Yahoo Celebrates Communication Evolution

Yahoo! Celebrates online communications through the years following a journey from early PC's to wireless computing. Song by Shitake Monkey "Those Days" from their Street Beef album. Classic video for all people to see.. enjoy

Yahoo - Major reorganization coming soon.

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Well boys and girls there's a new Sheriff in town and her name is Carol Bartz.

"Bartz, former CEO of San Rafael, Calif.-based maker Autodesk, took over as Yahoo's chief executive in January, replacing co-founder Jerry Yang. News reports Monday suggested she is preparing a major shuffle of top executive positions at Yahoo, though the company itself has declined to confirm those rumors.

Among the speculated changes are adding product strategy and management duties to the portfolio of Aristotle Balogh, Yahoo's chief technology officer, and making Hilary Schneider, currently in charge of the Yahoo! U.S. division's marketing efforts, the head of all North America. Bartz is also reportedly looking for a chief marketing officer and other senior executives, and could be planning to name a single executive in charge of its European, Asian and emerging markets divisions.

Bartz is preparing to "severely roll back" an earlier Yahoo organizational reshuffle by Yang last June, according to "All Things Digital." host and blogger Kara Swisher. The earlier shakeup split Yahoo into four regional entities. Bartz reportedly wants to scrap that setup and retrench corporate efforts in a more centralized way.

It should be interesting to see what Bartz does at Yahoo....

Report: Yahoo reorganization may come this week (wnct.com)
A New Sheriff In Yahoo Town Is Shaking Things Up (Channel Web)
Carol Bartz Prepares to Revamp Yahoo Management (Business Week)

The Internet - Over 1 Billion Served

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Well look out McDonald's, it looks like there is someone else working on the billion served motto. Its official folks there are now over 1 Billion users of the Internet according to comScore Inc. These numbers were reaches in December 2008.

"The Asia-Pacific region now accounts for 41 percent of all Internet users, with China ranked as the largest Internet population in the world, says ComScore. China now has 180 million Internet users, or about 18 percent of the worldwide cyberspace audience. The United States ranks second at 16.2 percent, followed by Japan, Germany and the United Kingdom.

“Surpassing 1 billion global users is a significant landmark in the history of the Internet,” says ComScore CEO Magid Abraham. “The second billion will be online before we know it, and the third billion will arrive even faster than that.”

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Top sites include:
Google with 776 million visitors
Microsoft with 647 million visitors
Yahoo with 562 million visitors
Facebook with 222 million visitors (in January there were twice as many recorded for Facebook usage, I have a feeling that the recent election of the new President had something to deal with those numbers)
MySpace with 125 million visitors

Please note these number are issued in the following ways:
"ComScore (Nasdaq: SCOR) said its numbers include Internet users ages 15 or older, from home or work computers. They do not include traffic from public computers, like Internet cafes, or access from mobile phones or PDAs."

So in reality it is alot more but these would be conservative estimates for usages. It would be interesting if someone was out there actually including all of the other online usage resources from PDA's to now Cars.

Global Internet Audiences Exceeds 1 Billion in December 2008 (blog.searchenginewatch.com)

Internet audience tops 1 billion (Nashville Business Journal)

Internet hits major milestone, surpassing 1 billion monthly users (ComputerWorld)

Internet Users Top 1 Billion, Most of Them Asian (PCmag.com)