Some days ago Microsoft’s proposed acquisition of Yahoo for $46.6 billion is about growing its consumer advertising and portal business to better compete wit Google. And that’s certainly part of the mix, but perhaps lost in the discussion is how such an acquisition could help Microsoft execute its software-plus-services strategy for delivering business apps over the Internet faster and better, said several analysts. That strategy could help Microsoft compete with Google’s own business-apps initiative, they said.

“Yahoo has very efficient datacenters, as does Microsoft,” noted Rob Koplowitz, a Forrester Research analyst. By combining their datacenters — and, more important, their engineering talent — Microsoft should be able to move faster and more efficiently on delivering business apps over the Internet, something that Microsoft has done at a fairly slow pace so far. “Yahoo’s engineers can help,” he noted, “And you know that there’ll be engineers who are freed up” after the acquisition, should it go through.

“Although Google Applications have yet to make a real dent in the Microsoft Office giant, they do pose a long-term threat,” said David Mitchell, a senior IT researcher at the consultancy Ovum. “As a defense against this position, Microsoft needs to accelerate its own move into online services. The online engineering capabilities that Yahoo has will undoubtedly offer Microsoft the potential to bring new services to market” and will help Microsoft stay competitive…..Read the complete article here

I think that it’s a bad idea, I don’t like it. Microsoft is a big company, the most of computers in the world use their operative system Windows, even being the most insecure. The thing is that the big companies end buying the small ones, this is like a loop. As Google has bought Feedburner, Facebook, Youtube… Microsoft want to eat another great company. I think Yahoo has the potential to grown up, even more than they has been doing, and if Microsoft buy Yahoo, all that great work will be dropped, I simply don’t want to lose Yahoo :evil.

What do you think about that deal?

Hey, thanks for everybody who participated in my Entrecard Contest. Really I was expecting more participants but I suppose some many people were drunk on the first January week and didn’t pay attention to blogs…also I give just a week, but don’t worry and I will take note for the next contests.

I will do the sweepstakes tomorrow, I started the university today and I have some tests this week, so I’ll study now :neutral:. I will be clear, thus are the participants who dropped a card, subscribed to my feed or posted about this contest on their blogs:

1. Erz from blogodise.blogspot.com ~ 1 Entry
2. Contest Master from contestime.blogspot.com ~ 10 Entries
3. Ej Cooksey from ejcooksey.blogspot.com ~ 5 Entries
4. Carolanne from carenfranco.com ~ 5 Entries
5. DulceNegosyante from dulcenegosyante.com ~ 5 Entries
6. Indoconsoles from indoconsoles.blogspot.com ~ 10 Entries
7. Nicholas James fromprofitbaron.com ~ 1 Entry
8. highwayman from aibek.nomadlife.org ~ 3 Entries
9. Drew from pixtoo65.blogspot.com ~ 10 Entries
10. Pan Hoffman from seminarlist.blogspot.com ~ 1 Entry
11. Steven Smit from blog.redzero.co.za ~ 3 Entries
12. SEO News from increased-online-traffic.com ~ 3 Entries
13. Oussama Messaoud from messaoud.info ~ 3 Entries
14. lankapo from blog.lankapo.com ~ 10 Entries
15. ShadowKnight from schwoit.com ~ 3 Entries
16. gasmoney from gasmoney.net ~ 5 Entries

I was looking for a tool on internet to do the sweepstakes but I just found random number generators. So I will program a little code to do that, I will give you the source and the screenshots when I make the sweepstakes to be clean and fair.

There is a limit.

If you are like that people who love to drop and drop E-Cards for everywhere on everyblog, you may know that there is a dropping limit. I have reached a couple of times but I don’t know if you already got it too, here it is:

Good luck for tomorrow!

Hey readers, I want to say thanks!! to all the people that contact me congratulating me about the new look of the blog ^^. In addition, I need to configure some widgets, I lost all the old widgets while I backup my blog…I lose the codes and I need to search them and personalized again, so you will see changes all these next days…Also I want to tell you that I’m writing a ebook. I’ll share it with you for free, you can download it and learn the best tips to earn money online, I’ll share the best programs to earn money with a young blog and somethings more…You will like it.

Tomorrow, I will go to the beach for 3 days. So don’t expect to find new posts =D…but when I come back you will have a post’s rush, like my first month,

I promise!!!.Bye bye have fun