Abandon ship! Things are getting worst at Yahoo, many of their talented top exec are turning in their purple badge. Like the scene from Titanic, it’s crew are all jumping off, as the ship sinks together with its passengers.

At first, this doesn’t concern me much. I almost never go to the Yahoo homepage. I have not logged into my Yahoo Mail account in ages. I don’t get my news from Yahoo News.

However there are three Yahoo products which I use quite often, the Yahoo Messenger and two of them is a web service that Yahoo had just acquired, Flickr and Del.icio.us. Actually I use Adium, just that most of the people I know are on Yahoo Messenger.

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The Microsoft and Yahoo! deal is off. It’s water under the bridge living Microsoft with a disappointing note and Yahoo’s stocks plunging down. Top Yahoo executives leaving the company.

All that aside Yahoo and Google had announced a non-exclusive advertising service agreement where Yahoo could use Google’s advertising services in Yahoo’s web assets in U.S. and Canada. This gives Yahoo access to use Google’s Adsense / Adwords services throughout their site. Aspect to see Google Adsense in Yahoo’s search result pages some time soon.

In addition to that, both Yahoo and Google will work on enable interoperability between instant messaging service of both companies. This will result on a better broader online communication services. GTalk isn’t doing that well so this is a good thing for Google. You might be able to chat on your YM buddies on your GMail account in the future.

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The rumors are spot on. Flickr no longer just a photo sharing site, it does videos to. If Google manage to snag up YouTube and have the online video market covered for a couple of years, this Flickr move to make video sharing available might just be Yahoo!’s ticket to enter the online video sharing market. Yes, Yahoo bought Flickr a few years back.

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Things are very democratic lately. With the elections proceedings (U.S elections and the upcoming Malaysia Parliamentary elections) everybody feels the need to vote.

Yahoo! recently launches Yahoo Buzz, a Digg.com like website. Yahoo’s approaches to this is a little bit different from Digg.com’s concept. Users vote on stories from pre-approved news publishers to push them up. If on Digg.com you ‘digg’ a story up and ‘bury’ a story down on Yahoo Buzz you ‘buzz up’ a story and ‘buzz down’.

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It is no secret that Microsoft is looking for a way to venture out into a non-software related field. Take a look at Microsoft Live. However it is clear that they are some what lacking when competing against the web giants with the likes of Google or Yahoo!.

If you can’t beat them, buy them.

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