yahoo looms large
Yahoo recently acquired del.icio.us and Flickr (ads are already starting to appear… sigh.), AND this morning I sit down to a message that konfabulator is also now also part of the Yahoo empire. This is okay, I suppose, as long as they don't bundle a bunch of s**t with the downloads as they do with their IM client. I am annoyed enough that when I downloaded the update, it erased all my settings and it took me a full ten minutes to figure out how to set the location. It's 0 degrees (why '0 degrees' = plural and '1 degree' = singular?) here this morning and I don't much need to know what it is in Palo Alto, thank you very much… I can't feel my toes. Anyway, I know I shouldn't be surprised, but one of the things I kind of liked about the social software movement was that it was so grassroots - I suppose it will continue to be by it's very nature, but… you know… I'm a librarian too… I hate change; expecially when I have no control over it.
