Yahoo and Google go mobile

As usual, you just can't pass up a chance to be snide, can you?

Agree, most of the dot-com "potential" was just pure hype and spin.

Not really. There were some spectacular failures during the boom/bust years and people with more marketing prowess than anything else, who made the whole industry look bad. That doesn't mean anything online that purports to offer an interesting service is automatically "bunk".

Also, the way the article reference is written, in a way, is a return to the "bad days" (publications like "Fast Company", "Business 2.0" and "Red Herring" come to mind) where anything remotely connected to the internet, or data networks is imbued with all sorts of "cool" catchwords like "3G", and "Dotcom" etc., rather than just talking about whatever the h*ll the product *does* - and more importantly, whether it's *useful* or not.

It takes little knowledge or insight to write about Yahoo or Google. It's like a business writer writing about Walmart: everyone talks about them, news is everywhere, everyone writes about them, who cares?