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            <title>Open Source Days 2008 , Day 2</title>
            <link>http://swik.net/MySQL/Planet+MySQL/Open+Source+Days+2008+%2C+Day+2/cgq71</link>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;As I was already up since yesterday 0500 , it was dinner with Sven , Robin and some other conference visitors at a Turkish Buffet place , after which we headed to what seemed to be a great bar where they failed to serve us while waiting for over 10 minutes, so we moved on to another place. and then to be &quot;early&quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After walking around a bit in Copenhagen and looking for a bus stop to go to the university I managed to bump into Wim &amp;amp; Co who offered me a ride to the IT University. Where I was almost in time for the first talk by&lt;br/&gt;
Jan Wieck about Slony-I,  A master to multiple slaves-replication system for PostgreSQL&lt;br/&gt;
Given my recent MySQL MultiMaster setups I was fairly interested where PostgreSQL is at today.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jan started out with explaining where he used replication the most,&lt;br/&gt;
For backups and    Specialized services  so he could offload long running and intrusive reporting tools to an isiolated server.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;While going over the history of Slony he also mentioned eRserver, first written in Perl later  rewritten  in Java and that was a ...   Well lets just say that memory usage wasn&#039;t really ideal.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The presentation covered different potential replication scenarios and the problems one could run into.&lt;br/&gt;
No sign however of multimaster replication.  Jan Wieck even told us he had no plans to implmenent multimaster replication&lt;br/&gt;
at all at the moment.   To me MultiMaster means that I can move my database connection together with my application service in a HA setup.  I don&#039;t need to wory about the possibility of writing in a slave and breaking replication  as the slave is also a master and the other node Will catch up.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Next up was a talk about openID, which made me realize a couple of things about it..  all off that in a separate post :)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The University restaurant was open and you could pay for your Chilli Con Carne to a really Grumpy cashier which brings me right to the next talk I followed..  A Developers Guide to Grumpy Old Sysadmins however, the majority of people in the room were Sysadmins , or people with a mixed role doing both development and sysadmin work.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You don&#039;t let your developers even close to your production systems.  He then went on to read a fairly big part of &quot;Over Clocked,  Stories of the Future Present &quot; by Cory Doctorow ,  which I&#039;ve  promptly put on my holliday reading list :&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So what&#039;s it like being a sysadmin ?  You get calls in the middle of the night because a system breaks,&lt;br/&gt;
When you work you .. people complain when things go wrong.. they don&#039;t cheer when things go right or when you have done your job correctly&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Reminds me of this situation at a customer where the Cisco people that fail to automate their work and  get to travel around the qworld to do  their work using their serial console , where as the Linux platform team has automated their work so far they get to stay home and watch the machines boot  then do a quick check over ssh to see if they actually work.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Anyhow.. the talk really wasn&#039;t focusing on how developers could cooperate better with sysadmins, apart from a couple of general tips  so it really missed its goal.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I popped into the Lightning talk about Ubuntu on EEE talk , hoping to learn something, apart from 1 url that I should read I guess it was the otherway around  , it&#039;s usually a bad sign when a speaker starts every 2 slides with &quot;I haven&#039;t tested this myselve but &quot; ...&lt;/p&gt;</description>
            
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            <title>August 14th 2006 - Zedomax Celebrates 2 Year Anniversary Yey!</title>
            <link>http://swik.net/User:zedomax/Zedomax/August+14th+2006+-+Zedomax+Celebrates+2+Year+Anniversary+Yey%21/ccjqf</link>
            <description>&lt;p style=&quot;text-align: center;&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;alignnone size-medium wp-image-8751 aligncenter&quot; title=&quot;zedomax&quot; src=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/zedomax-595x690.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;August 14th 2006 - Zedomax Celebrates 2 Year Anniversary Yey!&quot; width=&quot;595&quot; height=&quot;690&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;For what seemed like eternity, it has officially been 2 years since I&amp;#8217;ve started a Wordpress blog.  Of course, my stats aren&amp;#8217;t the greatest in the world but we are on a stable long-term rise.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As for Zedomax.com, here&amp;#8217;s the stats in the last 2 years:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Total Page Loads(Views): 4,155,070 - Over 4 Million baby!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Total Unique Visitors: 2,776,614 - Not too shabby here.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Average Page Loads: 5,676&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Average Unique Visitors: 3,793&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#8217;s hard to believe that the website I&amp;#8217;ve created at my previous job to market &lt;a href=&quot;http://CUBLOC.COM&quot;&gt;CUBLOC&lt;/a&gt; products has started life of its own and is feeding the author food/rent.  Of course, now I am glad that I am no longer working a 8 to 5 job, stuck behind a cubicle.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am still stuck behind the computer as Zedomax.com isn&amp;#8217;t making millions. (yet&amp;#8230;LOL)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Oh well, there goes another 2 years of my life, all wasted away to blogging.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Goals for next year?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Well, goals are overrated.  I&amp;#8217;d like to enjoy life and share what I find, that&amp;#8217;s all.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Anyways, thanks goes to our latest sponsor, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.WonderHowTo.com&quot;&gt;WonderHowTo.com&lt;/a&gt; and all the blogs/bloggers:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Laptops,notebooks, and PMPs&quot; href=&quot;http://laptoppimp.com/&quot;&gt;0 - LaptopPimp.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;1 Million in 365 Days&quot; href=&quot;http://mi11ion.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;1 Million in 365 Days&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Akiba Gadgets&quot; href=&quot;http://www.akiba-gadgets.com/&quot;&gt;Akiba Gadgets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;BEDzine is an online magazine about beds and furniture&quot; rel=&quot;friend&quot; href=&quot;http://bedzine.com/&quot;&gt;BEDzine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Bloggin-Ads.com!&quot; href=&quot;http://bloggin-ads.com/&quot;&gt;Bloggin-Ads.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Cigarettes and Funny stories has lots of funny stuff on smoking.&quot; href=&quot;http://cigarettestories.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;Cigarettes and Funny stories&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Cool car gadgets has car related gadgets and also other cool gadgets!&quot; href=&quot;http://daily-gadgets.blogspot.com/&quot;&gt;Cool Car Gadgets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Collection of videos that are Da Bomb!&quot; href=&quot;http://dabomb.tv/&quot;&gt;Da Bomb TV!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Cool DIYs here&quot; href=&quot;http://diylive.net/&quot;&gt;DIY live&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Engadget has good gadgets&quot; href=&quot;http://engadget.com/&quot;&gt;Engadget&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Geeks Inside&quot; href=&quot;http://geeksinside.com/&quot;&gt;Geeks Inside&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;GetUSB.info is a News Publication about developing USB Powered Gadgets and other gadget related products.&quot; href=&quot;http://www.getusb.info/&quot;&gt;GetUSBInfo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Lots and Lots of gizmos&quot; href=&quot;http://gizmodo.com/&quot;&gt;gizmodo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Lots of hack, especially for your XBOX, PSP, PS2, and more…&quot; href=&quot;http://hackaday.com/&quot;&gt;hackaday&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Cool hacks and gadgets here&quot; href=&quot;http://hackedgadgets.com/&quot;&gt;Hacked Gadgets&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;New blog about Hacks and more!&quot; href=&quot;http://hackszine.com/&quot;&gt;Hackszine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;HiFi Ring!&quot; href=&quot;http://hifi-ring.com/&quot;&gt;HiFi Ring!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Josh’s Unconventional Marketing Blog&quot; href=&quot;http://www.joshwhitford.com/&quot;&gt;Josh’s Unconventional Marketing Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Keetsa! Blog has some fun eco-friendly and green stuff…&quot; href=&quot;http://keetsa.com/blog&quot;&gt;Keetsa!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;make brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life.&quot; href=&quot;http://www.makezine.com/blog/&quot;&gt;make&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;MyDeepLinks&quot; href=&quot;http://mydeeplinks.com/&quot;&gt;MyDeepLinks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;NewDirectoryList&quot; href=&quot;http://www.newdirectorylist.com/&quot;&gt;NewDirectoryList&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Nexcopy USB Duplicators&quot; href=&quot;http://www.nexcopy.com/&quot;&gt;Nexcopy USB Duplicators&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;ProGolferDigest brings you the best info for improving your golf game.&quot; href=&quot;http://progolferdigest.com/&quot;&gt;ProGolferDigest&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Reality Wired has good stuff about the internet technologies and other goodies&quot; href=&quot;http://www.realitywired.com/&quot;&gt;Reality Wired&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Renewed Web Directory&quot; href=&quot;http://www.renewed.biz/&quot;&gt;Renewed Web Directory&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Blog about San Francisco and the Bay Area&quot; href=&quot;http://sfblogg.com/&quot;&gt;SF Blogg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Blog about sLEEP!&quot; rel=&quot;friend&quot; href=&quot;http://sleepzine.com/&quot;&gt;SLEEPzine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Latest tech &amp;amp; Gadgets&quot; href=&quot;http://www.techeblog.com/&quot;&gt;techeblog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;TheTechInside!&quot; href=&quot;http://www.thetechinside.com/&quot;&gt;TheTechInside!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Making your life easier ten tips at a time&quot; href=&quot;http://www.tipdiva.com/&quot;&gt;Tip Diva&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Total Web Review&quot; href=&quot;http://www.totalwebreview.info/&quot;&gt;Total Web Review&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;TysBlog&quot; href=&quot;http://www.tysblog.com/&quot;&gt;TysBlog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;Wagg.It is a blog voting community for bloggers&quot; href=&quot;http://wagg.it/blog&quot;&gt;Wagg.It&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a title=&quot;YourItronics!&quot; href=&quot;http://www.youritronics.com/&quot;&gt;YourItronics!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Brought to you by: &lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog&quot;&gt;Zedomax.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/2008/08/14/august-14th-2006-zedomax-celebrates-2-year-anniversary-yey/&quot;&gt;August 14th 2006 - Zedomax Celebrates 2 Year Anniversary Yey!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

	&lt;span style=&quot;display:none&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/tag/1-million/&quot; title=&quot;1 million&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;1 million&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/tag/365-days/&quot; title=&quot;365 days&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;365 days&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/category/afeatured/&quot; title=&quot;A+Featured&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;A+Featured&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/tag/blogg/&quot; title=&quot;blogg&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;blogg&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/tag/car-gadgets/&quot; title=&quot;car gadgets&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;car gadgets&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/tag/cigarettes/&quot; title=&quot;cigarettes&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cigarettes&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/tag/cool-car/&quot; title=&quot;cool car&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;cool car&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/tag/da-bomb/&quot; title=&quot;da-bomb&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;da-bomb&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/tag/directory-sf/&quot; title=&quot;directory sf&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;directory sf&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/tag/diva/&quot; title=&quot;diva&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;diva&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/tag/eternity/&quot; title=&quot;eternity&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;eternity&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/tag/geeks/&quot; title=&quot;geeks&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;geeks&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/tag/gizmodo/&quot; title=&quot;gizmodo&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;gizmodo&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/tag/page-loads/&quot; title=&quot;page loads&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;page loads&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/tag/techeblog/&quot; title=&quot;techeblog&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;techeblog&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/tag/unique-visitors/&quot; title=&quot;unique-visitors&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;unique-visitors&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/tag/wagg/&quot; title=&quot;wagg&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;wagg&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/tag/web-directory/&quot; title=&quot;web directory&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;web directory&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/tag/years-of-my-life/&quot; title=&quot;years of my life&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;years of my life&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/tag/zedomax/&quot; title=&quot;Zedomax&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;Zedomax&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;

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	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/2006/12/27/wii-hack-woomba-wii-controller-roomba/&quot; title=&quot;Wii HACK - Woomba, Wii controller + Roomba! (December 27, 2006)&quot;&gt;Wii HACK - Woomba, Wii controller + Roomba!&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Zedomaxcom?a=lMZ2fx&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/Zedomaxcom?i=lMZ2fx&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class=&quot;feedflare&quot;&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Zedomaxcom?a=VlULvK&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Zedomaxcom?i=VlULvK&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Zedomaxcom?a=woXRck&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Zedomaxcom?i=woXRck&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Zedomaxcom?a=JuBZLk&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Zedomaxcom?i=JuBZLk&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Zedomaxcom?a=PP2t9k&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Zedomaxcom?i=PP2t9k&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Zedomaxcom?a=QR7X9K&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Zedomaxcom?i=QR7X9K&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Zedomaxcom?a=J3oehK&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Zedomaxcom?i=J3oehK&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Zedomaxcom?a=RaGRIK&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/Zedomaxcom?i=RaGRIK&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;/img&gt;&lt;/a&gt;
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            <pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:15:44 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title>Back To The Future Hoverboard Scene!</title>
            <link>http://swik.net/User:zedomax/Zedomax/Back+To+The+Future+Hoverboard+Scene%21/cbko9</link>
            <description>&lt;div class=&quot;video youtube&quot;&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;object width=&quot;690&quot; height=&quot;512&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/vsgIzU51Mr0&quot;/&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowScriptAccess&quot; value=&quot;sameDomain&quot;/&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;menu&quot; value=&quot;false&quot;/&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;quality&quot; value=&quot;best&quot;/&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;bgcolor&quot; value=&quot;#ffffff&quot;/&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;scale&quot; value=&quot;doesaffect&quot;/&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;wmode&quot; value=&quot;transparent&quot;/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://download.macromedia.com/&quot;&gt;Download latest version of Flash to view video!&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/vsgIzU51Mr0&quot; class=&quot;lightwindow&quot;&gt; Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Remember the &lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/2008/07/24/original-back-to-the-future-hoverboard-on-auction-for-30k-min/&quot;&gt;original hoverboard on sale for $30K on eBay&lt;/a&gt;?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Well, here&amp;#8217;s a clip from the movie to remind you of the good ol&amp;#8217; days.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://gizmodo.com/5029595/back-to-the-future-hoverboard-auction-starts-at-30000&quot;&gt;video via gizmodo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Brought to you by: &lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog&quot;&gt;Zedomax.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/2008/07/27/back-to-the-future-hoverboard-scene/&quot;&gt;Back To The Future Hoverboard Scene!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

	&lt;span style=&quot;display:none&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/tag/30k/&quot; title=&quot;30k&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;30k&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/tag/back-to-the-future/&quot; title=&quot;back-to-the-future&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;back-to-the-future&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/category/ct/&quot; title=&quot;Consumer&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;Consumer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/category/cool/&quot; title=&quot;Cool&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;Cool&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/tag/ebay/&quot; title=&quot;ebay&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;ebay&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/category/entertainment/&quot; title=&quot;Entertainment&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;Entertainment&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/tag/good-ol-days/&quot; title=&quot;good ol days&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;good ol days&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/tag/hoverboard/&quot; title=&quot;hoverboard&quot; rel=&quot;tag&quot;&gt;hoverboard&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;

	&lt;h3&gt;Related posts&lt;/h3&gt;
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	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/2008/07/24/original-back-to-the-future-hoverboard-on-auction-for-30k-min/&quot; title=&quot;Original Back to the Future Hoverboard on auction for $30K min! (July 24, 2008)&quot;&gt;Original Back to the Future Hoverboard on auction for $30K min!&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/2007/02/08/roboman-hoverboard/&quot; title=&quot;Roboman Hoverboard! (February 8, 2007)&quot;&gt;Roboman Hoverboard!&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/2006/10/06/zedomax-diy-113-build-a-bluetooth-controlled-holloween-hovercraft-party-light/&quot; title=&quot;Zedomax DIY 113 - Build a bluetooth controlled Holloween Hovercraft party light! (October 6, 2006)&quot;&gt;Zedomax DIY 113 - Build a bluetooth controlled Holloween Hovercraft party light!&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/2006/10/03/zedomax-diy-112-zedomax-hovercraft-version-2-asteroid/&quot; title=&quot;Zedomax DIY 112 - Zedomax Hovercraft version 2 - Asteroid! (October 3, 2006)&quot;&gt;Zedomax DIY 112 - Zedomax Hovercraft version 2 - Asteroid!&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/2006/11/11/video-segway-x2-on-rugged-terrains/&quot; title=&quot;Video - Segway X2 on rugged terrains (November 11, 2006)&quot;&gt;Video - Segway X2 on rugged terrains&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/2006/12/27/video-hoverbike-hoverboard-segway/&quot; title=&quot;Video - Hoverbike, Hoverboard + Segway (December 27, 2006)&quot;&gt;Video - Hoverbike, Hoverboard + Segway&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/2006/10/05/ultra-simple-hovercraft-can-lift-several-adults/&quot; title=&quot;ULTRA-SIMPLE HOVERCRAFT can lift several adults! (October 5, 2006)&quot;&gt;ULTRA-SIMPLE HOVERCRAFT can lift several adults!&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
	&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://zedomax.com/blog/2008/05/20/the-45000-classic-car-couchsofa/&quot; title=&quot;The $45,000 Classic Car Couch/Sofa! (May 20, 2008)&quot;&gt;The $45,000 Classic Car Couch/Sofa!&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
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            <link>http://swik.net/MySQL/Planet+MySQL/Sun+Developer+Days+Singapore%2C+MySQL+Meetup/b9n04</link>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;In addition to having the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/07/07/malaysia-university-days&quot;&gt;Malaysia University Days&lt;/a&gt;, there&amp;#8217;s something brewing in Singapore too.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First up, there is the Singapore MySQL Meetup Group, having a &lt;a href=&quot;http://mysql.meetup.com/72/calendar/8290931/&quot;&gt;meeting&lt;/a&gt; in July, at a new location (Sun Solutions Centre, Central Mall). Confirm your &lt;a href=&quot;http://mysql.meetup.com/72/calendar/8290931/&quot;&gt;attendance&lt;/a&gt; for a meetup at 7pm on Monday, July 14 2008.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And the other reason to be in Singapore, is the &lt;a href=&quot;http://enterprise.circusmax.com:80/e1/hello/LoadMainPage?EventID=p477jeqq&quot;&gt;Sun Developer Days 2008 Singapore&lt;/a&gt;, happening on Tuesday, July 15, 2008. This is an all-day long event, held at the Hilton Hotel - &lt;a href=&quot;http://enterprise.circusmax.com:80/e1/hello/LoadRegPage?EventID=p477jeqq&quot;&gt;register now&lt;/a&gt;! The &lt;a href=&quot;http://enterprise.circusmax.com:80/e1/hello/Load?EventID=p477jeqq&amp;amp;Pg=agenda&quot;&gt;agenda&lt;/a&gt; is packed, and there is a big web focus: profile applications using the NetBeans IDE, MySQL, and using DTrace on Web applications (from JavaScript to the database).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So there, two events next week, in Singapore: &lt;a href=&quot;http://mysql.meetup.com/72/calendar/8290931/&quot;&gt;MySQL Meetup&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://enterprise.circusmax.com:80/e1/hello/LoadMainPage?EventID=p477jeqq&quot;&gt;Sun Developer Days&lt;/a&gt;. See you there.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
            
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            <link>http://swik.net/MySQL/Planet+MySQL/Malaysia+University+Days/b9i4q</link>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;#8217;s a packed schedule. There will be a Sun crew visiting these universities between 16-17 July 2008. Will you be there? Where you&amp;#8217;ll meet the &lt;em&gt;rock stars&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;li&gt;Wednesday, 16 July 2008, 9am - noon: Multimedia University, Cyberjaya&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Wednesday, 16 July 2008, 2pm - 5pm: Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Thursday, 17 July 2008, 9am - noon: Management &amp;amp; Science University, Shah Alam&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Thursday, 17 July 2008, 2pm - 5pm: INTI, Subang&lt;/li&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;And what exactly will we be talking about? Besides the keynote, and tech demos, there will be focus on NetBeans (a fabulous IDE), an introduction to OpenSolaris, JavaFX, and of course, MySQL.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We all have 30 minute session slots, and the focus is rather developer centric, so I&amp;#8217;m wondering what is best to cover in 30 minutes (what one can probably talk about in 5 days even)? Condensed talk on storage engines, index types, etc. ?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;My fear is that I&amp;#8217;ll largely be talking to a crowd that has seen and used a database, and its called Access. MySQL will be new to them. Not having a &amp;#8220;front-end&amp;#8221; per se, ala Access, might be scary. Then again, hooking up OpenOffice.org Base and Workbench might be the way to go for a glitzy presentation&amp;#8230;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
            
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            <link>http://swik.net/MySQL/Planet+MySQL/MySQL+at+the+Sun+Tech+Days%2C+Philippines/b7fid</link>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;In what I think must be MySQL&amp;#8217;s first time in the Philippines, there will be a presence there next week. Well, its not the first time, but in terms of a community/developer event, I think it might be. The &lt;a href=&quot;http://enterprise.circusmax.com:80/e1/hello/LoadMainPage?EventID=q426ixym&quot;&gt;Sun Tech Days&lt;/a&gt; is happening from &lt;strong&gt;17-19 June 2008&lt;/strong&gt;, in the &lt;strong&gt;Shangri-La Makati&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Besides MySQL, expect great talks on NetBeans, GlassFish, OpenSolaris, and so much more. I&amp;#8217;ll be the guy walking around in the MySQL shirt, so feel free to stop me and ask questions. Its exciting for me, as we&amp;#8217;ve not really paid much attention to the Philippines, in terms of community growth (and the Philippines is in the APAC region!).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This isn&amp;#8217;t a free event (its 1,000 PHP = ~USD23), and registration should still be available. If you&amp;#8217;d like to meet up, and talk MySQL, shoot me an email at colinATmysqlDOTcom or reach me via mobile at +6-012-204-3201. If you&amp;#8217;d like to help organise a &lt;a href=&quot;http://mysql.meetup.com/174/&quot;&gt;MySQL Meetup in Manila&lt;/a&gt;, do ping me too.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
            
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            <title>Google Developer Days 2008: expanding to thirteen locations</title>
            <link>http://swik.net/Google/Updates+from+code.google.com/Google+Developer+Days+2008%3A+expanding+to+thirteen+locations/b4jvc</link>
            <description>&lt;span style=&quot;font-style: italic;&quot; class=&quot;byline-author&quot;&gt;By Elizabeth Yin, Google Developer Programs&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/events/developerday/&quot;&gt;Google Developer Days 2008&lt;/a&gt;, a set of one-day developer events, are back and will take place in locations around the world.  We&#039;ve designed these events for developers with strong coding backgrounds, so that we can discuss our APIs, developer tools and applications.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;We&#039;ll host Google Developer Day in these locations:&lt;br/&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/intl/ja/events/developerday/home.html&quot; title=&quot;Yokohama, Japan&quot;&gt;Yokohama, Japan&lt;/a&gt;  (June 10)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/intl/zh-CN/events/developerday/home.html&quot; title=&quot;Beijing, China&quot;&gt;Beijing, China&lt;/a&gt;  (June 12)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/intl/zh-TW/events/developerday/home.html&quot; title=&quot;Taipei, Taiwan&quot;&gt;Taipei, Taiwan&lt;/a&gt;  (June 14)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/events/developerday/home.html&quot; title=&quot;Sydney, Australia&quot;&gt;Sydney, Australia&lt;/a&gt;  (June 18)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; Mexico City, Mexico (June 23)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sao Paulo, Brazil (June 27)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;London, UK (Sept 16)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; Paris, France (Sept 18)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; Munich, Germany (Sept 23)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Madrid, Spain (Sept 25)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt; Milan, Italy (Oct 21)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Prague, Czech (Oct 23)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Moscow, Russia (Oct 28)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;If you&#039;re based in the US, we encourage you to come to &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/events/io/&quot;&gt;Google I/O&lt;/a&gt;, on May 28-29 in San Francisco.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;At Google Developer Day, our engineers will share their inside knowledge on our developer tools and APIs, including &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/android/&quot;&gt;Android&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/&quot;&gt;OpenSocial&lt;/a&gt;, and &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/appengine/&quot;&gt;AppEngine&lt;/a&gt;.  In many locations we&#039;ll do deep dives into code and conduct hands-on codelabs.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;We&#039;ve posted &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/events/developerday/&quot;&gt;detailed information&lt;/a&gt; for our early dates and will be adding more information for other locations soon.  If you&#039;re a developer, we encourage you to &lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/events/developerday/&quot;&gt;sign-up&lt;/a&gt; for a Google Developer Day at a nearby location.  Hope to see you there.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Update: Corrected the September 23rd event location from Hamburg, Germany to Munich, Germany.&lt;div class=&quot;feedflare&quot;&gt;
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            <title>Self-Help Site First30Days.com Launches With $5 Million from Hearst and Dick Parsons</title>
            <link>http://swik.net/Web2.0/TechCrunch/Self-Help+Site+First30Days.com+Launches+With+%245+Million+from+Hearst+and+Dick+Parsons/b2rbx</link>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.first30days.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/first-30-days-logo-2.png&quot; class=&quot;shot2&quot; alt=&quot;first-30-days-logo-2.png&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Self-help is big business—just look at all the Tony Robbins and &lt;em&gt;Dummies&lt;/em&gt; books at your local Barnes &amp;amp; Noble.  As with all media businesses, the self-help industry is moving online in a massive way.  The latest Website to organize itself around self-help is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.first30days.com/&quot;&gt;First 30 Days&lt;/a&gt;, which took the covers off its private beta this weekend.  The new site is designed to take people through the first 30 days (and beyond) of major life changes, such as the first 30 days of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.first30days.com/finding-your-dream-job&quot;&gt;finding your dream job&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.first30days.com/starting-a-new-business&quot;&gt;starting a new business&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.first30days.com/buying-a-home&quot;&gt;buying a home&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.first30days.com/being-pregnant&quot;&gt;being pregnant&lt;/a&gt;, or &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.first30days.com/getting-divorced&quot;&gt;getting a divorce.&lt;/a&gt;  Founder and CEO Ariane de Bonvoisin tells me, &amp;#8220;We will help you through any change that life throws you and will help you get going on anything you want to get started.&amp;#8221;  The site is launching with 45 different life changes and will soon get up to 100.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Before founding First 30 Days, de Bonvoisin worked as a corporate strategist/VC at Bertelsmann, Sony, and Time Warner.  At Time Warner, she worked directly for former CEO Dick Parsons, who personally put up the seed money for the business.  The company recently closed a $5 million series A financing, led by Hearst Corporation (other investors included Parsons and the New York City Investment Fund).  The site plans to make money with ads and sponsorships targeted at each life change—stroller ads for people looking at how to deal with pregnancy or being a new parent pages, banking ads for people contemplating starting a new business.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/first30days-7.png&quot; title=&quot;first30days-7.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/first-30-days-business-small.png&quot; class=&quot;shot&quot; alt=&quot;first-30-days-business-small.png&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I suspect that First 30 Days will appeal more to the Oprah crowd than to readers of TechCrunch, but I also suspect it will have no problem finding its audience.  The site will likely skew two-thirds towards women, predicts De Bonvoisin, (indeed, it&amp;#8217;s the type of concept you&amp;#8217;d expect to see on the cover of a woman&amp;#8217;s magazine).  But she hopes men who wouldn&amp;#8217;t be caught dead reading a self-help book in public will flock to the site as well in search of answers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After all, people going through major changes in their work or personal lives need a place to turn to when they cannot figure out what to do.   Visitors are encouraged to sign up to get a daily e-mail with a different tip about the particular change they are going through. Each life change has its own section on the site, with Top 5 Things to Do, expert interviews, daily news and blog posts from across the Web on that topic, a daily tip, community Q&amp;amp;A, shared wisdom from readers, and links to relevant books, websites, magazines, movies, music, and more experts.  There is also a weekly podcast called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.first30days.com/change-nation.html&quot;&gt;Change Nation&lt;/a&gt; that features interviews with celebrities about how they deal with change.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The site takes a positive approach to dealing with the changes in your life.  Its overriding message is: change is inevitable, change is good, make the most from it.  The whole approach reminds me of corporate change management techniques applied to people&amp;#8217;s personal lives.  I&amp;#8217;m surprised it hasn&amp;#8217;t happened sooner.  Each change section on the site follows a familiar template, which provides easy entry points, but sometimes can make every life change sound the same.  For instance, look at the two lists of Top 5 Things to Do below.  One is for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.first30days.com/improving-your-sex-life&quot;&gt;improving your sex life&lt;/a&gt; and the other is for &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.first30days.com/switching-to-a-mac&quot;&gt;switching to a Mac&lt;/a&gt;.  You can tell which is which, but barely:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/first30days-4.png&quot; title=&quot;first30days-4.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/first30days-4.png&quot; alt=&quot;first30days-4.png&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/first30days-6.png&quot; title=&quot;first30days-6.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/first30days-6.png&quot; alt=&quot;first30days-6.png&quot;/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Dig deeper and you&amp;#8217;ll find some actual advice,and maybe others going through the same change.  That is potentially the most powerful aspect of the site, as a place to find other people who are going through the same twists in their lives as you are.  Once you go through all the expert advice  and check out the resources, that would be the biggest reason to go back.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The site is built on Ruby on Rails.  And there are two viral widgets in the works.  One is an &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.first30days.com/everyday-changes.html&quot;&gt;Everyday Change&lt;/a&gt; tip that can bring some inspirational candy to people&amp;#8217;s personal sites and pages.  The other is a Facebook app due out in March where you can select which types of changes you are going through, get tips sent to your Facebook feed, and post a bar chart that shows how many people on Facebook (who have loaded the app) are going through breakups, starting a job, or going through some other change.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;First 30 Days is starting on the Web, but it could easily expand into other media such as books and TV.  In May, HarperOne will be publishing &lt;em&gt;The First 30 Days&lt;/em&gt; by de Bonvoisin.  And she plans many more books.  &amp;#8220;The idea in my head,&amp;#8221; she says, &amp;#8220;was to start it as a book series. Dick Parsons said start it online.  With books, I have no relationship with you.&amp;#8221;  If she can make First 30 Days the first place people go to when they need help with life&amp;#8217;s transition points, it could easily become more than a 30-day habit.&lt;/p&gt;
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            <title>Panama, 6 Months On</title>
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            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/yahoo_search_logo_aug07.png&quot;/&gt;When Yahoo&#039;s next-generation online advertising system was &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/china_internet_boom_yahoo_panama.php&quot;&gt;launched on 5 February this year&lt;/a&gt;, it was expected to be a panacea for Yahoo&#039;s ailing fortunes. Yahoo&#039;s Panama ad system is &lt;a href=&quot;http://searchengineland.com/070205-090623.php&quot;&gt;designed&lt;/a&gt; to take ad quality and other factors into consideration in determining how ads are ranked on search results pages. Panama includes a new search ranking algorithm, which takes bids, ad quality and other factors into consideration. Along with the algorithm changes, there is a new pricing mechanism and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ysmblog.com/blog/2007/06/28/panama-opens-new-locks/&quot;&gt;a lot of other functionality&lt;/a&gt; for advertisers (e.g. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rimmkaufman.com/rkgblog/2007/06/05/yahoo-opens-panama-api/&quot;&gt;an API&lt;/a&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The key addition is &#039;ad quality&#039;, which Google has been doing for years with AdWords. So Panama was always going to be a game of catch up for Yahoo. With that in mind, and nearly 6 months after Panama&#039;s launch, how is it performing?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Yahoo Response&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I asked Yahoo for some data and metrics on how Panama is performing - has it increased ad sales, is the &#039;ad quality&#039; improving? Gaude Lydia Paez, Director of Corporate Communications, responded that they can&#039;t provide specific metrics around performance, given that it&#039;s tied to their financials. However she did tell me that &amp;quot;the global rollout of Panama is progressing extremely well, and we are seeing strong performance in our US O&amp;amp;O search operations.&amp;quot; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;While no metrics were given, Paez told me that in Japan they recently launched the new ranking model &amp;quot;and feedback from advertisers has been positive - clickthrough rates are up and the prices our clients pay for leads are down.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Since the launch in the U.S., Yahoo has also &amp;quot;introduced several enhancements to the model that have focused on filtering poor ads and surfacing higher quality ads to the user.&amp;quot; Paez said that Yahoo has &amp;quot;introduced quality-based pricing, which allows us to charge advertisers less for a portion of the traffic they receive, depending on the overall quality of the source.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;External Reports&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;While Yahoo itself is remaining relatively tight-lipped about Panama results, others have reported mixed results. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/013265.html&quot;&gt;Search Engine Roundtable wrote&lt;/a&gt; at the end of April that four different SEMs in a &lt;a href=&quot;http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/showthread.php?t=17318&quot;&gt;Search Engine Watch Forums&lt;/a&gt; thread noticed a drop in volume from Yahoo! Search Marketing since the Panama upgrade. One said that although &amp;quot;the interface is much better and the account maitenance is somewhat easier&amp;quot;, in terms of performance &amp;quot;we are down quite a bit from where we were pre-Panama. ROI is similar, but volume is way down.&amp;quot; Another SEM reported &amp;quot;an extreme decrease in volume.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On 20 June, &lt;a href=&quot;http://battellemedia.com/archives/003753.php&quot;&gt;John Battelle published&lt;/a&gt; a report from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reprisemedia.com/&quot;&gt;Reprise&lt;/a&gt;, a leading SEO/SEM firm that works with Battelle&#039;s company FM Publishing (R/WW is an FM Publishing client). Reprise concluded that on performance,  Yahoo&#039;s CPCs went down and click through rates went up. It stated:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;While campaign conversion rates were improved on both Google and MSN, Yahoo&#039;s conversion dropped off 5%. In other words, while perceived ad relevance may have improved, the truly important metric in the campaign suffered somewhat. &amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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  &lt;em&gt;Source: Reprise&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;The whole report is &lt;a href=&quot;http://battellemedia.com/RepriseMedia_InsidePanama.pdf&quot;&gt;available as a PDF&lt;/a&gt; on John Battelle&#039;s site, but to sum it up: the technology of Panama is promising, but it is not yet delivering on the promise. In Reprise&#039;s words:&lt;/p&gt;
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  &lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;While the launch of Project Panama represents a significant step forward for the Yahoo Search Marketing platform, it does not yet address all of the 
    requirements of the market. Though the system makes strides towards establishing industry standard campaign structure, terminology and API
    access, it often finds itself under-delivering on the actual execution of these new features.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;However Reprise notes that Panama is &amp;quot;brand new&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;needs time to find its footing and refine its offering.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Finally, a browse through &lt;a href=&quot;http://searchengineland.com/070731-081817.php&quot;&gt;Search Engine Land&#039;s recent report&lt;/a&gt; on the online advertising industry shows that not much has changed in the past six months. SEL noted that &amp;quot;Google is by far the dominant engine, and that&#039;s been the case all year, despite Yahoo&#039;s Panama launch and Microsoft&#039;s increased focus on AdCenter.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Conclusion&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I was hoping for a more conclusive 6-month report on Panama, but really the jury is still out. Yahoo itself is (unsurprisingly) reporting positive changes. Meanwhile the response from the market has been mixed, but cautiously optimistic. Most reports so far have noted Panama&#039;s promise, but that it is not yet delivering better results. The upshot is that after six months, Google is still the dominant player in online advertising and there is little sign of that changing any time soon.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you are using Panama, what have your experiences been like so far?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;With this post, we close our file on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/100_days_for_yahoo_intro.php&quot;&gt;100 Days For Yahoo&lt;/a&gt;. Let us know whether you like the idea of Read/WriteWeb Files - i.e. focusing on a specific topic over a week.&lt;/p&gt;
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            <title>Can My Yahoo Compete With Facebook and iGoogle?</title>
            <link>http://swik.net/Web2.0/Read%2FWriteWeb/Can+My+Yahoo+Compete+With+Facebook+and+iGoogle%3F/bg104</link>
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&lt;/font&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/myyahoo_aug07.png&quot; width=&quot;180px&quot;/&gt;This week&#039;s Read/WriteWeb Files is investigating the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/100_days_for_yahoo_intro.php&quot;&gt;100 Days For Yahoo&lt;/a&gt;. In a recent earnings conference call, new Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang said that &amp;quot;the next 100 days or so&amp;quot; will be spent mapping out Yahoo’s strategic plan. So we thought we&#039;d help with the strategic analysis.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/rwwfiles_yahoo.png&quot; width=&quot;180px&quot;/&gt;Yesterday I listed &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/top_10_yahoo_properties.php&quot;&gt;10 top Web properties that Yahoo owns&lt;/a&gt;. But the real question is: how to tie all of Yahoo&#039;s properties  together and &lt;em&gt;utilize them better&lt;/em&gt;? Josh Catone wrote that the solution is to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/fixing_yahoo_building_a_yahoo_platform.php&quot;&gt;make My Yahoo into an open platform&lt;/a&gt;, a la Facebook or iGoogle. Josh explained what can be done to create a more useful and meaningful Yahoo! for users, one that can keep people on the site and drive them to use their search engine. His theory:&lt;/p&gt;
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  &lt;p&gt;Yahoo! needs to realize that the web platform is getting more and more important.  Google already has, and is building a platform around their start page, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/ig/&quot;&gt;iGoogle&lt;/a&gt;, by encouraging developers to build &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/intl/en/apis/gadgets/index.html&quot;&gt;gadgets&lt;/a&gt;&quot; specifically for it. For Yahoo!, a platform can unify their services -- which right now are scattered -- and add utility to their page that will keep users there long enough to conduct searches.  Yahoo! controls some of the hottest and most useful properties on the web, but has not figured out how to tie them together.  They&#039;ve started to bring some of their acquisitions under the single Yahoo! sign-on umbrella, but that still doesn&#039;t bring my del.icio.us links, my Flickr photos and my fantasy sports team management to one central location.&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;The good news for Yahoo! is that they already have a property just waiting to be turned into a full fledged platform: &lt;a href=&quot;http://my.yahoo.com/&quot;&gt;My Yahoo!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Josh goes on to recommend 3 immediate courses of action for Yahoo:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. An Open API&lt;/strong&gt; - why have a team of people adding only &amp;quot;official&amp;quot; modules to My Yahoo, when Yahoo could have thousands of developers doing the work for them for free?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. Richer Applications&lt;/strong&gt; - For My Yahoo! to be taken seriously as a platform and compete with Facebook and iGoogle, they&#039;ll need to support richer applications. That means applications that can be interacted with on the page.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. Make the Platform Social&lt;/strong&gt; - My Yahoo! already has 50 million users (by December 2006 numbers) -- certainly a lot more than Facebook. So it makes sense to build in a social network, rather than purchase one from the outside an go through the headache of figuring out how to get it integrated.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h2&gt;Yahoo Better Positioned Than Google&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;As Josh noted, &amp;quot;Yahoo! is actually in a better position to create a winning platform than Google is right now. Their start page is already established and has an enormous user base, they have a rich developer culture built around their other APIs and they can seed their platform with some of the best content on the web.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Josh&#039;s post is an excellent kick in the pants for Yahoo. I&#039;ve just presented the Cliff&#039;s Notes version here, but &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/fixing_yahoo_building_a_yahoo_platform.php&quot;&gt;read the whole post&lt;/a&gt;. Also check the comments, there are some insightful ones.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;So will Jerry Yang take Josh&#039;s advice and make My Yahoo an open platform? The answer to that may effect the way you vote in this week&#039;s poll ;-)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;   &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.polldaddy.com&quot;&gt;polls&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.polldaddy.com/poll.asp?p=79050&quot;&gt;Take Our Poll&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/rwwfiles_yahoo.png&quot; width=&quot;180px&quot;/&gt;Most Web users probably use at least one Yahoo product on a regular basis. So as part of our &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/100_days_for_yahoo_intro.php&quot;&gt;100 Days For Yahoo week&lt;/a&gt;, let&#039;s take a look at 10 that are among the leaders in their particular market segment, or  are particularly innovative. These are subjective selections, because it&#039;s almost impossible to use objective criteria to judge such different web properties. So we encourage you to comment on what you think should be in the list, or what shouldn&#039;t. Also note that the following list is in no particular order.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.yahoo.com/&quot;&gt;Yahoo News&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is the number 1 Internet news site, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=971&quot;&gt;according to comScore&lt;/a&gt;. It is a blend of automated and editorial, and also offers a number of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_news_rede.php&quot;&gt;personalization options&lt;/a&gt;. As Josh Catone explained in &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/news_aggregation_methods.php&quot;&gt;a recent R/WW post about news aggregation&lt;/a&gt;, Yahoo! takes news from the wires -- the Associated Press, Reuters, AFP, and PA SportsTicker, among others -- and aggregates them into a single stream. Editors keep duplicates to a minimum and decide which stories are the most important to be listed as top headlines. This mix of technology and editors creates a high quality news stream, albeit lacking the immediacy of blogs.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/yahoo_top10/yahoo_news_july07.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2. &lt;a href=&quot;http://answers.yahoo.com/&quot;&gt;Answers&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;  allows users to search for things that don&#039;t yet have an answer. This is a key strategic product for Yahoo, because using &#039;people power&#039; is one way Yahoo can take on Google in search. Social search is the catchphrase and it was something I &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/interview_with_3.php&quot;&gt;discussed withYahoo&#039;s Bradley Horowitz and Caterina Fake&lt;/a&gt; a year ago at the Supernova conference. They told me how Yahoo Search is evolving into a more social construct.  At that stage there were approximately 10 Million Y! Answers in the database, although I&#039;m sure it&#039;s much more than that now. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And if you think Answers will never enable Yahoo Search to compete with Google, check out our recent story about how &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/can_google_be_beat_naver_south_korea.php&quot;&gt;South Korean search company Naver.com&lt;/a&gt; is crushing Google in the South Korea market, largely due to Naver&#039;s &amp;quot;Knowledge iN&amp;quot; real-time question-and-answer platform - which gets an average of 44,000 questions a day. Long way to go before Yahoo gets that kind of uptake with Answers, but still it remains a key product for Yahoo.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;See also R/WW&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/question_and_answer_sites.php&quot;&gt;round-up of Q&amp;amp;A sites&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/yahoo_answers_july07.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/flickr_jan07.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;strong&gt;3. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com&quot;&gt;Flickr&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; has been the web 2.0 poster child of photo sharing sites ever since it was released. When it was acquired in March 2005 by Yahoo, it continued to make incremental upgrades. Indeed &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/webby_awards_2007.php&quot;&gt;at the 2007 Webby Awards&lt;/a&gt; (the Web&#039;s Oscars), Flickr picked up 3 awards (5 including two Peoples Choice ones), for Best Practices, Best Visual Design - Function, and Community. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Despite Flickr&#039;s impressive design and innovation, it has been somewhat overshadowed by Photobucket in terms of user numbers and traffic - thanks mainly to Photobucket piggy-backing off MySpace&#039;s success. However, as the below graph from Compete shows, Flickr has started to make big gains - and it&#039;s now almost caught up to Photobucket.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/yahoo_top10/flickr_july07.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/yahoo_pipes_logo.jpg&quot; width=&quot;131&quot; height=&quot;58&quot;/&gt;4. &lt;a href=&quot;http://pipes.yahoo.com/&quot;&gt;Pipes&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pipes.yahoo.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - Yahoo &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_pipes_rss_remixer.php&quot;&gt;released an RSS Remixing service&lt;/a&gt; called Pipes in February 2007. At launch it was described as &amp;quot;an interactive feed aggregator and manipulator&amp;quot;. Basically it&#039;s a hosted service that enables you to create remix feeds and create new data mashups in a visual programming environment.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;R/WW Author Alex Iskold &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_pipes_web_database.php&quot;&gt;was very impressed with Pipes&lt;/a&gt;, saying that it&#039;s the first GUI builder for the biggest database in the world - the Web iself. Alex said that when compared to Visual Basic and Power Builder, Yahoo! Pipes comes out as more inventive and no less rigorous that its predecessors. It empowers developers to remix the building blocks of the web in a whole new way. And it does it with remarkable simplicity.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://static.flickr.com/95/242870784_91f198a758_m.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;yahoo mail&quot; width=&quot;203&quot; height=&quot;37&quot;/&gt;&lt;strong&gt;5. &lt;a href=&quot;http://new.mail.yahoo.com/&quot;&gt;Yahoo Mail&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://new.mail.yahoo.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; - in most stats Yahoo Mail is the number 1 web mail product. However when the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_mail_beta_interview_ethan_diamond.php&quot;&gt;new Ajax version of Yahoo! Mail was released&lt;/a&gt; as a beta in September last year, it was certainly late to market. Gmail had been wowing geeks &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/rethinking_emai.php&quot;&gt;since April 2004&lt;/a&gt;, so it was a long wait until Yahoo! Mail caught the Ajax bug too. Which was odd, because it was based on an Ajax pioneer which Yahoo acquired in July 2004 - called Oddpost. But as Yahoo&#039;s Ethan Diamond explained to me back in September, when you roll out Ajax to 250M or so mainstream users, you need to make sure everything scales.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;Yahoo Mail has the functionality of a desktop email client (such as Outlook). Other features include an integrated calendar timeline (including mashups with Yahoo Maps), drag and drop e-mail organization, message preview, tabs for messages, plus an integrated RSS reader. Also &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_mail_api.php&quot;&gt;an API was released&lt;/a&gt; in March 2007. While it&#039;s not my favorite web mail service (see R/WW&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/web_email_market.php&quot;&gt;Web Email Market Overview&lt;/a&gt; to find out what is!), Yahoo&#039;s option is great for those who like the desktop email paradigm.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://static.flickr.com/63/200197310_572f64b13f_t.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;yahoo messenger&quot; width=&quot;99&quot; height=&quot;100&quot;/&gt;6. &lt;a href=&quot;http://messenger.yahoo.com/&quot;&gt;Messenger&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://messenger.yahoo.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; (with Avatars). Yahoo&#039;s Instant Messenging product is one of the market leaders, but more importantly it is a lot of fun to use thanks to its avatars. It also has voice and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/y_messenger_lau.php&quot;&gt;many plug-ins&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Many people use multiple IM clients (and use meta IM services like Meebo and Trillian to manage that). And &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/2006_instant_messenger_innovations.php&quot;&gt;IM innovation has been strong&lt;/a&gt; in the past few years - common features these days include interoperability, flexible identities, rich media chat, in-browser chat, location-based chat, and contextual chat. So whatever IM client you use, there is a lot you can do with them on the Web.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/yahoo_top10/yahoo_music.png&quot;/&gt;&lt;strong&gt;7. &lt;a href=&quot;http://music.yahoo.com/&quot;&gt;Yahoo  Music&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; is a colorful and feature-rich online music service. Just today they released playlists, a new samples player, and web subscription playback. Yahoo acquired Webjay, an innovative playlisting startup, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_acquires.php&quot;&gt;back in January 2006&lt;/a&gt;. So it&#039;s great to see playlisting make an appearance now in Yahoo Music. The new playlist functionality was &lt;a href=&quot;http://ymusicblog.com/blog/2007/07/31/playlists-new-samples-player-web-subscription-playback/&quot;&gt;described by Lucas Gonze&lt;/a&gt; (founder of Webjay) as &amp;quot;a full-featured module which includes the ability to play tracks and to comment on playlists. You can browse playlists by creator and you can browse playlists which a person has commented on, so there is a content-focused social network.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/yahoo_top10/delicious.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot;/&gt;8. &lt;a href=&quot;http://del.icio.us/&quot;&gt;del.icio.us&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - As Alex Iskold wrote in the R/WW &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/social_bookmarking_faceoff.php&quot;&gt;Social Bookmarking Faceoff&lt;/a&gt; in September, it could be argued that the current social web era started with del.icio.us and the advent of social bookmarking. The simple concept of a tag has turned our interactions with the web upside down. The idea of being able to store your bookmarks online, share them with everyone and see what others have bookmarked - triggered the sequence of events that resulted in today&#039;s rich and social web ecosystem.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Yahoo &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_buys_deli.php&quot;&gt;acquired del.icio.us&lt;/a&gt; in December 2005 and, like Flickr, it has iterated in small steps since then. There was initially talk that del.icio.us would integrate with Yahoo&#039;s other bookmarking service, &lt;a href=&quot;http://myweb.yahoo.com/&quot;&gt;My Web 2.0&lt;/a&gt;. But that never happened. In the end, del.icio.us has stayed pretty much independent - which is exactly how its many fans like it.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img border=&quot;0&quot; src=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/yahoo_onesearch_mar07b.jpg&quot; width=&quot;180&quot; height=&quot;140&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;9. &lt;a href=&quot;http://mobile.yahoo.com&quot;&gt;Yahoo Mobile&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - Yahoo OneSearch &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_mobile_ces07.php&quot;&gt;launched in January&lt;/a&gt; this year and then became &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_onesearch_mobile_web.php&quot;&gt;the default mobile Yahoo homepage in March&lt;/a&gt;. This made it a purely search-centric homepage for mobile phones, whereas the old site had both search and a kind of mini-portal. There is a lot of added functionality in oneSearch; it tries to provide context when searching for something on your mobile phone, recognizing that on a phone you need different types of info than on a PC.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;According to the December 2006 stats from M:Metrics, Yahoo! Search is currently the #2 search service on mobile phones for the US market - behind Google. It is obviously a growth market and Yahoo is bringing a lot of web functionality to its mobile property.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;10. &lt;a href=&quot;http://my.yahoo.com&quot;&gt;My Yahoo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; - last, but certainly not least, is My Yahoo. In many ways a precursor to the current crop of &#039;personalized start pages&#039;, My Yahoo is now taking on many of their attributes. As we noted in our March 2007 coverage of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/my_yahoo_web20_makeover.php&quot;&gt;My Yahoo!&#039;s Web 2.0 Makeover&lt;/a&gt;, My Yahoo! has been the company&#039;s personalized offering to its consumers since 1996. It is seen as the company&#039;s &amp;quot;narrowcast&amp;quot; option for users, while the yahoo.com frontpage is seen as the broadcast model. However over time, the two homepages will converge. Indeed the  beta My Yahoo has some of the new features Yahoo introduced last year with its &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/exclusive_new_y.php&quot;&gt;Ajax makeover of yahoo.com&lt;/a&gt;. And the look and feel is very similar between the two.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Up until the re-design in March, My Yahoo was a relatively static personalized homepage - mostly devoid of the widgets and gadgets that populate the likes of Netvibes and Live.com. However that is beginning to change, albeit very slowly compared to its startup competition.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h2&gt;Bonus&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://shopping.yahoo.com/&quot;&gt;Yahoo Shopping&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; just missed the Top 10, but nevertheless is has a lot of potential. Yahoo has just started to scratch the surface, with experiments like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_ramping_up_content_networks.php&quot;&gt;Brand Universe&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/yahoo_shoposphe.php&quot;&gt;Yahoo Shoposphere&lt;/a&gt;. The latter has a concept called &#039;me-commerce&#039; and uses &amp;quot;Pick Lists&amp;quot; to let users share their stuff on the Shoposphere and Yahoo! Shopping - using email and RSS feeds. Yahoo Shopping also has an API, which is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/shoppingpath_product_comparison.php&quot;&gt;being used&lt;/a&gt; by companies like ShoppingPath.com, a shopping comparison service. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But there&#039;s so much more Yahoo can do with Y! Shopping - they could look to RSS and widget shopping startups to see what is happening in this domain [disclosure: I am an advisor at one such startup].&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;h2&gt;Conclusion&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There were some obvious Yahoo properties that we haven&#039;t listed - for instance there was no room for &lt;a href=&quot;http://upcoming.yahoo.com/&quot;&gt;Upcoming&lt;/a&gt;, Y! Games, Y! Finance or Y! Personals. All of those (and many more) are great services. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What do you think of this list - does it capture the best Yahoo products? What other Yahoo properties do you use, or what do you think needs improvement before you&#039;d consider using it?&lt;/p&gt;
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            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/rwwfiles_yahoo.png&quot;/&gt;Following the success of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_week_july2007.php&quot;&gt;Facebook Week&lt;/a&gt;, every week on Read/WriteWeb we are going to focus on a particular Web Technology topic and investigate it. We&#039;ll write 4-5 feature posts on each topic, run a poll, and also revisit past R/WW posts on the subject. We&#039;re calling this new feature the &lt;strong&gt;Read/WriteWeb Files&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This week we&#039;ve opened up a file on a recent statement from Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang. It was during &lt;a href=&quot;http://internet.seekingalpha.com/article/41352&quot;&gt;Yang&#039;s debut earnings conference call&lt;/a&gt; on Tuesday 17 July, in which he said that &amp;quot;the next 100 days or so&amp;quot; will be spent mapping out Yahoo’s strategic plan. Here is Yang&#039;s full &#039;100 days&#039; statement:&lt;/p&gt;
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  &lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Looking ahead, we want to dramatically improve our performance and capture the major growth opportunities we see ahead for the Internet. I intend to spend the next 100 days or so focused on mapping out a strategic plan for the long-term success, working with our teams to put the right organization and the right people in place, and making any necessary changes.&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;p&gt;We are well on our way with a top to bottom review of our business in order to effectively address the company&#039;s challenges and capitalize on our many great opportunities.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;While there is a fair amount of generic executive talk in there (&amp;quot;working with our teams to put the right organization and the right people in place&amp;quot;), the &#039;100 days&#039; bit  tells us that Yahoo is serious about getting its house in order. Also Yang&#039;s comment about &amp;quot;making any necessary changes&amp;quot;. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Yahoo Needs to Change&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The fact of the matter is: Yahoo needs to change, because otherwise it risks being left behind. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/comscore_yahoofiles.png&quot;/&gt;Yahoo is no longer the number 1 property on the Web, at least according to this month&#039;s comScore &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1524&quot;&gt;Top 10 Worldwide Online Properties&lt;/a&gt; report. That puts Yahoo at number 3, behind Google (#1) and Microsoft (#2). Yahoo is still ahead of its new media competitors - Time Warner is #4 and Fox Interactive #7. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In important areas, Yahoo is struggling. Its search initiative Panama isn&#039;t making inroads into Google&#039;s AdWords and Adsense. In social networking, Fox&#039;s MySpace and now Facebook are leaving Yahoo in their dust. And in key products Yahoo is being left behind by Google especially, and in danger of being overtaken by new media companies. For example in online video, Yahoo is &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.comscore.com/press/release.asp?press=1460&quot;&gt;a distant second&lt;/a&gt; behind Google - and only just ahead of Fox.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Of course it&#039;s not all gloomy for Yahoo. Further into the July earnings call, Yang refers to Yahoo being &amp;quot;a deep and active marketplace&amp;quot;, noting that &amp;quot;it&#039;s an ecosystem that involves several hundred million participants every single day; consumers, advertisers, publishers and developers.&amp;quot; And they could well argue they are still the number 1 portal on the Web, due to its largely consolidated properties - whereas Google and Microsoft are all over the shop with their different properties (e.g. YouTube is a Google property, but is largely self-sufficient and not integrated into Google&#039;s portal offerings).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;h2&gt;Cut! No, Action!&lt;/h2&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Looking at the big picture, it&#039;s fair to say that Yahoo&#039;s attempt to become a &#039;big media&#039; company over the past few years - in the mold of a CBS or Hollywood studio - has largely failed. That saw previous CEO Terry Semel exiting stage left this year, and now it&#039;s 100 days and counting under JerryYang&#039;s directorship. It&#039;s kind of like the star director being sacked from  a blockbuster movie, and now there&#039;s only 100 days left to wrap filming on what everyone expects to be next summer&#039;s biggest release. Except it was actually due out a couple of summers ago and now the script needs a major re-write! A lot of pressure for the new director.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.readwriteweb.com/images/tom_jerry.jpg&quot;/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
  &lt;i&gt;&amp;quot;Um Tom, unfortunately I&#039;m going to have to fire your ass...&quot; (pic by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/maidelba/116075975/&quot;&gt;Maximum Mitch&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In any case by the middle of October, we should expect to see significant changes in Yahoo&#039;s product portfolio and probably a new overall strategy (or at least a better defined one). &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;What can Yahoo do to get back in the game? In Jerry Yang&#039;s 100 days, what will be on his hit list and what Yahoo properties can he promote or enhance more? Stay tuned to Read/WriteWeb this week to find out. In the meantime, please participate in our special poll:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;   &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.polldaddy.com&quot;&gt;polls&lt;/a&gt; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.polldaddy.com/poll.asp?p=79050&quot;&gt;Take Our Poll&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
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         Grab your calendar and circle Jan 11th!  The Cometd project is having our first-ever developer get together at the Six Apart offices in San Francisco. We&amp;#39;ll even have some of our dojo friends there too!  Location: 548 4th St San Francisco, CA 9410...   &lt;p style=&quot;clear:both;&quot;&gt; 
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       &lt;p&gt;Grab your calendar and circle Jan 11th!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Cometd project is having our first-ever developer get together at the Six Apart offices in San Francisco.&lt;br/&gt;We&amp;#39;ll even have some of our dojo friends there too!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Location:&lt;br/&gt;548 4th St&lt;br/&gt;San Francisco, CA 94107&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;q=six+apart&amp;amp;sll=37.781334,-122.416728&amp;amp;sspn=0.091715,0.11467&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;om=1&amp;amp;z=13&amp;amp;ll=37.795949,-122.38203&amp;amp;spn=0.091697,0.170975&amp;amp;iwloc=A&quot;&gt;Map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Time: 3pm ( tentative )&lt;br/&gt;Demo at 4pm&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some of us will be having drinks later at the &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;q=Hotel+Utah&amp;amp;sll=37.778856,-122.397177&amp;amp;sspn=0.001276,0.001639&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;z=19&amp;amp;ll=37.780039,-122.397864&amp;amp;spn=0.001276,0.001639&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;om=1&amp;amp;iwloc=A&amp;amp;iwd=1&amp;amp;cid=37779500,-122397985,5250212365099531858&amp;amp;dtab=0&quot;&gt;Hotel Utah Saloon&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  
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