Thank you a lot :)

Very interesting information! Thanks!

G’night

Anyway getting online is still worth the trouble, coz i can sit here and let my mind travel. (http://www.flickr.com/photos/freshelectrons/360809345/) :-)

Yahoo! i have all the space to store data, offline/online. I have so many resources/technology but i just dont have the time. :-(

We will see the creation and evolution of Online Personal Web Bots.
Right away i can think of two, one at my site and another which explores.
My OPWB will automatically:
- check on sites, blogs, bookmarks etc.,
- Download or bookmark sites/files based on tags, words, file formats i approve or decide.
- OPWB will work while i am offline analyzing blog comments, news etc., Well it could even respond on my behalf ;-)
- It will redirect data among gadgets, services or tools based on priority, people or situation. Ex: computer Email convert to mobile sms or mobile call convert to computer video conference.
- My OPWB will help me decide if i should check on a particular information. Ex: If i should read a blog post at all or if i should be informed about a particular news.
It will help me read, understand, analyze and research information better online. It will help me write, express, create better content online.
There is so much more to share but i just remembered American Idol, i mean if i cant sing and i keep singing, it can be funny and i really dont want to be funny.

However i would love to see Yahoo come out things which i can keep at my desk or stick to my laptop and these things should react based on my activities online or offline at Y!.

This is deja vu, i had written about ’search landscape’ in my thinkpad, few days back. Anyway, you could add on to the World Explorer a search landscape feature using y! directory. A landscape where search results like sites or blogs are colour coded and categories, sub categories have shapes like cones, dome etc.,
Selected results are presented in the frame where you have photos.
-By default, the landscape is based on the most searched keyword.
-Users can create art on these landscape when at maximum zoom or can embed art on the colourfull landscape with the keyword used.

Yahoo!, i cant do much if i cant brainstorm with you all and i just cant keep being funny. Thank you for letting me post here, i wish Yahoo! the best.

P.S.
Why do you ask for my mail id, is it to search for my post?

-Society & Education system: think of products & resources for the present and future generation. Ex: calculator & spellcheck

-Travel problems & global offices: Maybe some team members can work the other locations timezone with less work hours. Ex: one team member from X country and another team member from Y country working on the same project work in each other timezone from their respective location with less/flexi hours.

-Nowdays everywhere around the globe, Quality has taken a backseat. Everyone now just wants to top the base quality rating, so if a company sets it at 40%, another company unlike in the past would not work for 90% but would want to just get maybe 42% quality rating.
-Before their where many legends now its the age of zillion stars. Its the age of ‘give it all, be it all, time up, move on’!
-Unfortunetly its the game engine concept with content and products, new games are made using existing engine.

365 days ahead, Y! happy 2007.

MAY WISH YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007

A To Z YAHOO THE BEST

MAY WISH YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007

Not In Past Or In Future Service Provider Like You

LONG LIVE YAHOO & STAFF LONG LIVE

You talk about positive change–but have you even bothered to read the comments to Sal Taylor Kidd’s 11/28 “Anecdotal” on changes to the TV pages? There are over 200 comments there, virtually all HUGELY negative. (And I suspect the balance are internal shills.) A popular product was ruined through over-engineering and “make-work” changes. Maybe there was some thought that the “old” TV listings weren’t enough of a profit center, but gradual introduction of revenue streams would have been a far better course than an entire re-do which your users have totally rejected by flocking to competitors who offer clean, straightforward listings without endless delay through needless separation of information into distinct web pages and forced “signon” requirements.

You may be seeing that “hits” are going up, but if so, it’s only because information that used to be on one page has been fractured into many pages–you’re losing users big time. If there’s ever been a worse example of a boss destroying a good product with a replacement just to justify a huge headcount, I’ve never seen or heard of it. This isn’t peanut butter, this is feces in a jar trying to sell itself on the shelf.

Eric Artman

I am a big fan of strategic alliances, but I have to admit, co-branding has always been risky business as far as I am concerned. As you would know, partnerships and alliances can be made to fade away or made discreet much easier than hiding a ‘Brand Name’, (if things go wrong–you’re guilty by association). Yahoo! appears to have merged, I emphasise the words ‘ONLY APPEARS’ to have merged, with some media organizations where both now share the same web space, and live on Yahoo! servers, but also merged their brand names and place that so prodominantly on the headers and advertising pages and so on.

How well will that work..?? Although I’d like to take everything you said beyond doubt, this particular point has to wait before it gets my assessment. I do hope that in one or two years time, we will be able to say: This was a great move.

NOTE: Media, all over the world, is also the subject of re-org. Organizations are being sold and bought, re-structured and are, forver, the focus of rules, regulations and legislation makers. Therefore, tagging along with a media organization can prove exhausing and can force partners to follow only the directions that suit the media organization itself.

Carlos Reo-Dero
AdsenseProject.com

I admire Yahoo for many years. I hold YHOO. But, I can’t happily say “Yahoo!” because you guys are losing ground. I hope that all your new initiatives work out well. BTW, new email beta rocks!

Those of us who have generously invested our ‘user generated content’ may not show up on Yahoo’s balance sheet, but I believe that we are a key untapped asset that you can utilize — as you evolve your company’s business model to the next level.

My point: don’t under-value the collaborative communities that are already within your grasp. We are here to help you, but you really must align us with credible marketing leadership.

I have written a brief commentary on this very topic at my ‘Digital Lifescapes’ blog — http://dhdeans.blogspot.com — by all means, have someone from your team contact me if you want to discuss my perspective.

Respectfully,

David H. Deans

I would appreciate if you read through my new and original post (at the bottom of the new post). Excuse me if I am harsh in my post, but, as someone whose web experience was guided by you (Yahoo), it hurts to see my friend and guide (you, Yahoo!) going down for no apparent reason other than bad management (I feel/believe).

I don’t know if your COO is to be blamed or if he was just a scapegoat. Whatever that be, I am hoping you would know and would take care of things.

Anyway, the sooner Yahoo recovers and the sooner it gets back to the top position, the earlier I will be happy. And trust me, I will happily rewrite (on my blog) about “The rebirth of Yahoo!” I am hoping you will give me that chance.

(My post about Yahoo’s state-of-affairs is at http://srmiocc.blogspot.com/2006/11/rewriting-yahoos-obituary.html)

This latest announcement harkens back to Mr. Semel’s original strategy proclamation in 2001 where the centerpiece was moving revenues from 90% advertising to only 50% advertising and 50% subscription. I think this following excerpt from a Wired News story dated November 15, 2001 gives a great example of how Mr. Semel changed Yahoo’s culture from Silicon Valley wunderkind to tired old media overnight and demonstrates a “stark contrast” from Google’s Valley-style approach:

In stark contrast to Yahoo’s early days as a startup founded by two young graduate students, maturity is apparently also in. Greg Coleman, Yahoo’s executive vice president who is actively involved in building more marketing and advertising partnerships said, “You can’t do it with youth and enthusiasm.”

Coleman said that the company had recently hired 30 new ad sales people, who were for the most part 40- or 50- something and had years of experience and established contacts with the major ad agencies.

“It makes you sleep well at night,” he said.