Yahoo! widget enhanced Messenger should go citizen journalism
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Yahoo! enhanced its VoIP messenger with widgets. Okay, it’s not a big deal. And some voices, like the Ken Yarmosh’s, fired on the tiny-made-giant feature.
Guess what? I don’t care! I don’t need my chat application to do any of that — I already have a web browser.
On the contrary, he insisted on more social network widgets. More useful. And which will appear very soon, without any doubt.
What I do need it to help me with is to better manage my interactions with those on my buddylist. If presence is the new dial tone, then I need better ways to manage my presence. I want to be able to make my availability known to certain subsets of my contacts.
But there’s even a new business model that Yahoo can bring with those widgets. Last week, Yahoo announced its intention to launch a citizen video-journalist news service at the end of June.
Sources involved in discussions with Yahoo News said the project, which has been in development for months, will introduce an upload capability that will take the PC out of the connectivity loop, so amateur video journalists can upload footage directly from the location of the event.
Citizen journalism. With real, ordinary people sitting in front of their computer, reporting the news to others that will comment right after.
So imagine a simple widget that shows some article headlines, and allows people to comment/rate them. If they want to, users could start IM and voice conference calls, recorded their says as comments to the article.
We know, it’s not that new, Reuters has inked a deal to pour its headlines into MSN and AIM, but is doing this for market traders only. And if Yahoo is doing this, so it’s going to end up with a Digg competitor that might even be more powerful than the original and its new challenger, Netscape.
We know this idea doesn’t satisfy entirely. So please comment.
Jun 20, 2006 | By Nuno
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