I Knew It Seemed Familiar
Posted on February 4, 2008
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Obviously the world is abuzz with Microsoft’s attempt to purchase Yahoo! for that crazy figure that does not compute. I don’t know if it’s a good idea or a bad idea, to me it seems like two companies who’s products I don’t use turning into one company who’s products I don’t use.
But I couldn’t shake this vague feeling that I’d seen this scenario before…. some sort of game in which monied entities move about buying up small sets of properties, amassing more and more, paying fines, hoping for luck, until but one is left standing….
The first web bubble was pet food and greed under the pretend guise of a new era in human development. Thankfully the second web bubble isn’t that, it isn’t even real business. It’s just the world’s biggest game of Monopoly!
I suspect some time about four years ago the Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and Apple folks were all sitting around drunk, giggling about who’s bank account ran the most lines of zero’s, when someone (I suspect it might have been Brin) said “C’mon, let’s play. Let’s play for real!” and then promptly went out and bought Picassa, the Baltic Avenue of the web world. (At which point Apple said “You’re all a bunch of losers and none of you understand me anyway!” and sulked off into the basement to riff on their semi-acoustic in a pot-haze).
Alas, it does appear that Google is still holding Boardwalk and Park Place and they’re fully loaded to bear. Good luck Microhoo.
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