TheUniversityKid has a great offer on where if you give him a link back he’ll give you a 125×125 banner in a rotation of 10 for one month provided you meet his requirements. So I couldn’t refuse and gave him a linkback to get my advertisement in rotation on his blog and with that in mind I also need to catch up with him for an updated interview to see how he’s going on the 15k challenge…so look forward to that soon :).

Another thing is that Microsoft are trying to acquire Yahoo! in a deal that for one thing I’m not really convinced about. At $31 a share or $44.6 Billion Yahoo! is overpriced considering its a massive 62% premium on their actual value. If I was a shareholder in Yahoo! then I’d be extremely happy at this time considering this amazing offer but if I were a Microsoft one I would be concerned about their strategy considering Yahoo’s recent failures including Yahoo 360 and may more…if anything Microsoft should be trying to acquire services which Google are trying too. Since recently they are acquiring more robust and reliable services i.e. DoubleClick (still pending) which if anything Microsoft should have tried harder to acquire.

The moral is Microsoft don’t want to be in 3rd place in the online search engine and want to challenge Google’s monopoly and by acquiring Yahoo! they feel that they would have a chance to do so. However, I don’t see them actually improving their market position by the acquisition since Yahoo! are a failing company loosing their market share on a consistent basis and have yet to reveal how they intend to challenge Google in trying to regain it and a combined Microsoft Yahoo! partnership would still only have 33% of the market something which Google eclipses by far. If Microsoft want to be considered as serious online contenders then they should save their $44.6 Billion and invest about half of that improving their own search engine, acquiring other web ventures and growing search engines i.e. Mahalo for example, this would see them not only save money in the long run but also increase market share without trying to recover a failing business in Yahoo! and since they recorded record profits but still lost on their online arm Microsoft don’t want to add Yahoo’s worries to their online concerns.

I’m also going to throw a small contest in the build up to a larger contest later in the year (as I’m going to try and get alot of large prizes thrown in for you guys). However, my small contest so to speak will be worth a couple of hundred bucks or so, so make sure you look out for it and enter :).

Finally you’ll notice the blogs had a slight change again, although most have you have said it looks much better there are still some tweaks I feel it needs to turn it into a decent blog design to go with the ever increasing content and community here and the fact that the advertising rates have slightly changed with a new slot or two being introduced shortly due to the nature of the growth and increasing request for a couple of certain advertisement slots of potential advertisers and not forgetting that I’ve had a decline in blog post’s don’t worry they’ll be back on the rise with potentially a couple of guest posters coming over here to give you guys a couple of useful tips in the near future.

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