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04:00 PMAdam Berger said:

That is it. We are off to a lunch with the Yahoo team. Leave any questions you may have in the comment section and we will try hard to get them answered. We will be bringing you the Intel Keynote live from CES later today. Thanks for reading.

03:58 PMAdam Berger said:

As Yahoo moves forward their goal is to make the web more and more simple in the future.

03:57 PMAdam Berger said:

Click for a larger image. David is now on stage, saying that what interests him most is that you can build data on top of data. Build widgets and apps on top of Yahoo Mail and Search and then build meta data and tags from users on top of that. This could be coming sooner than later. In the coming months there will be more and more announcements.

03:55 PMAdam Berger said:

“The web, as we go forward is about collaboration to simplify your life.”

03:53 PMAdam Berger said:

Click for a larger image. If someone is watching TV a small message can pop up and tell them that they were just invited to dinner. If they are a Flickr fan, Yahoo will grab some images (if they exist) and put them onto the eVite.

03:52 PMAdam Berger said:

If people share their information (ie. food cuisines that they enjoy) and Yahoo can determine what the most overlaps are and then suggest restaurants that are located within a radius of where you are. You then can just drag the restaurant you choose into a 3rd party app like eVite to send the invitation.

03:47 PMAdam Berger said:

Click for a larger image. 1. Make Yahoo mail an open platform. This would become smarter and more relevant. You would be able to add in IMs, text messages, voice mails and more. You can then create a relevance ordering which would then be able to narrow down to the most relevant. You would also be able to move email messages into a map and the data will be able to sync with the map, then providing relevant information (you can see a review of a restaurant name that you plan to go to from dinner). There are also tags, live on the map, to see what else other people are talking about.

03:39 PMAdam Berger said:

Now we are viewing a sneak peek of how Yahoo will simplify your life in the future.

03:38 PMAdam Berger said:

You can check this out via mobile.yahoo.com or on your phone at beta.m.yahoo.com (which will be available later today).

03:35 PMAdam Berger said:

The big kicker is the mobile advertising that is being introduced as part of the platform. Luckily for advertisers (and for consumers as well), you can create the same sort of “widget” to run on the platform, across all devices.

03:34 PMAdam Berger said:

(The presenter with Yang is: Marco Boerries, executive vice president, Yahoo! Connected Life)

03:33 PMAdam Berger said:

Yahoo Go is available on 300 devices. 3.0 will also work on these same 300 devices. Widgets will be able to run via Yahoo Go as well as on any phone that connects to the internet (and supports HTML or XHTML). Since widgets live on the internet you can easily bring them from device to device. You write a widget once and they are supported across all platforms/devices.

03:29 PMAdam Berger said:

Via Snippets you can really add anything to this page, not only Yahoo apps. Every publisher and developer around the world can now develop widgets for Yahoo Go. These widgets will launch with MTV News, MySpace, and eBay. All you need to do it “add my widget” and it can then show up with your home buttons.

03:24 PMAdam Berger said:

The Yahoo button brings you to a brand new Yahoo homepage, which is fully open and customizable. There is search up top, then what’s new (new emails, upcoming appointments), then Snippets (ie. news from Yahoo, weather, etc—they are mini RSS subscriptions).

03:22 PMAdam Berger said:

Click for a larger image. Marco (or Marko) just came out to discuss mobile. Today they are announcing Yahoo Mobile 3.0 (last year they introduces 2.0). There is a great new GUI visual experience. 2.0 brought the home buttons across the bottom, 3.0 expands on that. But 3.0 does more than beauty. There are shortcuts to reduce the steps to get stuff done (new mail messages, clicking through friends on Flickr to see there photos). There are also balloons that show a preview of what may be below (ie. the weather from the last time to checked it, the last map you were on, the last email you were reading).

03:17 PMAdam Berger said:

We will be hearing about a bunch of mobile launches and then a sneak peek at future desktop experiences.

03:17 PMAdam Berger said:

Today we are all juggling non-stop connections online with multiple social networks, groups and more. Yahoo wants to be the starting point for your online world. The world is becoming more: open, social, and mobile. The future is about making the web more relevant than ever.

03:15 PMAdam Berger said:

The intention was always that the web would go mainstream. There are over 1 billion users online. The web has become deeper and richer with all media from before (movies, sports, tv, pictures, documents) as well as everything from the future.

03:13 PMAdam Berger said:

CEO James Yang has taken the stage.He thinks it is time to get Yahoo yodeling again.

03:12 PMAdam Berger said:

The lights just dimmed. They are showing a Yahoo promo video withal the places and things you can do with Yahoo: mobile, accounts, Flickr, etc. Amazingly enough everyone in the video is so happy to Yahoo.

03:03 PMAdam Berger said:

We are seated in the theater. “We will begin in 2 minutes”.