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[News] Netvibes Takes Open-source Route, Yahoo Pretends (Like Google)

Netvibes to open-source its widget platform

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| "We want to compete with Google widgets," Krim said. "Our container supports 
| Google widgets and every other platform. If we release our code, people will 
| leverage it and grow the reach of our platform."  
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http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9928609-80.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Yahoo Tries to Become the Cool Kid -- By Being More Open

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| Yahoo! used to be the coolest Internet company around. Started by two 
| Stanford PhD dropouts, Yahoo began by organizing a list of Web sites, then by 
| incorporating a sophisticated search engine, and then by creating a large 
| number of Web applications and portals.   
| 
| And then, almost overnight, something happened to Yahoo. Two other Stanford 
| PhD dropouts started another search company, Google, which became the 
| Internet's new darling -- not just as a respected brand, or as a place for 
| the tech elite to work, but also as a business bringing in amazing revenues 
| and profits. Yahoo's fortunes began to sag, with various executives trying to 
| lead the company into a number of directions, and with thousands of layoffs 
| in early 2008.      
| 
| The biggest and most surprising blow of all came in February 2008, when 
| Microsoft offered to buy Yahoo for what was then $44 billion in cash and 
| stock.  
| 
| [...]
| 
| Whatever the reasons, this strategy promises to bring many new open-source 
| developers into the Yahoo fold, creating new applications and services based 
| on Yahoo's technologies.  
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http://ostatic.com/160227-blog/yahoo-tries-to-become-the-cool-kid-by-being-more-open


Recent:

Former Yahoo SVP Starts As OpenX CEO

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| Tim Cadogan left Yahoo, where he was the senior vice president of Global 
| Advertising Marketplaces, a little more than a month ago.  Today, Cadogan 
| announced that he's joined OpenX, an open source ad delivery company, as its 
| CEO.   
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/04/09/former-yahoo-svp-starts-as-openx-ceo


Related:

Yahoo! Answers is rejecting Open-Source options in answers

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| Someone got a computer from a friend that has some serious problems 
| with Windows. S/he has none of the disks (XP or restore) and was
| asking for recommendations.
| 
| [...]
| 
| How is recommending freely available and legal alternatives abuse?
| ImgBurn is also a perfectly legal program, so are Ubuntu and Kubuntu
| (they're Linux).
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http://amandakerik.wordpress.com/2007/04/23/yahoo-answers-is-rejecting-open-source-options-in-answers/
http://tinyurl.com/ywglv7


Yahoo Betrays Free Speech

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| For a company that ostensibly believes in the Internet’s liberating power, 
| Yahoo has a gallingly backward understanding of the value of free expression. 
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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/opinion/02sun2.html?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

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