{"id":6,"date":"2008-02-01T16:20:26","date_gmt":"2008-02-01T16:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/?p=6"},"modified":"2008-02-20T20:48:23","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T20:48:23","slug":"i-guess-thatll-mean-less-usernames-and-passwords-to-remember","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/i-guess-thatll-mean-less-usernames-and-passwords-to-remember\/","title":{"rendered":"I guess that&#8217;ll mean less usernames and passwords to remember&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/reuters\/business\/business-yahoo-microsoft-takeover.html?_r=2&amp;hp&amp;oref=slogin&amp;oref=slogin\">MS makes a bid for Yahoo &#8211; $45 billion.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sounds like good news to me as a consumer&#8230; It&#8217;s sad to see one of the original web pioneers absorbed (I still remember when the IMDB was still hosted at Cardiff University), but Yahoo has kinda lost it&#8217;s way and MS and Yahoo combined would pose pretty strong opposition for Google.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Putting aside the advertising side of things, Yahoo could be a great addition to the &#8216;Live&#8217; side of MS, for example the prospect of Flickr and Photosynth coming together would be incredibly exciting.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/c.services.spaces.live.com\/CollectionWebService\/c.gif?cid=-5906009894435157610&amp;page=RSS%3a+I+guess+that'll+mean+less+usernames+and+passwords+to+remember...&amp;referrer=\" height=\"1\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"0px\" src=\"http:\/\/c.live.com\/c.gif?NC=31263&amp;NA=1149&amp;PI=73329&amp;RF=&amp;DI=3919&amp;PS=85545&amp;TP=tombasham.spaces.live.com&amp;GT1=tombasham\" height=\"0px\" style=\"position: absolute\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MS makes a bid for Yahoo &#8211; $45 billion.\u00a0 Sounds like good news to me as a consumer&#8230; It&#8217;s sad to see one of the original web pioneers absorbed (I still remember when the IMDB was still hosted at Cardiff University), but Yahoo has kinda lost it&#8217;s way and MS and Yahoo combined would pose &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/2008\/02\/01\/i-guess-thatll-mean-less-usernames-and-passwords-to-remember\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I guess that&#8217;ll mean less usernames and passwords to remember&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6,4],"tags":[21,20,13,14],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ms","category-tech","category-work","tag-google","tag-imdb","tag-microsoft","tag-yahoo","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/refraction.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}