Yahoo! on the Web 2.0 Bandwagon

Although companies like Microsoft and Google are getting the headlines, Yahoo! has been quietly building up an arsenal of Web 2.0 products and services. One of the latest and greatest is My Web 2.0, a social search engine that allows tagging of content, "community pages", and personal search history. Then there is Yahoo! 360, a social networking, blogging, photo-sharing mesh of a site — their verision of MySpace. Now that Yahoo! acquired flickr, a major Web 2.0 player, flickr is integrated into 360 as well. Another popular acquistion was that of  Konfabulator (now Yahoo! Widgets), a maker of widgets, which are customizable little things that hang out on your desktop, giving you easy access to a wide range of content like the weather, sports scores, and now, of course, Yahoo!-specific information. (You may remember my post on this). Finally, they’ve one-upped Google and Microsoft by beating them both to the development of an audio search engine, which really deserves its own post.