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For a long while now, Google has not released a new version of the GTalk client for Windows. This seems to be a well thought out strategy of moving everyone to their web based GTalk client - TalkGadget. All new features - invisibility, group chat, AIM interconnect have been introduced only in the web based client. Why is it so? I think this is because they are unable to monetize from the standalone client whereas they can show targeted ads in the web based gadget or through the client built in Gmail. Their plan eventually might be to migrate all users to the web based version. But the web based version is missing two critical features - Voice Chat and File transfer. Unless these two are ported I doubt the full scale migration will be complete
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Applying the principle of Wikipedia to search? This is what Wikia is trying to do. The first version was unsuccessful but a newer upgrade promises a bigger search index and better tools to edit search results. Does this have the potential for abuse? You bet! But so does Wikipedia but the community ends up moderating results in most of the cases.
Should a CEO hold out against shareholders and go ahead with his beliefs or should be step aside and let the “Collective cloud” decide? This is the the exact question which Jerry Yang is facing in his fight for the future of Yahoo! He believes he has the right set of technology to successfully guide Yahoos! future. Whereas the shareholders see a negative return in the future and have lost their faith in Yahoo.
I believe Yang is being emotional about his company since he founded it. It has been proved that Yahoo apart from it’s web traffic has been an also ran in monetizing its traffic compared to Google. Maybe MS and Yahoo should join hands to tackle Google. An enemy of an enemy is my friend coming into play here? Maybe!
I have been watching Like.com/Riya since it’s beta birth and it does seem to be a very promising technology. They started monetizing the face recognition technology with Riya.com and now they have come up with Facebook ads. Basically they recognize the product that your friend is wearing/showing it will show a similar product ad. Cool tech!
