Category: Web Gossip

What a surprise! Just a few weeks after launching the first update to Internet Explorer in years, Microsoft has announced that it has purchased Firefox from the Mozilla foundation. Bill Gates says that this is part of Microsoft’s plan to open source all of their software and move towards an MS Linux 2007 platform. :-)

Yahoo has pulled it’s trip planner out of beta. This site is a really interesting mashup of internal Yahoo products. It uses Maps, Flickr, Travel Content and 360 for blogging. Too bad they didn’t use the cool FLEX interface for maps.

Today I added links to some of the IA, UX, and design sites I read regularly, many of which I’ve gleaned links and content from in the past. They are listed in the blog’s sidebar under the heading “Blogroll” and contain many blogs, and a few web magazine and link aggregators.

When arriving at work today I saw a large crane removing the Siebel sign from atop our neighbor’s building. Unfortunately I remembered to take a picture just after the sign was hidden from view behind the truck. Siebel was officially integrated into Oracle on June 1, 2006