Well-known pundit and entrepreneur John Furrier has a new blog called siliconANGLE, which went live yesterday and which he said will be a “collaboration blog for friends and colleagues.”
The site will cover the social Web and also tech trends, but Furrier said it will try for “deeper” analysis of the news.
Here is a video I did while I was attending and liveblogging the Google launch of and press conference for its new “not-a-Windows-killer” Chrome browser, held at its Mountain View, Calif., HQ yesterday morning.
Google released its own software to navigate the Internet yesterday, setting itself up for yet another bruising competition with Microsoft.
See Googlers, snacks and more…
Maybe it would be easier to sell Facebook to Microsoft for billions and billions, even though it is not likely you will.
But, for the sake of argument, let’s take the opposing position about the best future for the hot social-networking site.
In other words, make a friendly Microsoft takeover of Facebook your own version of an IPO, as John Furrier has suggested, and walk away a Silicon Valley legend.
If wishes were horses, all Facebookers would ride!
But alas, even though BoomTown is also intrigued by the idea as much as tech bloggers Robert Scoble and John Furrier, Facebook is not about to be bought by Microsoft.
Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference.
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