Comments on: Yahoo Beefs Up Their Social Networking Empire http://thomashawk.com/2006/11/yahoo-beefs-up-their-social-networking.html Sat, 26 May 2012 02:31:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Thomas Hawk http://thomashawk.com/2006/11/yahoo-beefs-up-their-social-networking.html/comment-page-1#comment-11341 Thomas Hawk Fri, 17 Nov 2006 18:42:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=1629#comment-11341 Anonymous 20 million monthly uniques on Flickr is not something to sneeze at. Certainly they don't have anything the size of YouTube, MySpace or Facebook yet but the more of these small little social networks that they buy the more interesting things they may be able to do which together can drive traffic over time.<br /><br />The challenge for Yahoo remains how best to integrate their various social media properties with each other and an even more daunting task how to integrate them with search. Flickr has already begun limited integration with delicious and upcoming and I'd suspect that you see much more of this in the future. Anonymous 20 million monthly uniques on Flickr is not something to sneeze at. Certainly they don’t have anything the size of YouTube, MySpace or Facebook yet but the more of these small little social networks that they buy the more interesting things they may be able to do which together can drive traffic over time.

The challenge for Yahoo remains how best to integrate their various social media properties with each other and an even more daunting task how to integrate them with search. Flickr has already begun limited integration with delicious and upcoming and I’d suspect that you see much more of this in the future.

]]> By: Anonymous http://thomashawk.com/2006/11/yahoo-beefs-up-their-social-networking.html/comment-page-1#comment-11342 Anonymous Fri, 17 Nov 2006 17:52:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/thomashawk/?p=1629#comment-11342 Well, I'm not so sure it can be considered an "empire" when they aren't even on the map in terms of usage. Well, I’m not so sure it can be considered an “empire” when they aren’t even on the map in terms of usage.

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