Comments on: Yahoo’s Baby Steps to Phone 2.0 http://gigaom.com/2008/01/07/yahoos-baby-steps-to-phone-20/ Trusted Insights and Conversations on the Next Wave of Technology Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:25:55 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Yahoo, Please Put Up A Fight » Ecommerce Blog http://gigaom.com/2008/01/07/yahoos-baby-steps-to-phone-20/#comment-857507 Yahoo, Please Put Up A Fight » Ecommerce Blog Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:21:16 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2008/01/07/yahoos-baby-steps-to-phone-20/#comment-857507 <p>[...] has a staggering 500 million users. However, it does a rather poor job of monetization. The vision that Yang shared at CES last week (“At Yahoo we want to be the most essential starting point for your life”) can come [...]</p> [...] has a staggering 500 million users. However, it does a rather poor job of monetization. The vision that Yang shared at CES last week (“At Yahoo we want to be the most essential starting point for your life”) can come [...]

]]> By: Yahoo, Please Put Up A Fight - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2008/01/07/yahoos-baby-steps-to-phone-20/#comment-857503 Yahoo, Please Put Up A Fight - GigaOM Tue, 22 Jan 2008 08:01:35 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2008/01/07/yahoos-baby-steps-to-phone-20/#comment-857503 <p>[...] has a staggering 500 million users. However, it does a rather poor job of monetization. The vision that Yang shared at CES last week (“At Yahoo we want to be the most essential starting point for your life”) can come [...]</p> [...] has a staggering 500 million users. However, it does a rather poor job of monetization. The vision that Yang shared at CES last week (“At Yahoo we want to be the most essential starting point for your life”) can come [...]

]]> By: Shai Berger http://gigaom.com/2008/01/07/yahoos-baby-steps-to-phone-20/#comment-837417 Shai Berger Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:16:52 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2008/01/07/yahoos-baby-steps-to-phone-20/#comment-837417 <p>Yahoo's Go platform is definitely less technically impressive than Android. But it may be a smarter move because it allows a larger ecosystem of developers to iterate through ideas quickly, on a large number of devices, and starting immediately. Yahoo is giving them a standard platform, some promotion through the "go" site, and even ad serving abilities. Now you tweak ad model and features in a nice sandbox.</p> <p>Although there is no carrier partner now, the widget model is ultimately more carrier friendly (i.e. less threatening). Google's approach requires carriers to take an all-or-nothing plunge into a new mobile OS, where they will have no control over user experience at all, i.e. become dumb pipes. Maybe being a dumb pipe pays off bigger anyway (ask AT&T or Orange when the dust settles on iPhone's first year) but it's going to be very hard convincing a carrier to make that bet.</p> <p>A couple more thoughts here: http://www.shaiberger.com/?p=51</p> Yahoo’s Go platform is definitely less technically impressive than Android. But it may be a smarter move because it allows a larger ecosystem of developers to iterate through ideas quickly, on a large number of devices, and starting immediately. Yahoo is giving them a standard platform, some promotion through the “go” site, and even ad serving abilities. Now you tweak ad model and features in a nice sandbox.

Although there is no carrier partner now, the widget model is ultimately more carrier friendly (i.e. less threatening). Google’s approach requires carriers to take an all-or-nothing plunge into a new mobile OS, where they will have no control over user experience at all, i.e. become dumb pipes. Maybe being a dumb pipe pays off bigger anyway (ask AT&T or Orange when the dust settles on iPhone’s first year) but it’s going to be very hard convincing a carrier to make that bet.

A couple more thoughts here: http://www.shaiberger.com/?p=51

]]> By: rose http://gigaom.com/2008/01/07/yahoos-baby-steps-to-phone-20/#comment-834969 rose Tue, 08 Jan 2008 07:24:36 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2008/01/07/yahoos-baby-steps-to-phone-20/#comment-834969 <p>http://www.bywifi.com is another good mobile website. It provides searching, saving and realtime transcoding 3GP video services for mobile phones. It also optimizes Web pages for mobile phones, providing a richer browsing experience.</p> <p>It is the first in the world to launch the 3gp realtime transcoding service for internet video websites, such as youtube.com. It is different with yahoo! in that it provides realtime transcoding for both video and web pages.</p> http://www.bywifi.com is another good mobile website. It provides searching, saving and realtime transcoding 3GP video services for mobile phones. It also optimizes Web pages for mobile phones, providing a richer browsing experience.

It is the first in the world to launch the 3gp realtime transcoding service for internet video websites, such as youtube.com. It is different with yahoo! in that it provides realtime transcoding for both video and web pages.

]]>