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Some observers attribute the increased use of blogs and RSS to the mainstream news outfits developing more blogs and 'non-geeky' RSS reading aids, e.g., My Yahoo! "Technology has given consumers an option to tune businesses out, and tune each other in," said Forrester Research Director Chris Charron.
"On the flip side, technology has given businesses an opportunity to gain greater customer insights at a lower cost." techweb.com.
BACK AND Henry 'Internet bubble' Blodget.At internetoutsider.com is the blog of one of the notorious characters of the Internet bubble era.
He's Henry Blodget who was Merrill Lynch's Internet analyst at the zenith of the bubble and who was later disciplined over conflicts of interest.
In his first posting (05 October), he writes: "Despite ten years of effort, vast technological and financial resources, and a legendary intensity, Microsoft is running a distant third in the web wars (behind Google and Yahoo!
) - and it continues to fall farther behind.
Importantly, this is almost the same competitive position Microsoft occupied in 1995, when Yahoo!
was run out of a dorm room and Google didn't exist.
Microsoft was trying desperately to win the Internet war then, and it has tried desperately every year since.
And despite all its assets, the best it has been able to do is run a distant third." Why?
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