The Jeff Pulver Blog: This week in my corner of the Blogosphere:

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October 15, 2005

This week in my corner of the Blogosphere:

This past week news and commentary about Yahoo! and Microsoft connecting their IM Networks was the common thread across a number of the blogs that I read including: Andy Abramson, Andy Abramson #2, Peter Saint-André, David Daniels, Om Malik, Alec Saunders, Russel Shaw.

Oh, and I also had a word or two to share. While they talk about connecting 185 (MSN) + 82.1 (Y!) million accounts what we don't know is how many unique people this represents both on a individual network basis and then when these two networks are combined, as well as how many of these accounts have been active during the past three to six months. This is a significant announcement on all accounts but I prefer a grounded reality when it comes to the accounting for the combined reach. Also, I understand that MSN and Yahoo! will be using SIP/SIMPLE to interconnect their server domains.

The BIG issue on my mind this week was my: WARNING: The FCC Extends CALEA's reach to the Internet which: Andy Abramson, Jon Arnold, James Enck, Aswath Rao, Alec Saunders, Richard Stastny, techdirt, and Kevin Werbach commented on. Since this isn't an issue that is going away anytime soon, I do hope to hear from other members of the blogosphere on this topic.

(10/16 edits: added Aswath Rao, Richard Stastny, Andy Abramson, techdirt)

I also enjoyed reading Martin Geddes' Gopher 2.0 Conference Announcement and Tom Evslin's discussion of "Bubble 2.0 – The Long Tail of Supply."

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