Yahoo: the Super Network

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A better story in Wired, than the cover story (which I criticized yesterday), on how Yahoo is applying its resources across the wide range of video on the Web, for its services. Besides the usual story about Yahoo’s increasing Hollywood focus, it has some good info on Yahoo’s video search efforts.

“[Bradley Horowitz, senior director of Yahoo!’s Technology Development Group]’s favorite project is incorporating people-powered metadata systems from two other Yahoo properties: the recommendation technology from Yahoo! Music and the tagging features from Flickr…Google’s original stroke of genius was figuring out how to piggyback on human judgment by following the links people make between Web sites. Horowitz is borrowing functionality from two Yahoo! properties to develop something similar for video.”

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