Microsoft Walks away from Yahoo

Microsoft has withdrawn its bid to buy Yahoo on 3rd May, Microsoft was willing to pay US$47.5 billion or US$33 per share, up from the bid's current value of US$29.40 per share, but Yahoo demanded at least US$53 billion or US$37 per share.

Here is the letter that Steve Ballmer wrote to Jerry Yang Microsoft Withdraws Proposal to Acquire Yahoo!

Choose a default photo for a place on ZoomIn

From today on, ZoomIn allows users to choose a default photo for their places. If you are the owner of a place , you have the power to let other users choose a default photo for your place.

Go and do it now, pick the most beautiful photos for your places!



I have been working on this for more than one day, it is pretty good experience for using RMagick and webistrano for deployment.

China becomes world's largest internet population

BEIJING - China has surpassed the United States to become the world's largest internet-using population, reaching 221 million by the end of February, state media said on Thursday.

The number of internet users in China was 210 million at the end of last year, only 5 million fewer than the US internet users then, Xinhua news agency said, quoting the China internet Network Information Centre.

"Despite a rapidly increasing internet population, the proportion of internet users among the total population was still lower than the global average level," Xinhua quoted the Information Ministry as saying.

Share ZoomIn Maps

Yesterday, I released the new feature of share ZoomIn maps, which allows user to embed maps on their websites, also enable users to customize the width and height of the iframe.

Here is an example, I'm using ZoomIn map to show Wellington CBD

Christiaan Postma clock

From JoeB in the UK …
http://www.christiaanpostma.nl/
Click on "clock" on the left, and then click on "3" in the bottom right, sit back and watch.