Will Yahoo! Go Be the Next Media Bridge?

wh0pper writes "Digital Trend has an interesting take on Yahoo! Go. With Yahoo's acquisition of Meedio, Yahoo! Go will be in the position to be everyones media bridge. With Yahoo!'s intended arrival in the TV environment, it aspires to become the user's guide to all media." From the article: "This would appear to be the worst of nightmares for traditional PayTV operators. Suddenly, they become part of a Yahoo!-defined walled garden of sorts, hidden behind the Yahoo!-branded user interface and reduced to a simple pipe that delivers broadcast television. Without their own proprietary IPG being used, how can they sell pay-per-view and VOD movies?"

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Will Yahoo be the next media bridge?

[Audent]

Not so long as journalists keep getting arrested with Yahoo's help.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=31124

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0909/p01s03-woap.htm l

http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=17180

The real question is this:

[Anonymous Coward]

If Yahoo! can matrix sticky niches and incentivize impactful interfaces it will surely optimize intuitive synergies amongst its users and global b2b partners. After that, they can scale next-generation systems and transition cross-platform deliverables. After that, it's money in the bank, baby.

Theory and reality

[Opportunist]

Yes, in theory Communism was the idea to give to the average man what he needed. In fact, a small ruling class had everything, the majority had little to nothing.

Sounds familiar?

Actually, both systems are, in reality, the same. Capitalism is just harder to see through. In Capitalism, you have that dangling carrot that keeps telling you, if you just work hard enough, you can get up there as well. Bullspit. It's exactly the same shit in both systems. Whether you can't buy anything because it ain't there or because you are already SO deep in debt that you can't afford it makes essentially no difference.