Curiouser and Curiouser! on yahoo http://matt.blogs.it/ RSS feed for topic yahoo Copyright 2006 Matt Mower Squib/0.1 self@mattmower.com self@mattmower.com en-gb Boycotting Y! and MSN Fri, 19 Sep 2003 13:25:11 +0100 <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <P><A href="http://www.henshall.com/blog/archives/000392.html">Yahoo to Lock out Trillian</A>. Yahoo makes a fatal blunder in following Microsoft to lock out Trillian users. Yahoo is responding to its current competitive definitions rather that thinking forward strategically. Trillians error is just the type of strategy advice I was given yesterday. [<A href="http://www.henshall.com/blog/">Unbound Spiral</A>]</P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>This sucks.</P> <P>Yahoo! and MSN both blocking 3rd party clients?&nbsp; Unless Cerulean Studios can work around this as they have before then I shall be boycotting both those networks from Sep 24th and Oct 15th respectively.</P> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00001632.html Whose the nimrod now? Fri, 19 Sep 2003 20:17:22 +0100 <P>Following up on my previous post about MSN messenger and Trillian it looks like I was wrong which, I guess, makes me the nimrod in this case.</P> <P>If Microsoft are providing a way for any client to integrate properly with the MSN infrastructure and simply charging users for using their infrastructure then I have no complaint (provided the charge is reasonable).&nbsp; As to the argument about it being free using MSN but not free using a 3rd party client well I guess Microsoft must be getting something back by users using the MSN client.</P> <P>In this light Microsoft's approach seems better than that of either Yahoo or AOL who both seem intent on destroying the idea of vendor neutral IM.</P> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00001639.html