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Today Yahoo! announced that they are going to be offering unlimited storage to their Email users. It makes sense. Recently have switched all my photos over to Yahoo Photos. I uploaded 300 photos from my laptop to their system. It is the best photo storing system I have seen, and trust me I have used a lot of photo sharing sites while doing research for FamilyLearn.

This announcement from Yahoo comes at a great time. I have filled 91% of my 2.5 year old Gmail account. I prefer Yahoos user interface. UI is about the only thing really holding Google back (if you can say that anything is holding them back). The only thing that could keep me with Google at this point is Google Docs. I use Docs daily. So do a bunch of my friends at school.

I always have to ask myself how long this free model will be able to sustain itself. In order for the ad model to work you have to have millions of users. Free is so common that it doesn’t have any buzz anymore. It will be interesting to see how new businesses innovate to compete with free.

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The Pirates trailer is out.

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I think I have turned into a geek. Two things indicate this to me. First, I use web 2.0 Google applications like Docs, and Gmail. Second I use FireFox and I load it on about every computer I touch.

Here is a very interesting interview with Yahoo!’s Jeff Bonforte. He explains that the primary reason Google is struggling with market adoption is that they are run by engineers and struggle with usability. I couldn’t agree more. Yahoo! mail has 270 million email users vs Google’s 70 million. Yahoo! messenger is second only to MSN messenger.

“Usability to consumers at the mass level is the most difficult problem to solve on the internet,” Jeff said. “There is lots of stuff that we can put out there for dorks and geeks like me, because we eat it up. But actually getting to something that is usable is extremely complex.”

Perhaps Google would take over the world if they would just take a little of their billions of dollars and put them into their user interfaces for applications.

As I have been heavily involved in designing the UI for iMemoryBook, I couldn’t agree with Jeff Bonfort more.

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