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October 16, 2007 10:20 PM
The Yahoo Platform
Don't count Yahoo out. They have tons of engaged users/readers/audience members, and a Valley ethos. From a report on their generally well recieved earnings, which came out today:
"Our goal is to create a motivated community of developers all building uniquely compelling applications that reach hundreds of millions of Yahoo users by plugging into the most popular properties or services," Yang told analysts. Sounds familiar? Yahoo hopes to use its own big brand to create an ecosystem, a term tech companies love to use meaning a whole world unto itself, like Facebook.
I knew this whole Web as platform thing wasn't a fad...
- Posted by John Battelle on October 16, 2007 10:20 PM
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give us a break. yahoo finally made their *revised* numbers --- once, and now we're supposed to believe that they're still in the game? C'mon.
Jerry's 100 days are over. Jerry, save us from Google and Microsoft! Only you can do it.
http://yodel.yahoo.com/2007/10/16/where-does-yahoo-head-next/
Most never looked upon web platforms as the fad. They looked at these SocNet's as fads. Freindster, MySpace, Facebook.
A platform on Yahoo (or Google) would certainly be far more powerful if implemented in the proper context as these two companies are more utilitarian in their uses by consumers as opposed to the SocNets that tend to be more about friends, music, etc.
It's interesting how the "web as a platform" mantra seems to have morphed to "a" platform into a competition for "my" platform. Inevitable, I guess. Perhaps there's a game changing scenario still to emerge in the open network model.
The expansion of user behavior from search-centric to social and entertainment centric is driving this - in the absence of an open environment, a series of plays for "owning the marketplace of social interaction" seems to be upon us.
I agree, Yahoo is a serious competitor on this trend, well positioned with the best damn PowerPoint position of the crowd.
History still looms darkly, and momentum is so critical to the bandwagon happy development community.
Yahoo does have potential. But they do continue to look like very weak in comparison with Google (based on financial results). While I do still believe Yahoo has potential they really do need to deliver. The growth in revenue and earning just have not been very good for years. They are fine for some average company but if they want to be seen as a leading company they need to preform better.
Google certainly gives a difficult comparison (seemingly almost impossible if Google were not actually doing it).
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