Microsoft Web Plan takes aim at Google - via News.com

Now this may be what I wanted... Very exciting. It appears Scoble either did not know or was playing a masterful game of poker (okay - I am not sure how masterful, but it sounded better).  Here is another link (via Dare Obasanjo) worth checking out. I must say that while I am not entirely surprised because of the open Google release, this does appear to be a departure from previous actions. I do recall that in 2002/2003 there were plans to open up the system, but all of a sudden it closed up to only the IMLogic's of the world. Either way, 2+ years later, this could be good news for the developer.