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There was big news of partnership between Yahoo! and Microsoft. After the war of acquisition between Jerry Yang and Steve Ballmer, Yahoo got new woman CEO Carol Bartz and she finished remained problems that everyone minds. Most of news media wrote Yahoo! surrendered to Microsoft and Yahoo's stock was down. In addtion Jason Calacanis wrote Yahoo committed seppuku today. But, I think this partnership is very positive for sustainable survival of Yahoo! in long term. Yahoo has very strong properties as like mail, news, finance, entertainment and Flickr. If Microsoft acquired Yahoo in last year, I'm not sure whether ...

Yahoo! Answers released knowledge API today for developers to access Y!A database. The Yahoo's knowledge database has been growing in the world except korean market. Naver was first mover with typical mass in this market. Also it released Naver Knowledge API on July, 2006. But it's not public why it only offered to own knowledge sponsors. What's knowledge sponsors? The knowledge sponsor means bussiness partners to offer continually answers to questions from Naver. For example, if someone asks a general dental issue, one of dentists will give an answer to Naver and a business logo and URL link of answerer is ...

Techcrunch reported the launch of Cyworld US and Webzari, visualization service of blogs. The "Zari" means asterism in Korean. It firstly introduced Yahoo! Korea. I'm very glad to see korean web service in Techcrunch. Some of comments for Cyworld US was negative. But, I think now american teenagers are very similar with old korean's teenagers firstly being good at broadband network. In past, many old man in web2con in 2005 were suprised at stories in teenager session. (A girl paid $30 per month to change her phone bells.) Most of them don't use MySpace and cannot understand why teenagers do ...

Recently Google presented own future strategy to stock analysts. Also Yahoo hosts Yahoo! Analyst Day with Semel and all of core managers of Yahoo! You can download presentation files. In summary, they want to offer good experiences and become the major contents distribution platform. I remarked Jeff Weiner's social search session. This means collaborative search based on Q&A based knowledge, sharing tagged bookmarks and photo images of Del.icio.us and Flickr. These trend of search is based on not crawling web page but user-generated content in database. Yahoo! Answers is representative of social search copied a success of Naver Knowledge In. ...