I am a source of buy-out inspiration for Internet big boys
As a friend of mine has pointed out:
It is becoming a bit tiresome to be a "buy-out inspiration for Google, Yahoo! and Amazon*", just look at the list of online services I use and count how many are now owned by one or the other.
Google-owned
Yahoo!-owned
Amazon eBay-owned
There's a few others that where independent when I started but have been bought by others:
And so, what's left that is truly independent:
* None by Microsoft - I see that as symptomatic of both my aversion to Microsoft because they're a "PC focussed company" and to their aversion to the true nature of the Web as they're a "PC focussed company"
Mike has a knack for picking and using burgeoning technology companies, but is getting a little tired of his favorites then becoming gobbled up by Google, Yahoo!, etc...
It is becoming a bit tiresome to be a "buy-out inspiration for Google, Yahoo! and Amazon*", just look at the list of online services I use and count how many are now owned by one or the other.
Google-owned
- Blogger - bought, however Google owned when I started using
- Gmail - Google built
- Google Docs - bought + Google built
- Google Calendar - Google bought, and to be fair I moved from 30Boxes
- Google Analytics - bought, however Google owned when I started using
- Feedburner - bought
- YouTube - bought
- iGoogle - Google built
- Google Reader - Google built
Yahoo!-owned
- Flickr - bought
- del.icio.us - bought
- MyBlogLog - bought
Amazon eBay-owned
- StumbleUpon - bought by Amazon
- Skype - bought by Amazon
There's a few others that where independent when I started but have been bought by others:
- Photobucket - bought by "MySpace"
- Talkr - bought by LiveOnTheNet.com (I just discovered)
And so, what's left that is truly independent:
- meebo
- Remember The Milk
- Feedblendr
- AllConsuming (30 Things/Places etc ...)
- Omnidrive
- Joost - although where's the backing for this coming from?
- WetPaint
- Snap
* None by Microsoft - I see that as symptomatic of both my aversion to Microsoft because they're a "PC focussed company" and to their aversion to the true nature of the Web as they're a "PC focussed company"
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