How is Yahoo building the Open Mesh?
I’m finalizing my book “How to build the Open Mesh” and Mary Hodder suggested that I add some Appendices on how various BigCos are building THEIR versions of the open mesh.
So here is Appendix - B.
Yahoo probably has the most comprehensive, well architected approach towards building their own open mesh. They’ve left lots of room for us without getting in our way. Now they just have to execute those plans!
Enabling OpenSocial gadgets (or any other kind of widget) inside of any Yahoo property and providing a rich set of APIs into an underlying ID layer is pretty dam coolio. Any ID system, social networking platform or web app should be able to seamlesslly mesh into the 150M Yahoo strong. What Flickr did for photos, so will Y! OS do for the open mesh.
As a modern day media entity Yahoo can show the world how content + technology + open can mean monetization for all. What I especially like is their leadership in supporting structured content and making sure that its all standards based.
Yahoo is poised to come back in a big way if they can execute this architecture correctly.
Tags: open mesh, underlying ID, Yahoo
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