Silicon Valley Damashii, or, the Yahoo! endgame
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So it appears (though it is still a rumor) that Yahoo! is all set to acquire Digg.
Why is Yahoo! buying up all these niche websites?
You may notice that the dsandler.org layout has changed slightly; I finally dispensed with the proportional margins (8%, to be exact) and went with a fixed 32-pixel gutter. This should eliminate the weird off-by-one-pixel rendering errors in some browsers, and also allow me a little more elbow-room in the text region over here. I’m not, as a rule, a fan of long lines of text; there’s a reason newspaper columns are as skinny as they are. But this isn’t a newspaper, and occasionally I have graphics or <pre>-formatted sections that just need that extra bit of space.
Feel free to complain in the comments section.
I just talked to a guy whose opinion of Google can be summed up thusly: “‘Don’t be evil’ is exactly what a really evil person would say.” I couldn’t really find a good rebuttal.
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