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Yahoo And ABC News Partners Up Long Term, Delivering First Collaborative Project As In Interviewing President Obama At 2:35 PM ET

Oct 3, 11 12:29 PM

ABC News is a traditional news company that yearns for an evolution so it won’t be left behind in the brave new world as we know it as the world wide web.  Yahoo on the other hand was among the coolest Web 1.0 startups, and now it has become Web 2.0 giant among giants of Web 2.0; unfortunately, Yahoo has been on a decline in terms of innovation and bottom line.  The two have decided to team up together to improve themselves in terms of coolness, relevancy, innovation and bottom line.  According to Forbes, Yahoo provides reach and ABC News provide contents — I guess both have to work on coolness and the rest!

Right after their announcement of partnership, Yahoo and ABC News announce that they will host an interview with president Obama which will make to be available on the websites of Yahoo News and ABC News.  The program will air at 2:35 PM ET.  You can actually submit questions that you want to ask of president Obama to Yahoo right now.  Yahoo will pick appropriate questions to ask president Obama when the show goes live.

What your opinion on Yahoo-ABC News partnership?  Do you think they will bring coolness to the next level?  Will these two will be able to become more relevant as Web 2.0 goes away gradually and Web 3.0 arrives meticulously?

Curious about Web 3.0?  I find article “How Web 3.0 Will Work“ to be interesting, because I believe that the line between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 is rather blurry unless there will be innovations that surely define what is and what is not makes Web 2.0 and Web 3.0.  Of course, you can also care not for labels, and just say it is now that is more interesting than ever.

So, instead each tries to proceed with one’s own evolution, each has decided to join force and start a revolution together!  In conclusion, it will be interesting to see how Yahoo and ABC News work together.  Unfortunately, there is one looming rumor that may worry Yahoo users, and the rumor is about how Jack Ma, the founder and CEO of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, wants to buy the whole Yahoo.  If the rumor is true and if the event has the potential to be fully realized, it will be even more interesting to see how ABC News will cope with such change.

Source:  http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2011/10/03/with-abc-deal-is-yahoo-moving-away-from-original-content/

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Apture Introduces Additional Relevant Contents And Retains Web Visitors For Websites

Jun 5, 11 12:50 AM

I think Apture is pretty ingenious.  It allows website owners to retain visitors on their websites a little longer if not long enough.  Albeit, it’s entirely depending on the web visitors’ behaviors, but Apture does give web visitors a chance to explore deeper into certain texts/topics that are mentioned on certain websites.  By highlighting certain texts, Apture will present an option for web visitors to see related stories and web links to the current highlighted texts.  The magic is that Apture won’t redirect web visitors away from the owners’ websites.  Instead of anything, Apture opens up an extra layer in Javascript and present additional information on the highlighted texts that way.

The first drawback for Apture is that it requires web visitors to enable Javascript on their browsers.  Security conscious web visitors may not have their browsers enabled with Javascript.  I use a Firefox’s plugin known as Noscript to block Javascript automatically, and I from time  to time enable Javascript manually for my favorite websites that I know to be clean only.  The second drawback for Apture is that web visitors will not know about its capability until they perchance/accidentally highlight over certain texts.  Nonetheless, I must admit Apture’s appealing nature is its ability to provide additional relevant contents for web visitors of certain websites.

In conclusion, as long Apture’s intention is pure and stays that way, then I don’t see anything wrong of using Apture to provide additional information on just about any text that is currently made available on websites.  I myself has enabled Apture through CloudFlare service, and I have to admit that it’s certainly a wonderful additional capability for my website to exhibit.  Oh, it’s free too by the way!  My wish is that Apture continues to improve its application capability and stay pure somehow by not corrupting websites’ owners with junk links and information and advertisements.  Then again, I understand that nothing is FREE, because everyone has to make a living.  Let just hope Apture’s creator is able to find way of making living through Apture without corrupting the very application’s appealing nature.  For now, Apture rocks my world!

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