martinibuster - 3:50 am on Aug 18, 2005 (gmt 0)

I read that article, too and like you I also felt they came down a little hard.

It seemed their concern was that Yahoo was spreading themselves across too many different areas, and compared them to AOL five years ago, and questioned why a company would want to resurrect that business model of being everything to everybody.

I think they're missing the larger picture in that we have broadband today, and today's user is savvier than those using AOL way back when. Additionally, we have a whole generation that grew up with the web and are digitally connected in ways we only speculated about five years ago. Online advertising has been resurrected because the time is right. I think the time is also right to bridge services together.