The Great Microsoft-Google Social Web Battle (
Page 1 of 11 ) The March 25 announcement that Yahoo was joining forces with Google and MySpace to forge the OpenSocial Foundation was hardly a surprise, given Yahoo's tendency toward open standards. OpenSocial includes APIs that let developers write applications that will work on any social site that supports the effort. Facebook has already declined to participate, and Microsoft seems to be in a holding pattern on the OpenSocial spec. What exactly does this mean? Would a Microsoft purchase of Yahoo complicate matters for the OpenSocial Foundation? Could Google and Microsoft get along together in OpenSocial? eWEEK offers a hypothetical scenario of how the social Web could play out in a chess game between rivals Google and Microsoft during the next few years.
By Clint Boulton
| | Discuss The Great Microsoft-Google Social Web Battle | | | | | | | Please can the "slideshows" and place the article on one page. After waiting for... | | | | | | Fix your website. Great content, but a cluttered layout and I have to adjust the... | | | | | | I had already decided never to watch another slide show from this site. Now, if was... | | | | | | I think it's a waste of time trying to get their attention. There are thousands of... | | | | | | Yes- can the slideshows. I would rather read the article that see the slideshow. ... | | | | | | Ray:
I've addressed the matter with my superiors, who have mentioned it to the... | | | | | | Why the slides? Put it on one page a bullet or bold the steps. Slide progression is... | | | | | | Yes, except all it does is that it takes me 10 minutes and 20 clicks and scrolls to... | | | | | | I really hate these. When a new slide comes on, it's always higher or lower than the... | | | | | | I read the rest of the comments, not one positive about these slides. I'm a speed... | | | | | | I've never commented before, but this slide show format really deserves one... it's... | | | | | | please get rid of the slide show - I want to read at my pace, the content is not so... | | | | | | I have used this type of format to train field users in my job. To make it work, you... | | | | | | When will eWeek outgrow their crappy slideshow presentations??
A better... | | | | | | SLIDE SHOW IS NOT THE BEST WAY TO PRESENT SO MUCH INFORMATION...CAN'T READ THAT... | | | | | | I agree, the slide show format is lame, cluttered and you constantly have to... | | | | | | Rated "poor". Not because of the content necessarily, but because I am not going... | | | | | | You can, if you want, easily stop the slideshow and run it at your own pace. Just... | | | | | | No point in trying to read your article.
Get rid of this crappy idea and use a... | | | | | | Please replace the slideshow format with articles. I WANT to read the information,... | | | | | | You have great content...you are failing to deliver the message to so many... | | | | | | Please deactivate the Slide-show and place the whole article on one page. | | | | | | I'll repeat what seems to be universal: CAN THE SLIDE SHOW FORMAT. I have literally... | | | | | | This has been irritating me for a while. Its always too fast and I end up having to... | | | | | | Dislike your slideshow format so much that I don't care about the content. | | | | | | First pagination, now slide shows....it gets more and more difficult to read content... | | | | | | Taking the size of Yahoo and their customer base, having Google buy them may not be... | | | | | | This article is impossible to read through..... | | | | | | I concur with the other posters. I usually don't read your articles because of this... | | | | | | I'm taking the time to comment after reading the other posts and chuckling to myself... | | | | | | I noticed later that "Ray" from eWeek responded that they are listening to... | | | | | | If all you're going to do is run a powerpoint slide show for me, then I'll go else... | | | | | | I have a high speed connection, but the slide starts loading page 2 before page one... | | | | | | I never comment, but I was interested in the article, which wasn't very good but the... | | | | | | Slide shows are for presentations.
When you read at your own pace, slide shows... | | | | | | Please drop the time wasting slide show format, and put the information in concisely... | | | | | | Mega dittos for what others are YELLING. | | | | | | I click one of these articles I realize what I have done and I can't click fast... | | | | | | The article is a very interesting one but the constantly changing pages and page... | | | | | | The format alone has p*ssed me off so much that I am now going to filter out all of... | | | | | | ...and probably just another excuse for a slideshow to pump up the advertizing... | | | | | | Sorry, but I will not watch any slideshows, no matter how interesting the content... | | | | | | Can you please dump the slide show functionality. It is extremely agravating to... | | | | | | I usually browse the email and see if their is an article that I'd like to read.... | | | | | | Please get rid of the slide show format and show the whole article. It is... | | | | | | Completely unworkable and distracting if your purpose is to share important... | | | | | | >>> Post your comment now! | | | | | |
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