I recently read an article on ZDNet. It was about a deal that Yahoo! and Google were about to finalise. Read it here. I’m telling you, it’s a pretty long read, might get boring…
Anyway, let me first spout about the deal. Well, it’s not like Yahoo! going to be completely bought out, just some help with the ads and all. I think this is a good thing. Yahoo! and Google have been at each other’s necks for too long now. It’s childish. To compete with someone like Microsoft, you need much more cooperation and the willingness to work together to achieve a common goal, even thought it might be for different personal reasons.
The thing is, I’m not really too interested in the nitty-gritty details of the deal. But there’s one deal which caused me to think:
Google and Yahoo will make their instant messaging services interoperable.
You see, this makes me think, Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo are already interoperable. If GTalk and Yahoo became foster brothers, then would GTalk and Live Messenger become interoperable? I’m confused.
But, this is a good thing. Especially for a performance freak like me. You see…the fact remains that…GTalk is a very light-weight browser. And if I can get all my contacts in one IM application, it would be great. I mean, we do have Pidgin and Trillian, but they’re still heavier than GTalk. Plus, GTalk supports AIM! Later…..
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