YahooTV

SpaceAdmiral writes "The New York Times is running a story on Yahoo TV. The story focuses on Lloyd Braun's plan to expand Yahoo! News into a more TV-like format." From the article: "Mr. Braun's handiwork is just starting to be seen at Yahoo. And as he increasingly puts his stamp on the company, the rest of the media - both old and new - are watching carefully, if not nervously. As chairman of ABC's entertainment group, Mr. Braun had a penchant for big offbeat concepts like 'Lost,' which won the Emmy for best drama. At Yahoo, why not create programs in genres that have worked on TV but not really on the Web? Sitcoms, dramas, talk shows, even a short daily humorous take on the news much like Jon Stewart's 'Daily Show' are in the works."

Retrograde?

[ScaryMonkey]

It seems to me like kind of a retrogression to try and implement a TV format on the internet; TV evolved the format it has (i.e. half hour shows with commercial breaks) for reasons that make sense in terms of the medium; And the TV medium is changing as it is, what with TV on demand, Tivo, and so forth. But the internet works on a completely different paradigm. Not to say that it might not be successful; Just kind of sounds like a round peg in a square hole.

Yeah that's original

[coupland]

When your idea of being "offbeat" involves cloning a terrific show like "The Daily Show," chances are you aren't too hip...

Yet another reason I'll never look at Yahoo

[shoppa]

The instant that Yahoo went from being a fairly vanilla search engine to a "web destination" I stopped using it. (Not that I used it much before, but I would occasionally sample the different search engines. At the time it was yahoo, altavista, northernlights, probably some others that I forget.)

Google still rules in terms of places I start at - Incredibly lightweight in terms of "splash" but incredibly heavy in terms of "usability".

Not much else to say otherwise. If I want random examples of what somebody else thinks is important I'll still go to slashdot :-).

Why did you quit visiting Yahoo?

[Futurepower(R)]

I quit visiting Yahoo when I got disgusted about getting paid ads, presented in a very sneaky way. Did they change that? Is it safe to visit again?

A yahoo [reference.com] "is a crude or brutish person". Lesson: Don't trust programmers to name a company. Programmers will invent a name that sounds to them like a great intelligent joke, but causes problems later. How many people who aren't computer professionals know that the joke is "Yet Another Hierarchically Ordered Oracle"?

Another reason programmers don't name things well is they think it is cool to be self-deprecating. That seems to the reason for "Yet Another".

Notice that using a search engine is called "Googling". That indicates the popularity of MSN and Yahoo.

Why is P2P piracy of tv shows popular then?

[NigelJohnstone]

"Not to say that it might not be successful; Just kind of sounds like a round peg in a square hole."

But TV shows via Internet is *already* successful, its just a pirate market at the moment with p2p download. Its just that *streaming* of television isn't successful, but then having tried to watch The Daily Show with John Stewart via http://www.comedycentral.com/ [comedycentral.com] its often stop-start-stop-start, and small window only, its nearly unwatchable. Streaming sucks. They should take a look at how p2p works and send the programs via p2p with ads embedded in the middle rather than try to stream.