Yesterday, BoomTown wrote about AOL’s efforts–including hiring investment bankers–to sell its ICQ instant-messaging unit.

But that’s probably not going to be the end of the shedding of assets at the online site.

In fact, according to sources inside and outside AOL, one of the next candidates for sale could be its MapQuest online map service.

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It certainly is good to see Microsoft working the innovation thing, especially in the consumer space with its Bing search service.

The ultimate goal is to gain market share for Bing, from striking deals with hotter companies like Twitter and Facebook to doing a massive advertising and marketing campaign to making constant feature upgrades.

This is one of those weeks for Bing, with the launch of a spate of new features that show a lot of chutzpah.

But whether all this will spell significant changes in market share compared to dominant rival Google is still an open question.

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Oh, BoomTown loves a delicious irony.

Kevin Johnson–who yesterday announced he was leaving his job as president of Platform and Services Division at Microsoft to become CEO of the network infrastructure company, Juniper Networks–was the point person on the software giant’s failed bid to acquire Yahoo.

Unfortunately, Yahoo’s CEO Jerry Yang rejected him and the rest of the Microsoft team over and over again in a very public fashion.

But who will be Johnson’s most immediate Internet neighbor be when he takes up residence, presumably at Juniper’s Sunnyvale, California, headquarters at 1194 North Mathilda Ave.?

Um, Yang!

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