Yahoo! Two-Step: New Partners in Social Guru, Security Firm
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Written By Reprise Media | July 25, 2006 | Share This
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Nothing fancy, here, just a good ‘ol fashioned Yahoo! quick hit post. Let’s start with step one:
“Face your new partner!” Yahoo!’s spent the better part of the last couple years picking up various and sundry Web 2.0 companies that emphasize social functionality. Now, they’ve found a man who can make sense of it all.
Reuters UK says that the engine’s hired Dr. Raghu Ramakrishnan, a database expert, former computer science professor and co-founder of Quiq, a community site launched in 1999 that once worked with Ask.com on their question-answering service. He’ll be in charge of developing Yahoo!’s social strategy. Says the Dr.:
“At Yahoo you have this unique opportunity to integrate conventional search with Flickr, Del.icio.us, Yahoo Answers, Yahoo Groups and Yahoo Mail…How do you take all this search activity and learn from it?…How do you make all of this as natural as possible to users?”
We’re not sure ourselves, but we think the good doctor’s history in the answering business will have him on the right track in Sunnyvale (via SE Roundtable).
Security, yeah yeah! On another tip from Barry Schwartz, we’ve got a BetaNews story that says Y! has a deal with Symantec to push the latter’s ‘net security products.
Symantec applications would be embedded in the likes of Yahoo! Mail and other popular Yahoo! services, and Yahoo! will also market a “co-branded version of Norton Internet Security” throughout its sites. It would be free to use for 30-days before inviting users to sign up for a year-long subscription at the low-low price of $49.99.
Topics: People on the Move, Yahoo! |