Archive for the 'patent' Category

16
Feb

Don’t Copy Us. We’ll Copy You.

While we’re on Yahoo!, I thought that the current storm over Yahoo Suggestions was quite humerous. Here I am posting about Yahoo! patents one minute and then posting about Yahoo copying Digg the next.

Frankly, I don’t see what all the fuss is about. The screenshots below show the similarities between Yahoo Suggestions and Digg, with voting for stories to the left of the short blurb. All looks very similar.

Yahoo:
Yahoo Suggestions
Digg:
Digg
No doubt, Digg created a great system and UI for user generated and rated content. It is a given then, that others will “copy” it. There is absolutely nothing wrong with “reapply with pride”. Yahoo! even went so far as to credit Digg on it’s blog so I can’t see what all of the fuss is about.

I’m with Yahoo! on this one, can’t see what all of the fuss is about.

By Rob Scherer 1 Comment
Categories: Yahoo!, digg, innovation, patent and web 2.0
15
Feb

Yahoo + Patent != Good News for Mashups

The Eolas patent was bad news for the internet. It meant that millions of websites became less usable overnight. Depending on which side you are on, you would argue for or against Microsoft pushing the “security patch” that resulted in embedded objects requiring 2 clicks to be activated where they previously required 1. I believe they should have just coughed up the $40 million or so in order to ensure that users of IE had no degradation of their browsing experience.

So, reading today on CrunchGear about how Yahoo! have lodged a patent claim for a bunch of concepts concerned with the “creation of dynamic pages” I fear that the big news of 2007 may be Yahoo! enforcing their patents at the expense of innovation and user experience. I hope I am wrong!

By Rob Scherer 0 Comments
Categories: Yahoo!, evolution, innovation, patent and web 2.0
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