The Macalope Weekly: An appointment with disappointment

08.08.2010

This week there was ample evidence that Google’s sizing itself up to fill Microsoft’s oversized clown shoes. Waste a bunch of time, effort, and money on a half-baked technology only to hastily kill it? . Cut back-room deals that attempt to cement your monopoly status?

Wait, wait, wait, what happened to ?!

For its part, Google ’s piece, which says the search giant was attempting to make an agreement with Verizon to skirt net neutrality and get its content delivered faster.

@NYTimes is wrong. We’ve not had any convos with VZN about paying for carriage of our traffic. We remain committed to an open internet.

Hmm, that’s pretty good, but something seems off. Maybe it’s just Twitter’s 140-character limit that makes it seem a little weaselly. , however, is even worse.