My main thoughts post watching:

Google Wave is the greatest mass web application to hit us since email.

It truly is what email would be if it were invented today.

Let me know your thoughts!

With Internet Explorer being the default browser of almost all PCs, the default homepage Internet Explorer sent people to was Microsoft's MSN. This homepage had a big bar at the top with the word SEARCH beside it for people to search from MSN.

This means for people to get to Google, they physically had to type google.com into the URL bar. Stats show they did this despite their first port of call being Microsoft's offering.

Other advantages include the fact that Microsoft's Hotmail free email product and its Messenger live chat product were by far and away global market leaders. And Microsoft made dozens of attempts to lead people to their MSN search offering on many occasions.

But stats show people always left and went to Google. They did so at their own accord.

Of course Google advertised well to get the message out that they are a tremendous search engine. But in the end, people made Google their port of call for search.

The reason this occurred, and has continued to occur despite MSN re-releases, re-brandings, alliances, etc... is because Microsoft search is inferior to Google search.

Coming to Bing... best case scenario will be that Bing is as good as Google. How will Microsoft reclaim their lost audience?

I don't think they can. If they take a slice of the market, it will again prove insignificant against Google's growing empire.

Personally, I'm not a fan of a monopoly and love competition in a marketplace.

But at the end of the day, we're not talking Coles and Woolworths who sell the exact same stuff.

We are talking two search engines, one of which has been highly inferior until now.

Until a like product is introduced to the market, then mass-marketed to searchers, Google will remain in its own league as an internet search monopoly.

I completely agree. Simply said, internet is too slow in Australia. Most people won't know the difference until they experience it. Spend our money, speed it up, then let's see who will complain. Let's see who will call for studies then.

Nobody.

He was quoted by Fairfax competitor SMH: "There is no doubt that the traditional newspaper model has to change... classified revenues are undoubtedly migrating to the web, probably not to return."

The reason classified revenue is migrating to the web is because that is where the audience prefers to read your newspapers Mr. Murdoch. And why the web? Ummmm... maybe because it is a very accessible source... Part of its accessible allure is that internet news is free!

Murdoch is further quoted by SMH as using the success of The Wall Street Journal as reasoning that charging a 'subscription' for online content could work.

"That it is possible to charge for content on the web is obvious from the Journal's experience...," says the News Limited dynamo.

He is obviously not as stupid as he sounds, but Mr. Murdoch must surely be aware that the content of The Wall Street Journal, and even Australia's Crikey.com.au for that matter, is very different from the diatribe in his newspaper offerings like The Daily Telegraph and the Herald Sun.

The Journal and Crikey offer original content - essays and commentary that is different to 'this happened and this was said' news.

If Murdoch goes down this path, he will most definitely add this online investment to News Limited's 'failed' list. It will be met with opposition from internet enthusiasts, while his competitors over at Fairfax will become the ultimate beneficiaries.

Driving to work listening to ABC Newsradio, I heard that U.S President Barack Obama delivered a speech at the White House Correspondents Dinner that had the audience in stitches. ABC provided a snippet of the address, where Obama pokes fun at life in Washington.

As I arrived in work, I opened up YouTube and searched Obama, and it came up with the video of the entire speech in two very funny parts.

OBAMA PART 1/2

OBAMA PART 2/2

While watching these, I saw on the right 'RELATED VIDEOS' section that one of my favourite stand-up comics - Wanda Sykes - also had an outing at the same dinner. I clicked through and watched something even funnier than what Obama himself managed to produce!

WANDA SYKES PART 1/2

WANDA SYKES PART 2/2