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Re: YahooSoft: Don’t Believe Everything You Read in The Mainstream Media?

Pete Cashmore — Sun, 06 May 2007 04:50:15 -0000

I agree.

Re: YahooSoft: Don’t Believe Everything You Read in The Mainstream Media?

zeroinflunencer — Sat, 05 May 2007 16:23:49 -0000

Hi Pete.

Seriously, it would be a good merger. Yahoo! as a media arm to a supplier of an operating platform brings together the relationship of production and distribution. Together they can design consumer engagement, which is different to Apples to consumer seduction. Together, they can reduce development waste, allowing a broader focus on functions (Google's game) driven by media use which is of Google's vision (they analyse, not manufacture consumer media data). Neither companies can beat Google on Network effects of search, but they could (and should) pursue the ubiquity of co-creation tools as counter proposition to the retrieval market (Google business driver).

Mistakes that were never resolved with AOL/TW, highlighted by Carl Icahn need to be understood. AOL/TW sought to become a media property, not an integrated media producer, by which I mean, they couldn't change the production model of media fast enough to establish a market position that was not a blend of the established model set by AOL and TW. Operating as licensor and distributor was a foolish mid to long term strategy. Even today they are fumbling over the short term strategy of supply and demand.

YahooSoft/Microhoo! has the ability, resources and commercial pressure to merge media production and Ubiquitous Computing and make the framework Open for 3rd parties to commercially exploit. With that level of engagement from consumer to industry, why would you need to use Google?

Perhaps I should expand upon this with a blog post.

Re: YahooSoft: Don’t Believe Everything You Read in The Mainstream Media?

Thomas — Sat, 05 May 2007 15:28:51 -0000

Well, gee if the bloggers did anything more than repurpose stories that hit the top of Digg or TechMeme, maybe they could have really made a contribution and shown this story for the POS that it was. But no, just another example of a glaring weakness that will bring the whole Web2.0 crowd back down to ground in Bust2.0.
The whinging about this rumor is really quite laughable...

Re: YahooSoft: Don’t Believe Everything You Read in The Mainstream Media?

moataz — Sat, 05 May 2007 11:57:52 -0000

Everyone in New York knows that the NYPost is the biggest piece of fluff. It's tabloid, not a real newspaper.

Re: YahooSoft: Don’t Believe Everything You Read in The Mainstream Media?

Fred Meyers — Sat, 05 May 2007 10:54:12 -0000

ahahahaha, did I call it or what (from the May 4th post)?

"Comment by Fred Meyers
2007-05-04 11:13:49
I think some stock owners (read: yahoo execs) are going to make a killing off todays spikeâ€¦I can see it now: â€œbelated April Fools! hahahah!â€"

Re: YahooSoft: Don’t Believe Everything You Read in The Mainstream Media?

Pete Cashmore — Sat, 05 May 2007 08:03:35 -0000

heh. Are you encouraging it because you think it's a good idea, or because you think it would be a disaster and you want to see MS go down in flames? ;)

Re: YahooSoft: Don’t Believe Everything You Read in The Mainstream Media?

Ali — Sat, 05 May 2007 06:58:28 -0000

Yeah, next time I'll take all my news from you.

Make sure you get it right ;)

Ever think about starting a lifestyle section in Mashable, I could write it for you. :)

Re: YahooSoft: Don’t Believe Everything You Read in The Mainstream Media?

zeroinflunencer — Sat, 05 May 2007 06:15:48 -0000

Damn. I think we should all encourage the merger in that case. Petition anyone?

Re: YahooSoft: Don’t Believe Everything You Read in The Mainstream Media?

Pete Cashmore — Sat, 05 May 2007 05:49:39 -0000

Heh. Well, the bloggers reproduced it without their own sources - we're just as bad. ;)

I'm not an MSM basher - I think they do a good job.

Re: YahooSoft: Don’t Believe Everything You Read in The Mainstream Media?

Ali — Sat, 05 May 2007 05:36:25 -0000

Well then, where does that leave us bloggers?

Now we can't even rely on the news posted by journalists at newspapers like NY Post and WSJ!

And they say bloggers make unreliable and blown up write ups.