Two articles about Microsoft. The first one "Architecture astronauts take over", is about Live Mesh, and the other is on the failure of the .NET platform to attract top developers.

[Update: Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb expands on my thoughts in this post about the many useful Yahoo apps we can still enjoy.] I woke up this morning, at the other side of the pond, to the news that Microsoft had walked away from its offer to buy Yahoo. Apparently Microsoft had increased its offer by $4 a share to $33, but Jerry [...]

A comprehensive study of the various definitions of Web 3.0 that people have used in the past, including the Semantic, Mobile, Implicit and the proposed Distributed Web.

Data is presented on the number of blog posts per month that mention the term "Web 3.0", from the first mention found in October 2004 to present time. An all-time high was found in October 2007.