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And therefore you just abused the inaccurate button. The story has nothing to do with that, and you are trying to get a legitimate story burined on a technicality.You sir, are what is wrong with Digg.

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lakawak,whatever dude ... and by the way, who are you again? Oh, thats right, GOD .. because you just judged me based solely on what was meant to be just a joke.get over it ... quit crying

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Actually, I think the submitter is the one confused. The article doesn't mention "open source" anywhere. It didn't mention APIs either, but that's probably because of the wide audience.

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Initially, based on several sources, not just this article, I understood that the immediate development was the release of the API, first to Hack Day attendees, then generally released. Then, Yahoo would move to open the code once they had sorted out the security issues, and most likely separated some functions to keep on their proprietary side. Now, you have me wondering too... the careful wording is tricky. But anyway, the main point is the same, as I don't think any of us expected full code control on an email app that was still operating as Yahoo Mail - thats huge liability. The shift toward open collaboration by such major corporations, and the fact that some of them look like they are FINALLY getting it.. is huge.

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I wouldn't call Google a media company at all -- they're a pure tech company. Yahoo's focus has always been content (think Finance / News / Tech / etc.), whereas Google has always been about technology. This is obvious enough when you visit each company's home pages.Services that Google provides that people actually use:- Search- GMail- Video- froogle- Maps- Groups- Blogger- Google EarthALL technology services.Services that Yahoo provides that people actually use:- Mail- Search- Messenger- News- Photos- Flickr- del.iciou.us- Shopping- Maps- Finance- Tech- HotJobs- Personals- Travel- groups- Autos- Music- Directory service- HealthA handful of these (messenger, mail, maps, photos) are technologies, and the rest are media properties.Both companies have a bunch of services that nobody uses, too (like Yahoo 360 and GTalk).Google is all about search and everyone knows it. That's not a bad thing by any means -- I personally wish that more companies would try to focus on making a small number of really great products instead of a huge array of mediocre ones.If you don't count search revenue, Yahoo makes about 10 times as much as Google, and even with search traffic Yahoo gets about 5 times as many page views per day as google does (at least according to alexa, which is naturally not very accurate). Yahoo was huge way before anyone cared about search.

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etnu ... you left off a ton of sites that Google owns. Like I said, just because it doesn't have google.com in the url doesn't mean they don't own it. See here <a class="user" href="http://whois.webhosting.info/216.239.37.99&quot;&gt;http://whois.webhosting.info/216.239.37.99&lt;/a&gt; for a nice list.Now .. do you still wish to debate the content issue?

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Thanks for that link. I made sure to mark that other story as a dupe.

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They released an API, not the source code. Marked as inaccurate.

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ComputerWorld's story of it:<a class="user" href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&amp;articleId=9003791&amp;source=NLT_APP&amp;nlid=48&quot;&gt;http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&amp;articleId=9003791&amp;source=NLT_APP&amp;nlid=48&lt;/a&gt;

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