Once leading search engine, now “entertainment portal” Lycos has released a new Web 2.0 feature, “Mix”, that lets users create playlists of video clips from video sites including YouTube and Google Video.
In a stunningly innovative move (not) Mix enables users to invite others to watch videos and chat about them online. Yep, scrape the content, serve it up, run ads against it and make a profit, but it’s all ok, it’s a Web 2.0 thing after all :-)
According to Online Media Daily, Lycos COO Brian Kalinowskihe said the goal [of Mix] was to create a product that allows groups of people to pull content from a variety of sources around the Web and yes, Lycos plans to offer banner ad units and sponsorships around the Mix community features.
Originally posted on February 8, 2007 @ 6:15 pm
What the heck is lycos and it looks like a ton of the web still uses this who are they?
Back in the olden days (insert old fogy music here), it use to be Yahoo, Excite and Lycos when it came to search engines, there was probably a couple of others as well (best of the web comes to mind) but these were the top 3. Along with Excite, Lycos pretty much burned in Bubble 1.0, but you might recognise the name from Wired, as Terra Lycos, the later company (german owned for memory) also owned Wired Mag online for many years. As for todays activities, the only thing I know about them now is they own and run a service called Tripod, which also does blogging (not huge, but B level free service), Tripod was bought by Lycos years ago, Tripod originally being the main competition to Geocities way back then (Geocities being bought by Yahoo!). Enough history :-) ….