Yahoo's relatively new CTO Ari Balogh expanded upon Yahoo's "open" initiatives in a keynote speech to the Web2.0 conference yesterday. There's a very extensive discussion, including a video of the keynote, on the TechCrunch site (additional coverage in Search Engine Journal). The SearchMonkey beta is the first step in executing on the strategy, which will roll out in increments over the next several months.

The "OS" part is not "operating system" but "open strategy." Beyond openness, the themes of Balogh's talk were: making Yahoo more social, more consistent and unified, more personal and even more "portable."

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