google voice dropping XMPP

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

David Rysdam <david at rysdam.org> writes:
>
> Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin at geekspace.com> writes:
> > And this all reminds me..., I liked this comment that I recently found,
> > by Daniel Bo <http://slashdot.org/journal/257448/why-so-much-nih>:
> >
> >    "I'm still confused as to why Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google don't
> >     agree amongst themselves to use their own services + XMPP + some
> >     plugins to openly replicate Facebook and immediately become big
> >     players in the social business. When your competition is eclipsing
> >     you like FB is, you need to start making some hard choices. There's
> >     no collusion if it's an open platform, right? Old and slow. Old and
> >     slow."
>
> In what field does FB compete with MS, Yahoo or Google? (And in what
> field does Yahoo compete at all?)

Believe it or not, I got a recruitment e-mail from *AOL*, the other day,
saying "AOL is looking for Developers who want to change the world."

Yahoo! may live in that same world. Apparently they own Tumblr,
and a whole bunch of stuff that I've never heard of:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Yahoo!

The Scheme hacker in me wants to read the trailing "!" as "destructively".
Interestingly, following the links to the Wikipedia pages for the
the most recent acquisitions in that list, articles for companies that Yahoo!
bought less than 6 months ago start with "$COMPANY was...".

-- 
I wish *I* was cool enough to have punctuation! in *my* name....