(Editor’s Note: Sorry for the delays in writing in here. Now that finals are over, and school is not an issue, updates should be more frequent.)
I just took a look at the last few days news on /. and I only really had one thought come to my brain: Google is whoring itself out to anyone that will stick their e-penis in it. I mean look at it. Google’s wanting to buy Opera. Google wants a stake in the floundering AOL. Google and Microsoft are funding projects together. I mean, who has Google not tried to cozy up in bed with to get things done? You look at it and you can’t help to think that Google is trying to take over it all, one small step at a time until you realize they have their hands in all the cookie jars and are devouring the contents en masse, just working to fatten their own belly. Will they eventually run out of cookies?
In other, semi-related news, Yahoo seems to be doing the same thing. But rather than just nudging their way in to these markets on the web, they come in, guns blazing, and just buy out whomever tickles their fancy. First, Konfabulator fell, then Del.icio.us, and now Flickr. These aren’t the only services to go this way. From a great comment post at /.: “So how long until Yahoo changes their name from Del.icio.us to “Yahoo Social Bookmarking Service”, just like they changed Konfabulator to “Yahoo Widget Engine”, Oddpost to “Yahoo Mail” and Launch.com to “Yahoo Music”…?”
What I’m trying to say here is that the web is all coming together. Only this time, it’s not MSN/Microsoft leading the charge to bring you that one-stop web portal that has everything under the sun attached to it. I believe what we are going to see when it is all done is the true emergence of Web 2.0 and all the glory that it will bring to the internet. This is just the infancy of 2.0 / death of 1.0 that we are running into at this point and time on the World Wide Web. Let’s just hope that we don’t run this all into the ground.