So Yahoo is finally getting seriously into the social software space - Yahoo! 360�. PK says that the service will start by the end of the month with hand-picked beta users. Boy, it's going to be crowded out there.
In other news Battelle describes a bit the newly Open Search A9 or the syndicated search. I will look into more details later on today. As a brief comment, things move fast, it's been less than a year since we were wondering what was A9's goal and how would it compete with similar search engines. Turns out that I was wrong with Google "exploring the lower markets" theory though. :)
Ok not really a flop but usually things companies are rushing to won't cause any hype. Companies do not set trends. Google understood that, others not. This along with UMTS might be the next flop or at least something that won't be what is expected from. I think this is very visible only seeing the dispair the way they are trying to convince the public this is the year of UMTS. Ok your article it's not about UMTS but this social friendster network stuff is overblown the same way.