hyperlexic - 7:29 pm on Jan 11, 2010 (gmt 0)

I don't think it's fair to say Yahoo hasn't been innovative. Yahoo has some of the coolest services out there. YQL is really amazing. Google has nothing like that in their API set. Really, with YQL now EVERY site has a real-time data API even if they don't know it.

Pipes is pretty cool. Clunky interface, but still better than most rss feeds dressed up as 'web services' out there today. Delicious is indispensable for me. Flickr really pushed the bar in terms of microformats and provided an innovative social network with actual value. Yahoo has some of the smartest people working for them like Doug Crockford. It's too bad much of this stuff is probably on the chopping block as they focus strictly on content.