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from the where-have-you-been-all-my-life dept

Mon, Aug 2nd 1999 11:34am — Brian Day
Yahoo! debuted their Yahoo Briefcase last week. The briefcase is the equivalent of 10M of network storage. You can create folders and set protections on the folders. Pretty amazing when I can't exchange files with people in my own company.
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    Mike (profile), 2 Aug 1999 @ 8:11pm

    I'd hate to be Visto

    This is why I wonder about all these companies creating a little piece of the "internet desktop" for the consumer. You just know that Yahoo is going to create it themselves, and then you're dead. Maybe a lucky company can sell out to Yahoo, but most are just going to be in trouble...

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      Vincent W. Yin, 3 Aug 1999 @ 12:01am

      Re: I'd hate to be Visto

      But I think that in general companies do get bought out. I think companies that made shopping carts, web mail, etc. were aiming ot get bought by portals and other big sites more than trying to grow sales teams etc. on their own. It makes sense for small companies to take the risk of technology development and for larger companies to buy the successful ones... Or at least that seems to be the current Net model.

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      Mike Martin, 3 Aug 1999 @ 7:20am

      Re: I'd hate to be Visto

      Maybe Visto should file . . . I was beginning to wonder about the name "Yahoo Briefcase", sounds an awful lot like the place my group shares files and calendars.

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      prash, 3 Aug 1999 @ 12:28pm

      Re: I'd hate to be Visto

      I was checking my Yahoo Mail and they have added some new features. You can now forward your Yahoo Mail to another account and access your mail via a regualr POP client. These guys are amazing.

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        Teck, 3 Aug 1999 @ 1:13pm

        Re: I'd hate to be Visto

        The POP3 interface and mail forwarding is definitely pretty cool. At first, it seems like you can now use your own mail client and escape any advertising, but on closer look, i think if you sign up for those features, you'd be obligated to receive advertisement emails pushed to your mailbox. well, YahooMail's gotta generate revenue somehow.

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      chris, 12 Aug 1999 @ 4:52pm

      Re: I'd hate to be Visto

      Not to be a shameless pitchman, but I'd like to hear what you think of i-drive.com. If you own a PC, we've got a cool tool named Filo for you to play with. Your thoughts...

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      Satish Kumar, 8 Nov 1999 @ 8:26pm

      Can Yahoo Continue Scavenging The Web

      Can Yahoo scavenge competitor's websites and pick up cool innovations and call them their own. This does not sound fair to anyone. Even Yahoo! Sure, the company that gets bought by Yahoo is happy, but what about the other companies who never get bought, and who work 18 hours a day innovating? We need to have laws that protect the intellectual property of small companies. These small companies do not have the resources to file for patents. We need to have a online registry for certifying intellectual property. Any takers? There's a business idea worth millions (hopefully)! Yahoo, please forget you read the last two lines:-)

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    eric, 3 Aug 1999 @ 12:39am

    internet apps

    the internet app market is unreal.. ranging from bookmarks, to files, to calendars... but remember that once bandwidth is no longer an issue... this area will be huge...

    try the following...
    www.i-drive.com
    www.visto.com
    www.bookmarkbox.com
    www.magicaldesk.com

    enjoy,
    eric

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      Mike (profile), 3 Aug 1999 @ 10:59am

      Re: internet apps

      I realize there are a ton of companies in this space, but I'm not convinced of your assertion that bandwidth is what will make the real difference. That's been the fall back claim for so many companies/ideas these days that I'm just not sure I believe it any more. I do think increased bandwidth will help to change things, but it seems that too many people are using it as a crutch. Most people in the workplace have had very high bandwidth for a long time, but the changes haven't appeared to be that drastic....

      Anyway none of these companies seem to have much of a business model, and how long do they last after a Yahoo incorporates the same features? In the software world Microsoft, you don't want to get crushed by Microsoft... on the Internet, ditto for Yahoo.

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