Now That's A Surprise
The NY Post is reporting that Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo! for $50bn.
This map explains why. They want to consolidate the icy north. They might as well pickup AOL why they are at it.
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Hey, where can one find a high-res version of that map! I want one!
Posted by: Berislav Lopac | May 04, 2007 at 07:44 AM
OK, forget the previous comment; just noticed the link.
Posted by: Berislav Lopac | May 04, 2007 at 07:47 AM
ok, than what.
Internet just became more boring.
Posted by: howard Lindzon | May 04, 2007 at 07:52 AM
You should check this post from apophenia... it's an allegory for main internet companies. They are turned into real countries.
MSFT = Germany
YHOO = Japan (MITI !)
GOOG = USA
-- and from the comments --
SUN = France
Apple = Netherlands
CSCO = Russia
--> It's fun / Creative and made you think. I love mapping and assonances.
The all story here :
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/07/16/which_evil_nation_state_are_you__similes_for_microsoft_yahoo_and_google.html
Posted by: leafar | May 04, 2007 at 08:05 AM
I feel it's warrented to post a link to the original source of that comic. It's from a online comic called xlcd:
http://xkcd.com/c256.html
- Griffin
Posted by: Griffin Caprio | May 04, 2007 at 09:45 AM
NM, I am an idiot. I didn't see the map link.
My Apologies.
Griffin
Posted by: Griffin Caprio | May 04, 2007 at 09:46 AM
Yahoo! dropped hints of this deal in a February Time article: http://breakoutperformance.blogspot.com/2007/05/foreshadowing-microsoft-and-yahoo-deal.html
Posted by: Eric Jackson | May 04, 2007 at 11:31 AM
Sun is so totally France LOL... always going on about their language and culture... after seminal contributions to the Internet and mankind, hopelessly locked in a futile struggle against irrelevance.
Posted by: druce | May 04, 2007 at 03:28 PM
I see the Gulf of YouTube but where is the Ruler (aka google)? Do they encompass the entire other hemisphere? good times!
Posted by: Hasan Luongo | May 04, 2007 at 03:35 PM
Yahoo will get buried in Microsoft's bureaucracy the same way their search, msn, live groups all are hidden within the behemoth.
I wish the two would just form a third company and sell their search assets to that third company and go after Goog, which needs some good competition.
Then Yahoo can just be a media company and MS can just be a software company and they can both stop losing to Google.
Posted by: Rick | May 04, 2007 at 05:38 PM
You forgot Sweden!
Posted by: StockRake | May 04, 2007 at 10:58 PM
Love the map!
Posted by: Paul Jacobson | May 05, 2007 at 11:53 AM