Welcome to the July 2009 Newsletter. not for the creators How IBM and Yahoo made Microsoft and Google (respectively) People Facebook privacy: a guide - new lessons to learn The productivity challenge - step away or toward Twitter? Enjoy. Systems How big is too big? This revolution will not be monetised -.or What do you look like? MORE >>

Way back in January, I predicted (see #8) that Microsoft's Bing would overtake Yahoo in share to become #2 in search. These figures do not consider the Yahoo/Bing's search deal. Yahoo! In terms of a year-over-year comparison, Google has seen little change in its share of search while Yahoo! with a 13.9% searches. MORE >>

But Alta Vista was instead turned into a bawdy image of Yahoo, AOL, Lycos, Excite, and all the other portals of the late 90s. And Yahoo, eager to appropriate all things Best on the Web, was more than happy to give Google what Netscape had given Yahoo in the mid 90s: a font row seat to Becoming the Next Big Thing. Why not? Yet.). MORE >>

Reputation labels on the intranet at Yahoo! Report Abuse is available on every comment in Yahoo! Nowadays everyone wants social in their sites and applications. It’s become a basic requirement in consumer web software and is slowly infiltrating the enterprise as well. Step 1 – What’s your social object? or SixDegrees?), MORE >>

CDNet reported that Yahoo is pondering the meaning of search. in exchange for a healthy portion of the revenue generated by searches on Yahoo's pages. Yahoo has big stakes here as it earned 359 million from search ads on its owned and operated sites during the second quarter of the year.   MORE >>