12-16-2005, 12:35 PM
Analysis of Yahoo's recent acquisitions of social networking Web 2.0 darlings flickr and del.icio.us
full article: http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/...76,00.html
related topic: Yahoo Acquires Social Network Del.icio.us http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...665.0.html
Quote:First it bought photo-sharing site Flickr, and now it has snapped up bookmarking phenomenon Delicious. Why is Yahoo investing so heavily in the social networking stars of Web 2.0?
Such a flurry of activity has suddenly drawn attention to Yahoo, which often has a lower media profile than its more vivacious competitors despite being the world's most-visited website, with 101.3m visitors in August this year...
"You can probably stitch together our plan from the moves we've made, the acquisitions we've made, the products we've put out to market," says Bradley Horowitz, Yahoo's senior director of technology development. That plan: to try and make social search the next stage in the evolution of search engines.
full article: http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/...76,00.html
related topic: Yahoo Acquires Social Network Del.icio.us http://community.tuliptools.com/index.ph...665.0.html