Comments on: How Microsoft-Yahoo could shape social networking

Don't expect to see Microsoft-Yahoo trying to create the next MySpace. They're going to try to stake a claim to the ad market instead.

[krosavcheg]

Innaccurate headline

The potential merger may influence how companies make money off of social networking, but to imply that it will change social network itself-- how users interact and communicate --is questionable at best. This won't mean diddly to the average Facebook , MySpace, Friendster, LinkedIn, Orkut, whatever user. *Yawn* Nothing innovative has come out of Microsoft and Yahoo since... ever! These companies are foundering and have to resort to buying smaller companies that DO innovate in order to justify their existence. Microsoft is a dinosaur and this merger is it's last, sad roar.

[JCPayne]

Not necc. Yahoo Clubs was killed when EGroups.com

was purchased by Yahoo. Yahoo killed clubs and merged parts of it with EGroups.com...

Microsoft might kill Live.com or something like that or parts of Yahoo to merge those together and in the end people will probably defect because the separate services they grew to love would no longer be what they initially fell in love with.

[JCPayne]

Also when MSN-Canada sought to merge with www.Sympatico.ca

They did the same thing... Killed off Sympatica.ca's website (Which was owned by Bell Canada.) and they just sent all the traffic to MSN.ca...

Yahoo would likely no longer exist after Microsoft was done. It would likely just forward to msn.com etc.