For Yahoo! Answer's first birthday, the best contributors get a gift. For certain level distinctions, those who contribute the top answers are entitled to either a sticker, a car magnet, a water bottle, a hat, a coffee mug, or a fleece jacket. We all know that social networking is a popular medium… [read more]
Hello, Yahoo reorganization, goodbye Lloyd Braun! Due to a strategic conflict within the company, Braun has been ousted by the company. When he was originally hired, partially due to his successes at Disney's ABC Entertainment Television Group and tremendous popular series, "Lost," the company was speculated… [read more]
Yahoo has announced their top searches for 2006 a few weeks short of the year's end. The year in review shows that some things change, while some things stay the same. On the note of staying the same, Britney Spears has been #1 on the top overall search for five out of six years. (Her divorce probably… [read more]
In a move to become a nimbler, more Google-like company, Yahoo Inc. today announced the departure of Dan Rosensweig, Yahoo's chief operating officer and also the resignation of Lloyd Braun, the former ABC executive who ran Yahoo's media group in Santa Monica, Calif. According to the Wall Street Journal,… [read more]
Community is what Yahoo appears to be best at. When Google surrendered its Answers product and announced its closure, Yahoo really scored in the community aspect. Maybe Google can be the leader in search. But Yahoo deserves to be good at something. Not long ago, Yahoo was under attack by such media… [read more]
"Over 800" Google Answers participants (though not 1,000) probably explains Google's decision to shut the service down. Google Answers was simply never as popular as Yahoo! Answers, which has more than 50 times the market share. Why did Google fail? I took a look at the two services and came away with… [read more]
First Google, then Yahoo. This is a seemingly big trend in the industry lately. Two weeks ago, Google decided that it would begin expanding its ad base to newspapers, and now Yahoo seems to be doing the same thing -- only bigger (and this time, I think better). Earlier this month, Google launched… [read more]
Yahoo! is continuing to increase its reach on the social media -- now most famous in the del.icio.us and Flickr spheres -- by purchasing Bix.com. Rumor has it that they are also in early acquisition talks with MyBlogLog. Bix.com is a social contest site for mostly singing and dancing content,… [read more]
