I’m making this comment with respect to your point about the need to keep constantly improving discovery of information.

Our application directly aims to extract the essence of documents – web pages, email, actually any text. Further, it presents the extracted topics in context of the text so the reader immediately understands the meaning of the piece.

Further, one can use the extracted topics for searches and automatic summarization, sharing the results, rapid note taking, intelligent alerts, etc.

The application is a strong beta and soon we will be posting it for downloads on our yet to be build website. In the meantime I will be quite happy to provide an online demo to show its capability to compress information to its essential topics.

As an example I’m including the 7 key topics from your posting. The numbers in the brackets show the importance of topics. The application highlights the keywords and allows multiple views of the text depending on the choice of keywords.

If our application sparks your interest I will be happy to provide more information. Many thanks for the opportunity to write to you about information discovery.

Happy and Healthy New Year!

Henry Lewkowicz
President
Context Discovery

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Summary of Toby’s post done by Context Organizer.

Yodel Anecdotal

Source: http://yodel.yahoo.com/
Keywords:

entrepreneurs (100)
market (87)
Yahoo (87)
innovation (75)
start-ups (75)
developers (62)
Internet (62)
Summary:

I spend a lot of time meeting entrepreneurs and evaluating new business ideas in my role to find big ideas for Yahoo!

Last year proved to be an exciting time to be an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, working on the next generation of potentially life-changing Internet services.

Back at the Web 2.0 conference, for example, more than 200 start-ups tried to get into the Launch Pad workshop.

In the past few months, I’ve seen some very creative companies working on new web services, such as Mashery, which helps developers “power your API,” and Mybloglog, a community-building service for publishers and developers.

I also like WidgetBox and Clearspring, which are developing widget marketplaces and syndication services to go after the long tail of publishers — bloggers and social networking sites such as MySpace.

I’ve spent lots of time recently with entrepreneurs from India, China, Korea, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe and I continue to be amazed at the level and quality of ingenuity in these countries.

In fact, I just spoke in Israel to 200 local entrepreneurs who are working on the next generation of web and mobile services.

The passion and energy of Israeli entrepreneurs always blows me away — it’s hard to believe that such a small country can produce so much talent and innovation.

Entrepreneurs are operating in an environment where the capital required to start and run a new business is much lower, thanks to open source, web services, and outsourcing.

There appears be to plenty of money available for start-ups from venture capitalists.

And the primary source of income was an advertising market fueled by venture capital funding.

Acquisition strategy needs a strong organization with good communication system. New leaders who come into Yahoo! should be encouraged to spend reasonable time understanding the Y! architecture. Ex: When someone is building a villa where the design and architecture is roman and if a swiming pool designer comes in with a new oriental must have design. What will you do? knowing you must have this pool somewhere in the villa.
Yahoo! should show results with the new aquired products using its experience and existing resource. A strong economics within a organization is essential for good trade with outside.

Some leaders can take risk and create great products while some leaders can manage existing products efficiently, reward profits in both these cases.

I suddenly feel like doing a second read of your post.