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Picking on Yahoo
It seems in fashion to criticize Yahoo these days. They almost look like the poor little guy in class that all others pick on. Not entirely fair I think; although they need to get their act together on lot's of things, there's also a lot of great things...

Glimpse of the future
Well the letters IN & T in Yecinto are for innovation and trends, so it's time for a little update from the future:
The future of financial markets - a report from 2015 looking back

This evening IPAN organised a launch party at which several start-ups presented themselves. Very good to see the start-up spirit and a lot of these new webcompanies present themselves. I particularly liked the following:
Fleck - they already got a lot of coverage and of course they were present tonight at this "homeparty" for Boris and Patrick (the founders). For the people that missed the buzz around fleck's launch; fleck is a so-called annotation service. Do check...

One of the predictions many have made and I definitly believe in is that we will see an explosion of vertical search engines in 2007. I will try to keep track of as many (new) launches as I can. Here's a start with the cars vertical...
Last week saw the launch of a Dutch Cars search engine with the funny name "gaspedaal.nl" (accelerator). This site is launched by the company behind vinden.nl and zoeken.nl. This follows the launch of a Cars-(search) vertical in december by Yahoo, although...