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Hmmm. So Google might buy Feedburner. I enjoy using Feedburner; I’ve had no problems so far. It makes some sense that Google would like to get AdSense on blog feeds, and incorporate it as a service for Blogger.
Meanwhile, Duncan Riley over at TechCrunch speculates that they will also purchase Facebook. Probably the best argument for the latter is that it would get Google back into social networking to compete with MySpace, and photo sharing to compete with Flickr.
Lastly, Cringley compares the Google spending / buying spree to the Cold War, and how Reagan outspent the Soviets into oblivion. Microsoft is the stand-in for the Soviet Union. Now a bit of computer history; remember how Microsoft won the browser war with Netscape by giving Internet Explorer away for free? My how times have changed and the tables turned.
It just leads me to wonder, what other services do I use regularly that Google might buy? Technorati? Twitter? Yahoo!? WordPress? Joost?
What’s left? It seems like everything Web 2.0 is for sale. I’ll just reiterate my earlier wish: buy whatever you want… except Apple, please.
Note: ParisLemon thinks that Facebook might try an IPO instead, and Mike Arrington agrees (he considers it a matter of ego). Seems nutty, but consider how the DOW keeps hitting new highs. If Facebook does a successful IPO, I’d consider it huge news and open the door wide open for other Web 2.0 IPOs, just as YouTube did for acquisitions. Read more about Facebook here.
Feeling boomy yet?
Disclosure: I own a tiny amount of Apple stock.
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