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A Year of Starting Over Digitally

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Logged into my oldest email account which I no longer use, and apparently everything was deleted: drafts, sents, everything. Well then.

Yahoo deleting my oldest email inbox (and possibly my late aunt’s) just really caps off how I’ve felt about the last year. Clearing out a long digital history from earlier in my life pre-college, partly because of circumstances outside of my control.

Facebook because of Zuckerberg. Twitter because of Musk. Yahoo because I was not told that Yahoo deletes your inbox contents after 12 months of inactivity.

LinkedIn, at least, was fully in my control.

I didn’t need any of it. But I regret that so much was deleted without my consent.

Yahoo Groups: the real reason why MS wants Yahoo so badly?

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Consider for a second how Microsoft has migrated most of its MSN-branded services to the Windows Live brand (MSN Hotmail = Windows Live Hotmail, MSN Spaces = Windows Live Spaces, MSN Messenger = Windows Live Messenger), but has not touched its MSN Groups service since 2006, when the “unprofitable” MSN Chat service was shut down.

In fact, it mostly looks the same as it did back in 2003, when the homepage was changed from a mostly blue color to its current purple facade.

Meanwhile, Yahoo! Groups, which has historically been the largest web-based e-group service, has not made much improvement to its service in recent years. However, it has made paltry, barely-incremental improvements over the years in comparison to the moribund MSN Groups service. Furthermore, Yahoo! Groups has a very poor search function, but it is much better in returns than MSN Groups’ search function.

I think, in that case, that Yahoo! Groups may be one of the prize properties that Microsoft may want to add to its roster of services, primarily for sheer volume of members and ad revenue.

Thoughts on Yahoo Messenger (for PC and Mobile)

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OK, so with Yahoo’s upcoming Messenger 7.5, the company that has an appetite in buying every company under the sun (they just bought del.icio.us, even though they already have their own social bookmarking service……whuh?) is now actually trying to compete with someone other than Google: Skype, the thrilla from Scandinavia that has claimed over 3 million casualties worldwide (OMG, and a video to testify to the mayhem! I’ll show it to you all as soon as I can find the URL). Unfortunately, neither Skype nor the present VoYM can work for me under these conditions, as both I and androgynism found out on Friday.

What exactly to expect from Messenger 7.5?

1. Interoperability with MSN/Windows Live Messenger

2. Net2Phone: the (supposed) Skype-killer.

And probably not much else.

And then I go on a long rant…