BIT320 Remix: yahoo Archives

New Yahoo Service Looks To Improve ROI Of Online Ads

Click through ads get better at determining the advertisers' actual revenue per site.

In del.icio.us/pinkfootsie, 12/17/2005 | Original | Archive

Yahoo makes tasty deal

Yahoo acquires social network del.icio.us

In del.icio.us/rasheff, 12/12/2005 | Original | Archive

Yahoo thinks Del.icio.us is…..well…delicious

Yahoo the internet giant recently purchased Del.icio.us for an undisclosed amount of money this Friday. Similar to Yahoo’s recent acquisitions of Flickr, and Upcoming.org Yahoo is trying to generate more mass appeal and the sharing of knowledge and information. This article from Wired News explains the reasoning behind the purchase

During the past year, Yahoo has been adding more tools that promote sharing among friends and family as it battles for web traffic with its biggest rivals — Google, Microsofts MSN and Time Warner’s AOL. All of them are trying to widen their internet audiences so they can make more money from steadily increasing volume of online advertising.

Each of us are in fact 1 of 300,000 current users of Del.icio.us, and I’m sure we will see much growth now that it is part of the Yahoo network. I really hope this takes off. I know that there are so many times, that I wanted to pass a link of to my friends, and if this gain more appeal it would really help me share links. Unfortunately for the owner of Del.icio.us the transaction was “so small that it won’t impact Yahoo’s financials”.

In SuperMatt, 12/09/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

Yahoo Launches VoIP Service Linked To Web Features

Yahoo is differentiating itself with having email and instant messaging linked to VOIP...but isn't that basically Skype?

In del.icio.us/pinkfootsie, 12/08/2005 | Original | Archive

Yahoo integrates RSS into email and alerts

RSS & Mail

In del.icio.us/mridge, 12/05/2005 | Original | Archive

hackdiary: Using Wikipedia and the Yahoo API to give structure to flat lists

A nice explanation of how to link together a bunch of terms using publicly available sources. Those guys at the BBC are doing a lot of great work here. The hack uses wikipedia and the yahoo (REST) API.

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 12/03/2005 | Original | Archive

CNN.com - Japanese held over fake news site - Nov 28, 2005

a japanese former computer programmer is arrested for posting fake news on a fake Yahoo site that he designed

In del.icio.us/jbartko, 11/29/2005 | Original | Archive

Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters

In del.icio.us/supermatt, 11/26/2005 | Original | Archive

Yahoo! Wins Search Victory - Forbes.com

In del.icio.us/supermatt, 11/25/2005 | Original | Archive

Slashdot | Search Engine Results Relatively Fair

"The Economist and PhysicsWeb report on a study from Indiana University claiming that search engines have an egalitarian effect that gives new pages a greater chance to be discovered, compared to what would be the case in the absence of search engines."

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 11/19/2005 | Original | Archive

Om Malik’s Broadband Blog — » Web 2.0 Exit… what is that?

Suggests that everyone doing Web 2.0 projects is really just doing unpaid product development for Google, Yahoo, or Microsoft. Maybe. Some of the commenters argue that there are viable revenue models.

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 11/12/2005 | Original | Archive

Yahoo, TiVo team up

Yahoo, TiVo team up to blend TV, Web services

In del.icio.us/rasheff, 11/08/2005 | Original | Archive

Yahoo and TiVo are collaborating to further blend TV and Web Services

Through the partnership, Yahoo's Internet-based content and services through TiVo's digital video recording devices.

In del.icio.us/supriya, 11/08/2005 | Original | Archive

Yahoo and TiVo team up to offer services

People can click on programs that they want to record on the Yahoo site and it will record on TiVo

In del.icio.us/williamhmacy3, 11/07/2005 | Original | Archive

Technology News: Portals & Search : Yahoo Tries to Put Itself on the Map

Yahoo enters the world of map mash-ups

In del.icio.us/mridge, 11/06/2005 | Original | Archive

Yahoo! Maps, Driving Directions, and Traffic

Yahoo's latest maps service - the beta version

In del.icio.us/jbartko, 11/03/2005 | Original | Archive

Yahoo revamps map service in duel with Google - Tech News & Reviews - MSNBC.com

in an attempt to out-do Google, Yahoo introduces upgraded map service featuring the ability to get directions to several places at once

In del.icio.us/jbartko, 11/03/2005 | Original | Archive

Yahoo Doubles Price of Music Download Service

Yahoo ends their big price cut on music downloading. Its back up..double what it was to download per year.

In del.icio.us/williamhmacy3, 10/31/2005 | Original | Archive

Today’s Top Brands: What the future will bring.

This article on Forbes.com identifies several of today’s top brands with the most opportunity for growth. Consumers have suggested specific areas for that growth. For example, consumers want to see Apple move into cell phones, car stereos and televisions. They want a dating network from eBay.

I thought this article was especially interesting in light of all the Corporate Strategy I’ve been studying this week. Sooner or later, firms are faced with opportunities to expand, and they must choose how. This article seems to be in favor of horizontal integration into other industries and product categories. I think the suggestions for Apple make sense. Apple has a reputation for media products and user-friendliness, both very important for things like cell phones and televisions. However, I don’t exactly agree with some of the suggestions for Yahoo: clothing and coffee houses. Yahoo is a tech company. Will it really be so desparate as to start selling its brand on clothing and coffee? I hope not. A company like Yahoo has capabilities in technology and should leverage them in other technology industries. Clothing and coffee may destory the Yahoo brand image and hurt the existing tech businesses.

The article is fun - it gets you thinking about the future. What do you want out of today’s brands in 10 years?

In jb's blog, 10/29/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft joins book search plan

Pretty Cool

In del.icio.us/zeenah, 10/27/2005 | Original | Archive

Open Content Alliance...will anything remain 'closed'?

Yahoo trying to beat Google to the punch with a host of sponsors.

In del.icio.us/pinkfootsie, 10/21/2005 | Original | Archive

Yahoo and Bell South Form Alliance

Yahoo forms alliance with Bell South to provide broadband internet access.

In del.icio.us/williamhmacy3, 10/17/2005 | Original | Archive

The Financial News

Yahoo Finance is a great way to learn about the financial markets.

In del.icio.us/supriya, 10/16/2005 | Original | Archive

Microsoft and Yahoo out to message aol's life away

MSN and Yahoo vs AIM...who's in?

In del.icio.us/pinkfootsie, 10/15/2005 | Original | Archive

Yahoo, Microsoft buddy up

Microsoft, Yahoo to let users chat with each other

In del.icio.us/rasheff, 10/12/2005 | Original | Archive

Yahoo adds blogs to news searches

Yahoo has added blogs into its pool of sites that is searches when a keyword search is performed

In del.icio.us/williamhmacy3, 10/11/2005 | Original | Archive

Yahoo tunes into podcasting craze - Tech News & Reviews - MSNBC.com

Yahoo will offer tools to sort through all the millions of podcasts on the internet

In del.icio.us/jbartko, 10/10/2005 | Original | Archive

A Better Way To Search? - Forbes.com

Yahoo tries to catch up to Google with Yahoo MyWeb - but is it as great as they say it is?

In del.icio.us/jbartko, 10/10/2005 | Original | Archive

Yahoo's new podcast tool

Yahoo tunes into podcasting craze with new search tools

In del.icio.us/rasheff, 10/10/2005 | Original | Archive

MyWeb by Yahoo

There is a commentary piece on Forbes.com called “A Better Way to Search” which discusses Yahoo’s new search tactic called MyWeb. How it works is as follows:

First, the idea behind MyWeb (now in beta version) is to create your own personal Web universe with the center being your own page, which includes all of the Web pages and links you’ve downloaded and stored there–basically, a snazzier set of bookmarks. In turn, these pages are searchable whenever you like.

These “search communities” are suppose to be Yahoo’s way of taking over Google, but isn’t this exactly like del.icio.us? Whats the difference? At the same time, I question whether people are actually going through other people’s bookmarks. Since I’ve been using del.icio.us, I haven’t really been looking at other people’s bookmarks. I just bookmark my own and don’t really try to find people who I have bookmarks in common with. But this is a personal thought. Del.icio.us is stil up and running and many people are interacting on it so there must be some appeal to it. If that’s the case, Yahoo is making a good move and this project will probably become popular just because Yahoo is a well known name.

In zee124, 10/08/2005 | Original | Archive | Post to del.icio.us | Technorati

iWay Puts Yahoo! Maps on Your iPod

A real competitive advantage for the ipod is the network effect. A lot of people have them, so those who offer new services are happy to package them for the ipod. Then, all of these services make the ipod more attractive.

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 10/08/2005 | Original | Archive

Yahoo CEO belittles Google

Yahoo CEO belittles Google's expansion

In del.icio.us/rasheff, 10/08/2005 | Original | Archive

Yahoo to build digital library

Yahoo has decided store copyrighted books on their site, in an effort to build a digita

In del.icio.us/williamhmacy3, 10/04/2005 | Original | Archive

Could yahoo beat google to the punch?

Digitizing information and the issue of copyrights. Trying to keep the animals at bay.

In del.icio.us/pinkfootsie, 10/03/2005 | Original | Archive

Yahoo Finance

Guide to investing and current events in the market

In del.icio.us/williamhmacy3, 09/27/2005 | Original | Archive

Yahoo is some trouble: information sharing, adware support, and customer trust blinks away

In del.icio.us/pinkfootsie, 09/23/2005 | Original | Archive

Microsoft Quashes Search Relevancy Report

The important point here is that microsoft is not making a dent in the search business, and by extension one can understand why they re-orged. Competition has moved off of the desktop and into search. A more general issue of how you measure performance.

In del.icio.us/fpgibson, 09/22/2005 | Original | Archive

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