Yes, We Have No RSS

Yahoo! gets RSS, no question of that.

Yahoo! is an official partner of the FIFA World Cup.

Why, then, does The Official Site of FIFA World Cup not have RSS feeds?

Tags: worldcup, yahoo

Yahoo Un-MVNO

Following on from my idle Yahoo MVNO speculation, and on the back of Yahoo’s impressive Q1 results yesterday, I found this snippet in a November 2004 press release:

[SBC and Yahoo!] will work to develop a co-branded SBC Yahoo! experience for SBC Yahoo! customers who subscribe to Cingular wireless service, enabling them to access personalized Web-based content and all their integrated messages.

Not quite an MVNO, but an interesting stepping stone perhaps?

Om on Yahoo's Mojo Retrieval

Excellent article by Om Malik on Yahoo’s resurgence:

These are not moves that will have a material impact on the company’s bottom line. Yahoo’s future, as far as I am concerned is in broadband and mobile. It has partnerships with phone companies where it is their content partner, and is forging many such relationships in the wireless space.

I’m somewhat surprised that we’ve not yet seen any strong signs pointing towards a Yahoo MVNO. It certainly seems to me that Yahoo have the brand and the cash to do something along these lines. They also have the massive advantage that they actually understand content and how to broker the right kinds of deals with content providers (whereas many existing mobile operators merely believe that they understand content). I’d certainly be more interested in a Yahoo MVNO than the easy one (apart from the business model, but they took that from Denmark).

Perhaps they could even take a leaf out of Amazon’s book and trial the idea in the UK, as Amazon have done with their DVD rental service. Maybe then we’d get flat rate data charges in the UK.