequent posts have helped me draw some connections. Since the news broke, in the back of my mind I was always thinking Microsoft’s bid for Yahoo didn’t make too much sense. From way back here in the audience, anyway. But re-reading my old posts got me thinking.

I wrote about Photosynth a while back – a Microsoft owned application that can take photos from a stream and mash them together. So, a source like Flickr would be ideal to contribute to something like …oh, I don’t know, a world collaboration to map the earth? Yahoo owns Flickr. Microflickrhoo could conceivably take a significant chunk out Google’s maps and who knows what else? Maybe that’s where they came up w/ their valuation – throw everything Yahoo away except for a few properties Microsoft doesn’t have…say..Alibaba? My gears are turning on this..