by Allen Weiner | April 23, 2009 | 1 Comment
As part of its audit process, evaluating its vast array of products and services, Yahoo! has decided to shutter Geocities the hosted community business which it bought in May 1998 for $3.75 billion. The closing of Geocities joins Farechase, Yahoo Briefcase, Yahoo Pets and My Web as part of CEO Carol Bartz’s plan to “increase [...]
Category: blogging social media Tags: Carol Bartz, Geocities, Yahoo
by Allen Weiner | March 9, 2009 | Comments Off
Memo to Carol Bartz: It’s a nice achievement that Yahoo! now has 793 newspapers in its consortium, 120 of whom are using its APT advertising platform, but this effort is perhaps an exercise in futility unless the newspapers can figure out a way to cut costs and generate digital dollars in short order. And I [...]
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Category: blogging broadcasting Conferences Newspapers Publishing Tags: Carol Bartz, Maven, newspaper consortium, Newspapers, Yahoo
by Allen Weiner | February 26, 2009 | Comments Off
As Yahoo enters the command and control part of its evolution, new CEO Carol Bartz sums up on the company’s blog the reason for a new, more centralized corporate structure: “Mention Yahoo! practically anywhere in the world, and people yodel. But in the past few years, we haven’t been as clear in showing the world [...]
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Category: blogging citizen media Publishing Search social media Web 2.0 Tags: Carol Bartz, Yahoo
by Allen Weiner | January 27, 2009 | Comments Off
Yahoo’s Q4 and 2008 full-year earnings call yielded few surprises in the wake of the economic downtown: Revenue is down, expenses are being controlled and the company will continue to focus on core strengths while offering cautious guidance for Q1 2009. Yahoo watchers know the call was less about dollars and cents and search share [...]
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Category: Search social media Television Web 2.0 Tags: Blake Jorgensen, Carol Bartz, Yahoo
by Allen Weiner | January 13, 2009 | 3 Comments
Less than one week after making a significant announcement at CES related to its new connected TV platform, Yahoo! appears to be about to follow up with a another blockbuster, planning to name Carol Bartz, former Autodesk CEO, as its new CEO according to multiple published reports. Bartz is a solid and safe choice that [...]
Category: blogging Search Web 2.0 Tags: Autodesk, Carol Bartz, CEO, Yahoo
by Allen Weiner | January 10, 2009 | 2 Comments
I am a sucker for cool video gadgets and I found ViewVu tucked away in an out of the way section of the auxiliary CES exhibition floor at the Sands Convention Center. This PVR-Pro camera is a wearable camera that allows you to clip the camera onto your shirt or jacket and shoot video while [...]
Category: blogging broadcasting citizen media Television Uncategorized Video Tags: camcorders, CES, Jumpcut, Video, VieVu, wearable camera, Yahoo
by Allen Weiner | January 9, 2009 | 1 Comment
I won’t go into too much detail here, but my colleagues Andrew Frank and Mike McGuire and I saw a demo of Yahoo!’s new Connected TV widget-based service, and it was impressive. We will provide more insights in subsequent company research reports, but needless to say, Yahoo! has the first mover advantage when it comes [...]
Category: broadcasting Television Tags: CES, Connected TV, TV, Yahoo
by Allen Weiner | December 17, 2008 | Comments Off
As I build out a TV studio in my garage, I have been going through all the online and offline nests where I have video content in an effort to consolidate my content. When I arrived at Jumpcut, a really cool browser-based video mashup service from Yahoo!, I see the site is no longer accepting [...]
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Category: citizen media Publishing Web 2.0 Tags: Jumpcut, Yahoo
by Allen Weiner | November 18, 2008 | 2 Comments
In one of the more anticlimactic business moves in the brief history of the web, Yahoo! CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang announced he will step down once a replacement is found for the top spot at the iconic portal. For many, this will be a milestone in the drama that has surrounded Yahoo! in its [...]
Category: blogging citizen media Search Tags: Google, Jerry Yang, Microsoft, Tim Koogle, Yahoo
by Allen Weiner | November 4, 2008 | Comments Off
Yahoo announced it’s shutting down Y! Live, one of the search/portal’s most innovative services. Live is/was Yahoo’s live streamcasting project that allowed anyone with a webcam to launch an online TV channel. Have to wonder the thinking around this move.
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Category: broadcasting Television Video Web 2.0 Tags: streaming, Yahoo
