I’s simple.  Give us full APIs - both sucking and spitting - of MyYahoo info. It’s not your info, it’s ours. The end-users - who have made you so successful over all these years - own our data - so just free it up, let us do what we want with it and you might as well build a Facebook app to import it - while you’re at it!

 Just do the right thing (as Spike Lee says) and it’ll all be fine.

Why has Yahoo been buying all these companies?  When does the monetization kick in - and find the bottom line?  Where’s Jerry 100 day report?

Everybody seems to have something to say about Yahoo nowadays.

Jeff Jarvis replays the incident with Arriana Huffington and access to mashed up videos.  Oh yah - they bought JumpCut.

And John Battelle corrects Businessweek in its swallowing - hook, line and sinker - that tying MyYahoo to GMail is somehow open.  Lordy lordy - if that’s what Yahoo thinks is open - they’re in worse shape than I thought.

Where’s Jeremy Zawodny in all this mess?  Brad Horowitz?  Those guys know what open is.

Jeremy does a pretty good critique of the BusinessWeek article himself - but Jeremy - where’s the APIs for MyYahoo?  I could have sworn they were promised to us - like last year. That’s 2006.  And it’s almost 2008 now?  Wassup dude?

All this open talk reminds me of two of my favorite conferences coming up - Web 2.0 and Le Web3.  I hope to hold panels on this very subject and get the major players who need to open up - on the stage and ask them publicly”when will you allow your end-user’s data to be moved freely - wherever they want it to go?”

Dare Obasanjo told us at the DataSharingSummit that Microsoft is now allowing that via the Widnows Live Cntacts APIs.  Facebook let’s “some” stuff out - but not all - so where is Google, Yahoo and MySpace in all this?

And remember - its’ just as important to spit (bring it back in) than to suck it out (export it.)

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