New York Times Blog Bits - Technology, 13.11.2007: Inbox 2.0: Yahoo and Google to Turn E-Mail Into a Social Network

New York Times Blog Bits - Technology, 13.11.2007: Inbox 2.0: Yahoo and Google to Turn E-Mail Into a Social Network
by Saul Hansell: "Google and Yahoo have come up with new and very similar plans to respond to the challenge from MySpace and Facebook: They hope to turn their e-mail systems and personalized home page services (iGoogle and MyYahoo) into social networks."

Tags: socialnetwork, opensocial, google, yahoo, webmail

Read/WriteWeb, 20.09.2007: Zimbra: Why Did Yahoo Buy Them?

Read/WriteWeb, 20.09.2007: Zimbra: Why Did Yahoo Buy Them?
by Richard MacManus: "This week Zimbra was acquired by Yahoo! for a staggering $350M. But why did Yahoo buy a Web Office collaboration suite?"

Tags: analysis, zimbra, yahoo, weboffice, webmail, collaboration, enterprise2.0

The Next Net, 12.12.2006: Yahoo Opens Up Project Panama

The Next Net, 12.12.2006: Yahoo Opens Up Project Panama
by Erick Schonfeld: "One reason Yahoo (YHOO) has been getting dinged by Wall Street is because its answer to Google's AdWords, dubbed Project Panama, has been repeatedly delayed. SearchEngineLand reports that it is now open to anyone who wants to sign up."

Tags: yahoo, advertising, test

SearchViews, 08.12.2006: Yahoo's Re-Org and Metacafe Rumors

SearchViews, 08.12.2006: Yahoo's Re-Org and Metacafe Rumors
by Kate Zimmermann: "Is Yahoo is finally cleaning up their internal "peanut butter" problem? On Tuesday, Yahoo announced their plans to merge media assets and reshuffle upper management (including the departure of COO Dan Rosensweig) by mashing everything into three overhead groups."

Tags: business, yahoo, management, video

A VC, 04.12.2006: The De-Portalization of the Internet (aka What I Would Do If I Were Running Yahoo!)

A VC, 04.12.2006: The De-Portalization of the Internet (aka What I Would Do If I Were Running Yahoo!)
by Fred Wilson: "Google and others changed all of that. I don't have the data to prove it, but my guess is if you looked at the percent of all pageviews that are generated each month, a much smaller portion exist on the top 10 properties today than in 2000, at the height of the first Internet era."

Tags: yahoo, strategy, portal, search, business