Yahoo
Recently Yahoo has been on a shopping spree. They just bought Del.icio.us (a site where users can share their internet bookmarks with each other). This comes hot on the heals of Flicr ( a photosharing site) and upcoming.org ..a collaborating service.
Apparently its a trend of moving towards an internet world that focusses on Collaboration between Users.
What do u think ? Is this where the internet is headed ? Yahoo is in a losing battle with Google and so it looking at ways of coming back. Do they have this strategy right ?
posted by brain freeze at 9:03 PM
4 Comments:
I think Yahoo have this strategy right, at this point of the Web sphere time (whatever that means).
The key is to get enough number of customers who can pay or use enough to attract the advertisers.
Combining these services into a neat package would greatly boost the stickiness of yahoo. Currently they all seem to be separate services, as if it doesn't matter that Yahoo owns them. MSN Spaces seems to have gotten that part right.
I am really enjoying this competition.
9:21 PM
Yahoo always went after purchases like these, only time can tell if they are in heading in the right direction. Take the purchase of broadcast.com, it only made Mark Cuban and another founder a lot of money, Yahoo pretty much discontinued a lot of services that were offered by 'broadcast.com'.
8:22 AM
mohansez,
u are right about the part of losing the desktop space..
but yahoo might still be able to pull it off if they offer services that get peopl together..
right now however they seem to be fighting a losing battle..
12:47 AM
Yahoo helps convict Chinese dissident
FEBRUARY 14, 2006
YAHOO has helped Chinese authorities convict a "cyber-dissident" for allegedly criticising local officials on the internet, according to human rights group Reporters without Borders.
Former civil servant Li Zhi, 35, was sentenced to jail for eight years in December 2003 "on the basis of Yahoo-supplied data", according to a statement issued last week by the Paris organisation.
It says Zhi's identity was disclosed by Yahoo Hong Kong in August of that year, citing Zhi's lawyer.
"We are unaware of this case, and we cannot comment on the accuracy of this report," Yahoo spokeswoman Mary Osako says.
Zhi's case marks the second time Reporters without Borders has condemned Yahoo, and spotlights the pressure on web companies to maintain Western standards of free speech while obeying Chinese law.
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The group said in September that Yahoo identified reporter Shi Tao as the disseminator of a Chinese government memo warning of potential civil unrest on the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, helping to send the reporter to jail for 10 years.
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Bloody double standard out here..
All these guys should get together
and boycott China..
Instead they bow their heads to the greenback..dogs...
1:50 AM
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