When Yahoo acquired MyBlogLog I think a year ago, I thought that changes to the service would make it better. Yahoo acquired MyBlogLog in the interest of giving bloggers a solution to keep track of their community and to share common interests. I have been using MyBlogLog since the early days (2007) when I started blogging.
It offered visitors to your blog a chance to be included in that “box-with-a-lot-of-heads”.
What a pleasant surprise when I opened my Yahoo Mail a couple of days ago.
It seems that Yahoo has finally seen the value of multiple sign ins and has offered “connect” options via Facebook and Google. Glad to see that the Internet giants have finally seen it this way. It won’t be long that other services follow suit. I remember talking about this as a ‘trend’ in previous posts.
Cheers!
Let me just share with you the Top 10 search terms on Google and Yahoo by Filipinos. There’s a great difference between searches from the 2 search giants. For Google, the top search term was “lyrics” while Yahoo had “American Idol” as the top search term for last year.
The complete Top 10 list after the jump.
Posted in Blogging, Infotech 
Tags: 2008, Blogging, google, Infotech, philippines, search, technology, yahooWhen youtube combined videos and the Internet and elevated it to Web 2.0, it made waves. Now, another player is preparing to surf those waves and hopes it won’t wipeout.
Yahoo Live made its debut last Feb 8, 2008. Due to a LOT of traffic, they had to do several downtimes. A good sign, mayhaps.
Now what the $*#&@ is Y! Live?
In a nutshell, it’s youtube on overdose – it allows you to make streaming, LIVE video channels and cater to your viewers or fans. Here’s what the folks at the Y! Live official blog have to say about this new service “How is Y! Live different from other online video sites? That’s simple: it’s live. What you’re watching, right now, is what other people are watching, right now. We wanted to create an experience that takes us back to live television, where things are happening now, in real time.” said Michael Quoc, Yahoo Director for Advanced Products.
In what appears to be an apparent move to shake off the “world’s number one brand”, Google, off its pedestal, Microsoft has just made a whopping $44.6 Billion offer to Yahoo.
Engadget, in its breaking news story, wrote that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said that, “We have great respect for Yahoo!, and together we can offer an increasingly exciting set of solutions for consumers, publishers and advertisers while becoming better positioned to compete in the online services market.”
Balmer also adds; “Today, the market is increasingly dominated by one player who is consolidating its dominance through acquisition. Together, Microsoft and Yahoo! can offer a credible alternative for consumers, advertisers, and publishers.”
Isn’t it obvious who that “player” is? Cough-cough.
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