Comments on: Yahoo to make 360 geek deals in 2006? http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051212/2722/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:33:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: TDavid http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051212/2722/#comment-43109 TDavid Tue, 13 Dec 2005 00:38:34 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051212/2722/#comment-43109 Great points, Adam. Google does need to work on integration. I wonder if the reason they haven't been very good at this so far is because everybody is working on these projects separately and they are just trying to pull them together as experiments and if they are successful <i>then</i> go through the work of integrating them? As for Yahoo and integration, remember the minor Flickr revolt when they tried to join accounts there. It's a very delicate thing merging users. Great points, Adam. Google does need to work on integration. I wonder if the reason they haven’t been very good at this so far is because everybody is working on these projects separately and they are just trying to pull them together as experiments and if they are successful then go through the work of integrating them?

As for Yahoo and integration, remember the minor Flickr revolt when they tried to join accounts there. It’s a very delicate thing merging users.

]]> By: Adam http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051212/2722/#comment-43100 Adam Mon, 12 Dec 2005 21:54:29 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051212/2722/#comment-43100 The problem is that NONE of these services have done a decent job with INTEGRATION. Integrating features, and/or making at least consistent interfaces. In some cases, I can understand keeping separate feels... Blogger and AdWords, for instance, should never have similar UIs. But AdSense and AdWords? GMail and GReader? The dissimularities... and the utter lack of talking to each other... are both baffling and frustrating. Yahoo's done a bit of a better job in integration, but not by much. I mean, heck, look at their recent comment about how MyWeb and del.icio.us will "borrow some great features from each other" or something like that. EARTH TO YAHOO: These are both ridiculously similar services, in goals, at least. Talking about "borrowing" rather than intelligent integration is just plain stupidity. IMHO, that's why Yahoo's stock price hasn't budged much. The mass consumer -- Y!'s bread and butter (did you actually think geeks clicked on ads? Ha! :D) isn't going to care much for new Y! services unless they're an integral part of things he or she does everyday already... e-mail and instant messaging, for instance. As for Microsoft... well, it's hard to even talk about that huge company as a single entity. Xbox, MSN, Windows... you get my drift. The problem is that NONE of these services have done a decent job with INTEGRATION. Integrating features, and/or making at least consistent interfaces. In some cases, I can understand keeping separate feels… Blogger and AdWords, for instance, should never have similar UIs. But AdSense and AdWords? GMail and GReader? The dissimularities… and the utter lack of talking to each other… are both baffling and frustrating.

Yahoo’s done a bit of a better job in integration, but not by much. I mean, heck, look at their recent comment about how MyWeb and del.icio.us will “borrow some great features from each other” or something like that. EARTH TO YAHOO: These are both ridiculously similar services, in goals, at least. Talking about “borrowing” rather than intelligent integration is just plain stupidity.

IMHO, that’s why Yahoo’s stock price hasn’t budged much. The mass consumer — Y!’s bread and butter (did you actually think geeks clicked on ads? Ha! :D) isn’t going to care much for new Y! services unless they’re an integral part of things he or she does everyday already… e-mail and instant messaging, for instance.

As for Microsoft… well, it’s hard to even talk about that huge company as a single entity. Xbox, MSN, Windows… you get my drift.

]]> By: *michael parekh on IT* http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051212/2722/#comment-43075 *michael parekh on IT* Mon, 12 Dec 2005 19:27:20 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20051212/2722/#comment-43075 <strong>ON YAHOO! GETTING COZIER WITH SIX APART WITH MOVABLE TYPE</strong> JUST YOUR TYPE? Well, Yahoo! is the first of the GYMAAAE companies getting a little closer with Six Apart, one of the biggest PRIVATE companies in the blog hosting, software and services business. As this Reuters story explains it:Yahoo Inc. and Six Ap... ON YAHOO! GETTING COZIER WITH SIX APART WITH MOVABLE TYPE

JUST YOUR TYPE? Well, Yahoo! is the first of the GYMAAAE companies getting a little closer with Six Apart, one of the biggest PRIVATE companies in the blog hosting, software and services business. As this Reuters story explains it:Yahoo Inc. and Six Ap…

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