Paul Lomax - Two Point Oh

Emre Sokullu at Read/WriteWeb comments on a Yahoo’s recent acquisitions - and in hindsight it looks like they picked up some real bargains (although most of the prices aren’t public).  What’s surprising is that 2006 saw just three purchases - they were ahead of the curve and the spree was really in 2005. 

Their two point oh round-up looks like this:

1. Blo.gs - blog pinging service
2. Flickr - photo sharing
3. Upcoming - price unknown
4. del.icio.us  - social bookmarking
5. Konfabulator - desktop search
6. Jumpcut - online video
7. Bix - online karaoke
8. MyBlogLog - social networking

Yahoo certainly paid less for the whole basket of web 2.0 apps than Google paid for YouTube… perhaps they learnt from the experience of spendingUS$3.6bn on GeoCities in 1999.

Wikipedia has a complete list of Yahoo acquisitions dating back to the (first) dotcom boom.

Update: Pete Abilla has put together a neat timeline of acquisitions by Google, Yahoo and Microsoft using Ajax.