It's about preserving the underlying principles of the Internet: openness and innovation.
The post discusses proprietary monopolies, unfair practices/regulatory issues (as Microsoft has had to deal with in the past), etc. Drummond goes on to say:
Could a combination of the two take advantage of a PC software monopoly to unfairly limit the ability of consumers to freely access competitors' email, IM, and web-based services? Policymakers around the world need to ask these questions -- and consumers deserve satisfying answers.
Drummond points out that between MS and Yahoo, you have, "an overwhelming share of instant messaging and web email accounts." Rare that you read Google publicly using words like this especially since they offer and continue to develop and grow their own webmail (Gmail) and messenging (GTalk) tools. So why this public statement? The Wall Street Journal (subs only) has more.
From the article:
One person close to Google said it was concerned that there would be nothing to stop Microsoft, for example, from making Microsoft/Yahoo instant messaging services the first thing a consumer saw when they booted up their computer running Microsoft's Windows operating system or its Office productivity software.
Recently, Google has dealt with their own regulatory issues in the United States regarding their acquisition of DoubleClick advertising (the deal was recently approved by the FTC). They continue to deal with antitrust issues in Europe.
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Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
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The fallacy of information overload
Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure? 
