The Future Of Yahoo!

From looking at the smaller picture, it's interesting to see what Yahoo!'s future vision could be.

They recently bought Flickr, as built (in part) by my ex collegue at emap, Cal Henderson. Flickr (if you've been offline the past year) is the social photo sharing network getting so much attention lately.

They have hired Russell Beattie, the well known mobile technology evangalist and blogger.

Finally, they have just hired my old project supervisor from the University of Kent, Dave Beckett. Dave has been very influential in the development of RDF, the technology that promises to be the cornerstone of the seemingly fabelled Semantic Web.

It seems they see the future to be semantic, social and mobile. It's the way we've been heading, but high profile recruitment just seems to confirm this.

Interesting times!