Will Yahoo! Go Be the Next Media Bridge?

wh0pper writes "Digital Trend has an interesting take on Yahoo! Go. With Yahoo's acquisition of Meedio, Yahoo! Go will be in the position to be everyones media bridge. With Yahoo!'s intended arrival in the TV environment, it aspires to become the user's guide to all media." From the article: "This would appear to be the worst of nightmares for traditional PayTV operators. Suddenly, they become part of a Yahoo!-defined walled garden of sorts, hidden behind the Yahoo!-branded user interface and reduced to a simple pipe that delivers broadcast television. Without their own proprietary IPG being used, how can they sell pay-per-view and VOD movies?"

It's not that great

[jgartin]

Yahoo Go seems like a good idea--on paper. The software sucks, though. Anyone who's downloaded it should know what I'm talking about. It can't use my tuner card. The purple hurts my eyes. The menus are just a bunch of text without graphics. The music playback portion seemed to work ok. And, the whole interface was much more responsive than MCE/BeyondTV/anything I've tried for Windows.

Or nothing, rather

[jdbartlett]

If it did all those things, it would be everything. It doesn't, though.

"it seems that this is a piece of software that will turn you computer into a dvr"
I don't see this on their website, rather, I see instructions on how to connect your computer to your TV so that you can view media on your TV. Anyone with the right video card, TV, and a cable long enough to reach both can do this anyway without installing Yahoo! Go.

"and act as a google desktop search sidebar"
The most important feature in Google Desktop is its Spotlight-like indexing. Again, I don't see this listed as a feature of Yahoo! Go. All Yahoo! Desktop really does is bring various Yahoo! online services (contacts, messenger, mail, music) together on one screen. Save the space and your desktop and just use those services online.

"allow your mobile phone to access media files at yahoo"
Firstly, this will only work if you have a Nokia 6 series phone (Yahoo supports no other make/model). You can use "Go Mobile" to access your Yahoo! Contacts, Yahoo! Photos, Yahoo! Messenger and Yahoo! Mail. Anyone who's used WAP on their cellphone will recognize all these as services Yahoo! already offers all cellphone users as online tools.

Re:Law coming in 3, 2, 1...

[WilliamSChips]

No. Communism, for all its flaws, at least sorta tried to help out the average man. This is what we call propertarianism, the belief that everything should be property. Combines the worst parts of Communism and Capitalism.