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Greg Linden has some insider info about Yahoo strategy. The full report (maybe written by Brad Garlinghouse, a Yahoo senior V.P) is available on Paul Kedrosky’s Blog.
Here is the main quote :

We lack a focused, cohesive vision for our company …. We lack clarity of ownership and accountability.

So maybe I am wrong (probabilty High), or maybe they are building the strategy without Brad knowing it (probabilty low), or maybe they just have to reorganize all their wonderfull assets (seems to best).

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I walked the path of log.
And found this gem  // widgets*

* Small snippets of embed code written as Javascript, Flash, and HTML
scripts are being spread throughout the web in the form of widgets and
badges.I metaphorically call those embed code objects “Flying Seeds”
and I believe that many of the most exciting future developments on the
internet will be a result of those Flying Seeds cross pollinating on
other websites. I look forward to exploring this newly emerging
technology space with you on this blog and I welcome your input and
opinions.

Flying seeds are his eponymous blog. [reed the piece on Goog as a media company]

[Source/Image/ Red Castle]

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Yahoo Last Quarter results have generated a "postserie" (1, 2 ….)  about the bad position of Yahoo.

YAHOO KICKS ASS BECAUSE THEY ARE PUZZLING THE IDENTITY ! They’ve just acquired Mybloglog (read TC or Battelle) so they now have a foot in 4 pieces of the identity puzzle (so it’s 50% and the hobby one is already integrated). They are working on identity with an acquisition strategy at a really low cost (we are talking of less than 100M for Delicious, Flickr, Mybloglog … they have Avatar / Yahoo Answers / Vidéo … and a lot more like Social Shopping !).[Update: Yahoo is quietly flying seeding]

Google is working on the professional web when Yahoo is working on the content and social. At the end of the day it could represent less money than Pro but if Panama works as good as Adsens … they’re gonna have a killing fully integrated service. If I had cash I will buy a Tetrapack of shares. And has I said it we are still nesting the identity (that’s why I called it 0.2 // yahoo works on the web of 2009 !)

A clear proof of this differenciation strategy is available trough search results. Compare Yahoo vs Google and you will see. They bring to u-lik all the Long tail content leads when Google is bringing the people looking for us trough the u-lik request (i.e content vs Pro)

I love these guys they are clearly working on what will matters for the EPIC user, the tomorrow user.

Disclosure: I am a huge fan of Mybloglog, I was one of the early adopters (Member Since: 18th Jun 2006), it even made me show up on  mashable.

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You have to take the 5 minutes to listen to Justin Hall Vision.
This guy is extending the Gaming experience to the computer one. The parallel is perfect, and geeks are a proof of it. It’s fun and he explains indirectly why I put the virtual life as a piece of the puzzle. There are huge similarities between building your identity and a character in a game.

"Passively Multiplayer is a system for turning user data into ongoing play" seems a good idea.

He puts at the end of a page a delicious link for his research. I wil take time to look into this when I came back.

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During my flight to Boston, I used paper again.
Here is a quote from Gates (Bill not Robert) I found in the Herald :

"We’re back kind of in Internet bubble era in terms of people thinking: ‘O.K, traffic. We want traffic,’ [...] There are still some areas where it’s unclear what’s going to come out of that."

I would like to add that Internet Time is less valuable than TV time. It’s less a brain wash therefore it’s less valuable in terms of ads.
Here is an other interesting article about Bubble Stutzman is always right on timing. I whish I were in paris, I would have entered the debate.

But I am in Boston (I love this town) to see my sister who studies in
Harvard and make a speech on virtual Identity.It’s gonna be fun and intersting since it will be the first time I will face  a group o heavy facebook users.

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Nicholas Carr has just write a brilliant post on the paradox of the abundance economy.
I wrote something a while ago just after David Hornick post.
Here is an extract of his post showing how free is costly :

In arguing that computing is "almost free," while at the same time describing how costly it actually is, Gilder overlooks the paradox of abundance: that providing a resource in the quantities required to make it seem "free" can be a very expensive undertaking

For me the perfect example is Youtube with its free video and its bandwith needs.
The paradox can be largely expanded to the personal human computation problem (close to  the attention one) but Environement is also a briliant example.

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See my first post here Monetizing Wikipedia. The debate is still running. Here are some trails & new ideas :

• Calacanis has made 5 proposition in total (1 = non-graphical leaderboard to the Wikipedia, 2 = the same with"opt out", 3= search ads, 4 = search ads with one clik opt out, and finally 5 = opt in google adsense /the best one but with the lower financial leverage)
• We came trough the discussion @ rough type to the hypothesis that an API could be monetized in BtoB. I love this hypothesis. In the new dev version of U-lik we choose to create a direct link so people will be pushed to contribute. By default, we will bring value by driving our power users.
• The discussion was also on Wikipedia having dam good results on Google. Rough Type found some clues which match with Greg linden comment.

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