Yahoo pulls the plug on Y!Live

November 4, 2008 by tom bianco  
Filed under Content, Search

Yahoo software engineer Keith Thornill is hosted a town hall on Wednesday to announce the demise of the service. Live streaming was all the rage for about 10 seconds, Justinn.tv Qik, and flixwagon popularized the once in platform of streaming. Due to its expense and scalability it is a hard medium to sustain at this time, the bandwidth issues is far greater than asynchronous video services like you tube and yahoo video.

Google pages is dead

August 6, 2008 by tom bianco  
Filed under Search

Google pages lives on well as Google Sites from what it looks like it is just Google pages 2.0 but after looking deep into the issue I can see it comming — Google Store with google checkout, Watch out Yahoo Store you are about to lose you diffrenenciator