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Mike Rowe is the only person that my wife could leave me for, and I still might not end up hating him for it. - midnightgolfer

Please do yourself a favor and watch this video. - James Tallman

Yahoo is still around? I kid... - andy brudtkuhl

Ya Who? - Mike Lewis from twhirl

Yahoo PR sucks, they send out NDA's to the wrong crowd - paul mooney

Speaking of SXSW ... will you be there Robert? I assume such - andy brudtkuhl

I found it at last http://ysearchblog.com/ - paul mooney

Nice post, I think you nailed that one. - Laura Norvig

Great post, Robert! - Bob Starr

I think it might have been bigger news had Windows Live Search come out with this. - David Wilson

So, they are announcing something similar to Google Notebook, except it will automatically save some searches into said notebook sometimes. Great use of resources. Yahoo needs to really *push* something. This evolutionary (for them) stuff is not going to cut it. Look at Latitude. Tech world is going nuts over it.That should have been Yahoo. Anyone ever use Fire Eagle? Unfortunately, they can't really blame anyone but themselves. - Lee Adkins

1. poor Yahoo. 2. Scoble, It's good to have you back from Davos. - Dana Dowell

1. poor Yahoo. 2. Scoble, it's good to have you back from Davos. - Dana Dowell

@Lee, the problem for Yahoo is the early adopter crowd are already loyal Google users. Yahoo's core products are simply too far behind to compete for that audience. They should stick to providing their mainstream audience with simpler services. - Steven Cains

@cains you may be right, they compete with aol, not google - Jean-Charles VERDIE

the search pad itself seems pretty cool. check out this intro video: http://tools.search.yahoo.com/SearchP... - Puneet Thapliyal

Robert, doesn't your post make a case for appealing to Alpha Geeks? And if it does, how does this point jive with your opinion that too many companies are building for geeks and forgetting about the everyday user? - Andrew Warner

Andrew: if you want to be successful you've got to build for both. Build something just for the geeks and your market will be small. Build just for the mass audience and it'll be lame and won't get talked up. - Robert Scoble

Andrew, appealing to early adopters is not optional. Late adopters don't have time to evaluate all the options; they ask their early adopter friends what's good. - Bruce Lewis

Robert is right on as usual. I am cheering for Yahoo (partly because of my investment) but was disappointed to not be able to check out Yahoo's release except for a video. That being said, being a Mac user, that was all I could do w/Latitude as well. - Craig Mische

how bout simply because it's just Google Notebook added to search as the primary reason? I watched the video, and I wasn't a least bit impressed. - Duncan Riley

Yahoo is and will go the way of the dinosaur - Bob Sonin

I agree with Duncan it isn't exactly innovating. - Nicholas James

Thank you for this! I am virtualizing a DC right now and we need CHEAPER and open solutions! :) - Susan Beebe

VMWare is another example of a victim of technology sedimentation: if a technology should be packaged with the OS layer, it will end up there. - Christophe Pierret

how it this a such a good thing? they are only releasing the client as open source. The client only allows you to connect to a virtual machine. The other really open source visualization tools allow you to do everything from actually hosting the virtual machines to management and connecting to them - Mihai Secasiu

Technically, they're using open source in this instance as a way to improve market take up of an existing - proprietary - infrastructure product. In this case, the open client simply allows the use of Linux hosts to view a Windows (or other) virtual desktop hosted on a backend VDI infrastructure. Now, the real response to changing market conditions was the release of the (free) ESXi... more... - Mike Holland

Mike has the situation about right. The title of that piece isn't insightful - this move is about offense, not defense. This is a step towards enabling everywhere access to your desktop in the cloud. - John Troyer

VMware has a HUGE installed base--I wouldn't say their backs are to the wall. Still, if they are feeling a bit of heat from the competition that can only be good for us! - Steve Kaiser from twhirl