Moving to the Cloud (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog).
I really hope Yahoo! can keep the wheels rolling. They are doing some really good things.
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Yahoo and Web 3.0
Posted by tom.altman on October 21st, 2008
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I recieved a shared reader item yesterday from a guy I know in Chicago, Noel – it was called “The Future of Web 3.0 According to Yahoo!“ I’m not sure what it is about Yahoo, but it seems like I’ll never not like them. I think it has to do with them being to big daddy when I first got into the web stuff 10+ years ago, but I no matter what, it seems I always try to do right by them.
The article is basically promoting the “new and innovative” things they are doing. Probably spin on the layoffs that are rumored for them in the near future. Either way the opening sentance caught my eye:
At the Web 3.0 Conference and Expo in Santa Clara today, Dave Beckett (principal software architect at Yahoo!) and Tom Hughes-Croucher (technical evangelist, Yahoo! Developer Network), answered questions about the recent consumer release of Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS) and discussed the company’s future plans to open up almost everything.
With real focus on the last line “the company’s future plans to open up almost everything“. Man, this is a bold statement. I think it has to be a bit risky at the same time. If they do this – it will be very interesting to see how they do. I can only assume they goal here is to create more and more traffic.
When you think about it – there are really two ways to make money on the web. You either “charge” or ask for a subscription. This could be a formal, walled garden approach or even just the classic “donate” paypal button. Or, you use banner ads. Now these ads may take on many forms, graphical, text, attached to a newsletter or wahtever…but that’s it.
So, we’ll have to wait and see how they do – you know I’ll be pulling for them, I always do! 
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Comments OffMicro-hoo – It's Yahoo, hot-hot-hot – BrowserPlus
Posted by tom.altman on April 20th, 2008
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I’ve been following the whole Microsoft/Yahoo thing along with everyone and have really kept my opinions to myself – but when I saw this post over at Ajaxia – “Yahoo! BrowserPlus: The rumour is true”
Awhile back I heard a rumour that Yahoo! had a “Gears-like” project that was cancelled. I thought this was a shame, as having Yahoo! pushing the browser would be a great thing, and I wished that we could all join forces and push together.
It turns out the rumour is true, and even better, the project has survived. Skylar Woodward of Brickhouse talks a little about it on his blog:
I just thing it is time for Microsoft to buy Yahoo! – they need to do this before anyone figures out that Yahoo! is hot-hot-hot. I mean seriously – I hear is how great Google is because of Google gears and then Yahoo! pulls out a decent competitor.
Why Microsoft+Yahoo Won’t Fly.
Posted by tom.altman on February 12th, 2008
This is a very well written article that explores some insight others may not have:
Here’s a case where I think everyone else has got it wrong. The media seems to be positioning Microsoft’s hostile takeover of Yahoo as an admission on the part of Microsoft that they’ve lost their competitive edge. And Google, clearly worried, is making anti-trust noises, claiming that the proposed merger would destroy market competition. Both positions are utterly absurd, in my view.
He makes some great points why he feels this deal will fail – but makes it clear that many are not pointing to the things he is.
Is Google scared of the Microsoft/Yahoo deal?
Posted by tom.altman on February 4th, 2008
Take a look at the blog post over at the Google blog:
Could the acquisition of Yahoo! allow Microsoft — despite its legacy of serious legal and regulatory offenses — to extend unfair practices from browsers and operating systems to the Internet? In addition, Microsoft plus Yahoo! equals an overwhelming share of instant messaging and web email accounts. And between them, the two companies operate the two most heavily trafficked portals on the Internet. 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.
It sure seems if Google thinks they could crush them they would encourage the transaction.
Yahoo! Debuts Real Estate Portal
Posted by tom.altman on January 14th, 2008
The Web giant has announced the launch of a new website, dubbed Yahoo! Real Estate, which, if one cannot divine is purpose from its title, is where big-name realtors and independent, for-sale-by-owner types alike can go to display their A-frames and McMansions to be considered as new homes for those with better credit and way less debt than their previous occupants.
It's the "Brick-House"
Posted by tom.altman on September 21st, 2007
Yahoo is still cool in my book. These guys are like the little nerd kid on the playground. You always see them getting the crap beat out of – but no matter what they do or say – you still love them.
Here is a cool interview with Salim Ismail of the Yahoo Brickhouse.
Top 25 sites – sometimes cool :)
Posted by tom.altman on July 30th, 2007
It’s a love/hate relationship. These top (insert random number here) sites list can get out of control. Sometimes it looks like these websites are saying “Hey, look at me, we know what is cool. Let us prove it by tell you the coolest sites we know about.” Sometimes you want to say, if you know about it – it’s probably not cool anymore.
So – then there is the love part, I’m not sure if I’m trying to validate that I know what I’m talking about – or what. But this is an article from MSN/PC World that shows us the top 25. Highlights:
Yahoo Pipes
Like Popfly, Yahoo Pipes lets you create your own mashups or “pipes.” As with Popfly, you drag and drop prebuilt modules, and then create connections between them. But Yahoo Pipes is much harder to use than Popfly, and the way to go about building your own mashup isn’t always obvious. But if you’re willing to do some digging and learning, you can build very useful stuff, such as a mashup that uses Yahoo maps to show the locations of all apartments for rent in a certain neighborhood.
Pageflakes
The Web is just as chaotic as the world–but Pageflakes can organize both of them for you. This super-customizable version of a home page enables you to pick the news and information feeds you want to read, and to specify the “flakes,” or applets, you want to include. Flakes let you add all sorts of cool stuff to your page–movie times, to-do lists, a notepad, e-mail, a horoscope–even sudoku or a personal blog. If you’re looking for one-stop browsing, this is it.
PopURLs
If you’re an information hound, you probably spend lots of time jumping from Digg to Del.icio.us to YouTube to Fark to Google News to anything-dot-com. With PopURLs, you no longer need to waste time hopping around the Internet. An aggregator of all things informative, PopURLs features massive lists of headlines, videos, blogs, and content from all of those sites, as well as plenty of others. One nice bonus is that you can search some of the sites–Del.icio.us, Flickr, and Wikipedia, among others–straight from PopURLs. It’s also easy to tweak the way PopURLs looks and works, too, including customizing the layout of the feeds so you can put the ones you view most regularly on top. The scrapbook is a particularly useful feature; just click the ‘Add to Scrapbook’ button next to any headline, and PopURLs will save it (and up to 19 other favorite items).
What will we do after MySpace?
Posted by tom.altman on July 18th, 2007
So, what will be the NBT (Next Best Thing) after social networks? The article I found which addresses this first looks back and then ahead.
Age #0 – eCommerce – the most primitive way of making money online. It’s identical to the real world…
Age #1 – Single Sign-on – Yahoo started out with a simple web directory, but their idea was to port traditional media business models to the online space. They weren’t focused on selling goods, but they brought great services together and glued them with a single sign-on mechanism.
Age #1.5 – Geocities – Geocities was one of many sites that provided free web hosting and web site creation services. However GeoCities was different in some ways. It was more like the social networking sites of today; the self expression level was high and the weird naming scheme based on city names gave it a human touch.
The Boom period (aka Dot Com) – The reason of the boom was the lack of calibration between the pace of internet applications and the internet infrastructure.
Age #2 – Search – What Google did was to offer a better search service with absolutely no clutter. Their sparse but highly efficient service opened the doors to big deals and hugely profitable online advertising.
Age #2.5 – On-demand Video
Age #3 – Social – MySpace kept growing, but it couldn’t take the necessary steps to become a real big thing…Only one company figured out the way of putting social interactions to the center of the web and it was Facebook.
Age #4 – Joost ??? – It’s hard to guess the 4th phase of the web because we don’t even have the 3rd one yet, fully. But what the past eras (see ages 1.5, 4 and 2.5) show is that we will end up with the rebirth of online TV.
So, what will be next? Who knows – I just know with the innovative things we are thinking, saying and doing – we will be right i the thick of it.
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