Comments on: Yahoo! My Web and the continued evolution of the Internet operating system http://ianmurdock.com/cloud/yahoo-my-web-and-the-continued-evolution-of-the-internet-operating-system/ on emerging platforms and the power of aggregation and integration Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:28:31 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Deidre Nair http://ianmurdock.com/cloud/yahoo-my-web-and-the-continued-evolution-of-the-internet-operating-system/comment-page-1/#comment-224 Deidre Nair Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://ianmurdock.com/wp/?p=182#comment-224 lo Ian, It may be all about Integration, but with yahoo,its a at best a hodge podge. I'm a yahoo user for 6 years, now my ISP is also yahoo branded (BTYahoo!). Their toolbar is the worst of the lot .Saved searches was first introduced by a9.com. In fact a9.com search is extensible, I can search images, wikipedia, flights, msdn etc from a9, just 1click (i dont work for amazon, just like their toolbar :P). Yahoo toolbar is a couple of buttons with links to other parts of their site like bookmarks, myweb etc. Point: Integration with other features is good, as long as it isnt at the expense of usability. right now, i would'nt count Yahoo as a gaint with a chance. lo Ian, It may be all about Integration, but with yahoo,its a at best a hodge podge. I’m a yahoo user for 6 years, now my ISP is also yahoo branded (BTYahoo!). Their toolbar is the worst of the lot .Saved searches was first introduced by a9.com. In fact a9.com search is extensible, I can search images, wikipedia, flights, msdn etc from a9, just 1click (i dont work for amazon, just like their toolbar :P). Yahoo toolbar is a couple of buttons with links to other parts of their site like bookmarks, myweb etc. Point: Integration with other features is good, as long as it isnt at the expense of usability. right now, i would’nt count Yahoo as a gaint with a chance.

]]> By: Ian Murdock http://ianmurdock.com/cloud/yahoo-my-web-and-the-continued-evolution-of-the-internet-operating-system/comment-page-1/#comment-225 Ian Murdock Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://ianmurdock.com/wp/?p=182#comment-225 Hi Deidre, Thanks for sharing that. I've been meaning to take a look at A9, and I will. A9's CEO, Udi Manber, was a former colleague of mine from University of Arizona days, before (ironically enough) he was hired away by Yahoo to be their Chief Scientist. He's a very bright guy, one of the pioneers of search and the web. One advantage Yahoo has over A9 is Yahoo has email, contacts, calendars, and a bunch of other stuff ready integrated. Then again, in an Internet operating system composed of distributed services interconnected by a set of open APIs, I guess that doesn't really matter much in the long run (and is probably better, since too much centralization could lead us right back into a monopoly situation). -ian Hi Deidre,

Thanks for sharing that. I’ve been meaning to take a look at A9, and I will. A9′s CEO, Udi Manber, was a former colleague of mine from University of Arizona days, before (ironically enough) he was hired away by Yahoo to be their Chief Scientist. He’s a very bright guy, one of the pioneers of search and the web. One advantage Yahoo has over A9 is Yahoo has email, contacts, calendars, and a bunch of other stuff ready integrated. Then again, in an Internet operating system composed of distributed services interconnected by a set of open APIs, I guess that doesn’t really matter much in the long run (and is probably better, since too much centralization could lead us right back into a monopoly situation).

-ian

]]> By: Cori Schlegel http://ianmurdock.com/cloud/yahoo-my-web-and-the-continued-evolution-of-the-internet-operating-system/comment-page-1/#comment-226 Cori Schlegel Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://ianmurdock.com/wp/?p=182#comment-226 I'd have to say that the most exciting thing about the Yahoo MyWeb offering is the attention.xml starting point. While the Firefox toolbar is nice, the third-party Googlebar for Firefox works just as well, and Yahoo isn't the best place to save information about site's you've visited (again, Firefox extensions make del-icio-us and Furl the best places for that, IMHO). But the fact that they publish what you've saved in attention format is super-cool, even while it's very basic. Love to see some traction on the attention.xml front. I’d have to say that the most exciting thing about the Yahoo MyWeb offering is the attention.xml starting point.

While the Firefox toolbar is nice, the third-party Googlebar for Firefox works just as well, and Yahoo isn’t the best place to save information about site’s you’ve visited (again, Firefox extensions make del-icio-us and Furl the best places for that, IMHO). But the fact that they publish what you’ve saved in attention format is super-cool, even while it’s very basic. Love to see some traction on the attention.xml front.

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