This doesn’t change the fact Yahoo seems second rate. Working with Google just seems wrong to me, like the Yankees and Red Sox working together. Would you view the Yankees the same way if they went to the Red Sox for money?

I guess I just like the whole Yahoo vs Google thing. I like it when two companies or products compete against each other.

At some point people are going to realize the format by which we advertise is not effective. Ads at some point were meant to be useful. To help users find good services or cheap products. Now too often an ad is a wasted click. Instead of getting a nice looking useful website users too often are taken to a spammy website or the ads themselves are spammy. Just go to si.com and see the circuit city ads. It baffles me how it can be effective to annoy people into buying products.

Sadly this has become the norm online and it hurts the industry when you consider the market with the most money is the older demographic. The group of people who wouldn’t know how to block popups and would lose trust in doing things online after getting scammed just once. The group of people with the most traditional social networks.

We need Yahoo to be better so they can challenge Google and hopefully evolve advertising into something more meaningful.

NutshellMail has merged this concept and that of email account aggregation by offering a free service that sends recurring email Updates to any designated email address on a user defined schedule. http://nutshellmail.com

AOL is obviously just as walled, beloved, and ‘useful’ as facebook. AOL has some good tech but the AOL brand is yanking them to the ground (while their users slowly take residence there). So,Facebook absorbs the AOL brand and has some lay offs.
M$ makes themselves the largest player in online advertising by volume (users, not $).

2. The real competion for these “new” start pages I think probably comes from igoogle, user’s web mail accounts, or user’s favorite search engines.

3. If Yahoo and AOL want us to use their start pages they have to give a us reason to change…they have to give something really special…the ability to link to my gmail account from a page festooned with a giant ad is not special enough.

4. They should consider focusing on new and emerging markets (3rd world, mobile, etc) which are going to be huge in the years to come and just write-off competing on the “old-fashioned” web.

Look for winners in vertical space and beyond to capture these $$$/advertisers…and quickly with fast technology deployment and unique targeting solutions!

I just laugh at him because Facebook must be doing something right to have 80 million users.

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Your suckin it lol