Partnership: MSN News

[foxfirefey]

A follow up to ads in emails is integration of MSN links into the new Explore area as talked about in the latest news post.

Of course, today there was an explosion of news about Microsoft's bid to buy Yahoo. And, while Valleywag should always be taken with salted fried salt, they suspect it would lead to a sale of MSNBC.com, because due to

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[zorkfox]

Microsoft will probably try to work out a new deal with NBC. Just a guess. But they're power-hungry and scared of Google, so it wouldn't be in keeping with their recent moves to suddenly amputate a limb.

[foxfirefey]

I'm not sure how they'll go about integrating with Yahoo!. The two have so many competing properties. If I was on Flickr, I'd be worried most to death about how MS plans to deal with the service.

[zorkfox]

I have a Flickr account, but only for communication with other people who use it. I keep most of my pictures on Scrapbook. (I used to have a bunch on GreatestJournal before Scrapbook was out of beta testing, but they seem to have deleted them. Sigh.)