a pretty interesting and import weekend coming up . What happens if the deal is struck ?

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The tussle between Google yahoo and Microsoft for their space on their internet took a new turn with live maps becoming so much better (yeah even better than the google i will say ) .

Directions was something that did come in Google long ago ,Yahoo added to its yahoo maps recently but of all these i find Live Maps most attractive (UI and its tips ) ,the color changes from old live maps have been explained and also what comes as surprise is the traffic parameter that has been taken in calculation the shortest_distance/shortest_path .

Whats added is also simultaneous search by business and people ( didn’t try anything though ) yahoo maps comes closest to these features but microsoft with its huge bag full of money and intention to make its space in the internet we could see some serious competition .

Silverlight platform for RIA looks great from microsoft too ,name tafiti it shows the power of silverlight. And we all know of microsofts interest in facebook ( evaluating it for close to $16bn ,i doubt if anything comes even anything closer to facebook apart from myspace .even orkut has less traffic from us ) .

Yahoo has its Mash beta ,but its a bit too early for anyone to get addicted to it ,i find very little reasons to login to it .And even strange is havig a pet and do some actions on it ( feed it,kill it ).But yes the prospect of what might be still coming is worth waiting .At the moment i think facebook is really really nice,not letting strangers get anywhere close to you unlike in orkut where anyone can scrap you and it has become full of spammers ! .

hopefully mash will be lot better than Orkut ! :-)

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