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Some nostalgic Yahoo features

1) Music Launch cast is the best free Radio on Yahoo messenger

2) My Yahoo is much better than iGoogle

3) Yahoo Groups were the first and still leading e-groups.

4) Yahoo messenger lost out to Skype and Gtalk but its now interchangeable with MSN contacts. The add-ins are great and the avatars are still unmatched. Plus add-ins that are twitter compatible, facebook reachable for status changes.Open Social should ensure some Facebook Games /Apps reach there too

5) The new Email look is a cross between Outlook and Gmail…but its cool.And better than hotmail/livemail.

6) Yahoo Buzz, Yahoo Answers are good.So is Yahoo pictures.

7) The search engine ads are better left to Google.Thats underway taking out the last bottleneck.

8) Yahoo finance is still one of the best financial data sites.

9) Its still an old fashioned cluttered site…for nostalgia this is the best. Also has a host of options .Especially like Pipes.

No wonder Jerry Yang is squeezing Ballsmer of Micro-Soft for more money .

From Yahoo to Facebook via Twitter

try this only if –

You like music

You like technology

Have time on hand and want to have fun

I listen to internet radio using Yahoo Messenger’s Launchcast Plugin. Very good music, not too many ads (for free users like me) and good connectivity. I then enable the option of my status message in Yahoo Messenger to be the same as the song I am listening to.

I also use another Yahoo Messenger Plugin called Twitter Sync from WackyB.co.nz

It updates my Twitter account with the song I am listening to.

And on Facebook, I use a facebook application called Twitter 🙂 . It downloads my Twitter status and changes my Facebook status.

So there, changing my facebook status from my yahoo messenger . And listening to free music too !!

Mash that !!!

Ballmer + Yahoo = Google’s Boo Hoo

” I am going to fucking kill Google” Quote alleged to Steve Ballmer , 2005-6 ,due to Google’s poaching of engineers.

The following scenario is completely a work of fiction.

11 Ways Ballmer and Yahoo can kill Google –

1) Make their search engine better ,try combining the cache , and retrival queries at least for the first page, use some innovation like www.ask.com and www.guruji.com rather than pain vanilla search.. Maybe some more billions to buy out www.baidu.com —- But thats the toughest

2) Poach engineers from Google —- Thats hard

3) Combine their online ,offline advertising forces and spin it off in a different company. So there is one software company and one media company.

4) Use Gmail’s emails feature to give more space and advertise based on email content in yahoo email and hotmail. Cross promote OfficeLive on Yahoo and vice versa.

5)PRICE- Offer key words in a cheaper version of Adwords. Start offering an free alternative to Adsense AND SQUEEZE the long tail of Google’s revenue.

6)Use the facebook deal to sell more ads, give better ROI to advertisers, and monitor click fraud using Microsoft’s OS.

7) Buy out www.automattic.com for the wordpress and get a social community (facebook stake enhancement ??)

8) Offer desktop advertising as a freeware for some microsoft programs .

9)Tweak explorer to click repeatedly or not at all or at a slower speed on all ads that have the words ads by Google.

10) Make all Yahoo sites and Microsoft off search by Google, but searchable by yahoo.

11) Hire lawyers to repeatedly file anti trust cases against Google 🙂

Ballmer + Yahoo = Google's Boo Hoo

” I am going to fucking kill Google” Quote alleged to Steve Ballmer , 2005-6 ,due to Google’s poaching of engineers.

The following scenario is completely a work of fiction.