When reading blogs, it is hard to know if the posts or articles you read are reliable, or trustworthy. Techcrunch has a post on NewsCred, a site currently in private beta, which aims to clear up who is credible and who’s talking trash online.

Right now NewsCred behaves like a mix between a news aggregator and Digg. Users can pick from a number of major news sources to customize their main feeds, or they can sort sources by credibility. After clicking on a story, users can choose to either “Credit” or “Discredit” the author or the article itself. These ratings are averaged across all users to determine the trustworthiness of each article, author, and publication.

I am not in favor of a system like this. Newscred is not actually doing anything to clear this up, but leaves it to their audience, meaning that others will tell me if I am a credible author or not. Excuse me?? Yes, you have read it right. So why don’t we simply use digg and say that if you get a certain number of diggs, you are a trustworthy author?

Because that wouldn’t be fair. And so is NewsCred. Nice initiative, not realistic.

Although Microsoft claims to have said goodbye to takeovers, latest rumor around the Redmond mogul is a possible interest in Facebook. Oh my god. In order to prevent damage to my reputation and career, I hurried over to the facebook site to remove my account, but I guess I’m too late:

Yeah, sure.

As not much of what MS claims seems to be actually true (that also counts for the way MS has dealt with competition in the past), I am afraid this will be the new scenario:

• Microsoft takes over Yahoo after all at a very competitive price
• Microsoft takes over Facebook and LinkedIn and has someone else integrate the three (MS surely can’t do it, haha)
• The whole is renamed to *livesomething

End result: Our reputations damaged, our names sold and everyone is pushed to use windows in an evil way.

The only thing missing is the MS designed parasite that will takeover our bodies, all in the name of health protection, a product of MS Health….

The only one who can save us is Google.

Where Yahoo (the company) doesn’t want to have anything to do with Microsoft (who blames ‘em), the shareholders come in. Why? For the money obviously. I kinda suspected this was going to happen.

Probably even the rumors about Steve Ballmer leaving are not true, damn. So now it is a matter of time before Yahoo mail gets littered with *live* mail, which is either broken or a security risk, and the Yahoo messenger will be slashed by the crap communicator MS has produced.

There can be only one winner here: Google. Mark my words.