Big tech news today. Microsoft wants to acquire Yahoo![!]
Apparently, they’re getting sick of Google handing them their ass in the company acquisition front. With all the big buys Google has been making (YouTube, DoubleClick being the most notable) Microsoft would seem to be getting a bit desperate to bolster their arsenal of web tech weapons to compete with the mighty G.
This should be interesting.
Oh, the estimated value of Yahoo is roughly 50 billion. Is that all?
Ok, for those of you who don’t know, music used to be my ‘profession’. Played drums, actually. Love the instrument and love music but hate the music biz. It sucks to high heaven. Can’t be any more clear than that.
I was just reading a post on Ross Halfin’s blog (my favorite blog by the way) where he’s ripping on Scott Weiland (April 25th entry). Now I don’t know Scott Weiland, but I used to know all the singers I’ve worked with, and they’re all wienies. Some more so than others. Guitar players aren’t much better (John Gaudesi being the lone exception…a freaking genius and amazing guitar builder…and friend) but I’m still friends with all of them…they usually realize in time that it doesn’t pay to be a jerk.
Bass players…they rock. Dennis Sobole is the rock solid man of the world on bass (wonder where he got that from??) and Mike Davis is the twelve string master. And they’re great guys! What’s with that??
Drummers, of course, are the best of all! 
Google today basically told Viacom that they have every right to broadcast its videos on YouTube (YouTube is owned by Google in case you’ve been on vacation in Antarctica), many of which are Viacom-owned properties.
Viacom had previously filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Google.
This has all the makings of an all-out cyber war in court, and could have far reaching effects over content on the web and how its distributed.
So does this mean that Viacom is going to suffer a ranking penalty on Google’s search engine??
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