wow factor

When a company needs a set of instructions to open it's software packaging, can you imagine what they will end up doing to the likes of elegant Flickr.
Sorry, you need a Certified version of Vista and IE6, 7 or 8 to post images.

No doubt the $44.6 billion offer will sway the day and Steve, the squirter, Ballmer will get very excited yet again.

Update:

The Mi-Yah-soft offer.

Daring Fireball

"I think it’s the end of Yahoo as we know it. Andy Baio’s analogy seems perfectly apt: “It’s like tying the Titanic to the iceberg. It’d keep you from sinking just long enough to freeze to death.”"

EULA on Flickr

take a break from your made in China flat screen TV and switch on your made in China computer and watch some made in China history about Tiananmen Square June 1989

If you can't wait until the Games, don't feel bad about watching it now as it sure beats the current media coverage of Paris Hilton.

Note that the Google video is 52 minutes long.

Also note that Google, Yahoo and others have some questions to answer about their relationships with China