About five years ago, I realized that Yahoo was releasing a whole bunch of different services on the web such as Yahoo Mail, Groups, Briefcase, etc and all of it was for free. Obviously, giving away stuff isn’t a sustainable business model so I wondered what they were going to do to make money. Their bright idea was to offer premium services at a cost which realistically was much less popular than their free services.

So now, I see them snapping up a load of popular services that so called alpha geeks use: Flickr, del.icio.us, upcoming.org, blo.gs, consumating, Konfabulator, and many more. So what are they going to do now? the same strategy as before? or are they going to sell ads through them with Overture? I have no idea, but I hope they are more successful then last time.

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