Just Thinking Out Loud!

Just an immigrant in US with a positive attitude towards life. Here thinking out loud about sex, Nigeria, love, friendship, religion, spritiuality, family, history, mistakes, DJing, gadgets, sports, credit, technology, hobbies, politics, Africa, jokes, relationships, gadgets, finances, money, investments, Nigerians in the diaspora and so on and so forth.

Some 2K10 Goals by God's special grace n power
  • Paint entire house
  • Set up entire downstairs including garage
  • Reduce credit card debt by at least $2k
  • Pay off any miscellaneous debt
  • Most definitely get into a committed relationship
  • Most definitely send money to mom for a new car
  • Take time to develop relationships
  • At least, 2 patents
  • Aggresively work on developing iPhone App dev skills
  • Create a webpage for DJing
  • Expand my career breadth
  • Visit London
  • Join Toastmasters
  • Create a will and a Power of Attorney 4 Healthcare
  • Take complete control of soda drinking
  • Work on taking a CPR class
SO, HELP ME GOD!
Some 2K7 Goals by God's special grace n power
  • Finally buy some Nyja stocks
  • Get a loaded Thinkpad or Sony Vaio
  • Join MentorPlace n consistently mentor
  • Put at least $2K in stocks apart from investment club contr. & 401k
  • Take complete control of coffee
SO, HELP ME GOD!
Some 2K6 Goals by God's grace
  • Have a white paper published
  • Work on increasing pay
  • Get to the next band at work
  • Help renovate mom's place
  • Give mom n bro at least $*K each for wedding
  • Finally visit Nyja!!!
  • Take a real estate class
My Videos
Go Getta. R. Kelly
Music I'm Feeling...
  • 2Face
  • Ebenezer Obey
  • KWAM 1
  • Cassandra Wilson
  • Pharell
  • Ne-Yo
  • T.O.K
  • Don Moen
  • D4L
  • Teddy Pendergrass
  • ColdPlay
  • DMB
  • Notorious B.I.G
  • Delirious
  • Dem Franchise Boyz
  • Frank Sinatra
  • Evanescence
  • All-American Rejects
  • Billie Holiday
  • Seal
  • Obesere
  • KEM
Books I'm reading...
  • Zero Debt
  • The Millionaire Next Door
  • The Street Lawyer
  • African Women: Three Generations
  • Communication, Sex & Money
  • The J2EE Tutorial
Cities I Have Visited
  • ATL, GA
  • Austin,TX
  • Detroit, MI
  • Houston, TX
  • Charlotte, NC
  • Corning, NY
  • NYC, NY
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Google fear
What is this I hear about MS at the negotiation table for eBay? Wow! Rumor has it that the Big Bill is working on buying eBay in order to strengthen MS' internet portfolio. All in fear of the growing mammoth - Google.

I think MS is beginning to recognize its new Daddy and scrambling to keep afloat in the internet space with all the so-called LiveSearch, Windows Vista, Live Messenger, Live this and Live that. Their latest catch is now eBay. Wow! They definitely want to somehow "Live" in the e-space.

But my own thing is how far do they want to extend their monopoly? I mean eBay? They want to monopolize the auction world too? Just like they did with the OS world and thought they had achieved with Hotmail but thanks to the phenomenally user-friendly Gmail.

To be frank, I really don't see how eBay fits into MS' product base, though I can imagine them integrating Skype (eBay's new baby) into their monopolized OS - Windows - which might actually spread the Skype gospel farther than we can imagine. However, I just don't see how eBay fits into MSN.

And my greatest fear is that MS will somehow corrupt the openness of eBay with its proprietary habits. Before you know it, eBay will only work on IE and Windows OS! Hey, it's MS...these guys can make anything proprietary in no time.

It's obvious that this move is due to Google fear. I just hope Pierre Omidyar, Meg Whitman and the rest of them won't let the love of money (which we all have anwyayz cos the deal will be worth billions and billions of dollars if it happens) won't let them fall for this BS move...
posted by Just Thinking Out Loud! @ 11:48 AM  
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