Radio, the MySpace killer
In late 2003, early 2004 we had talks with Yahoo about them acquiring UserLand.The idea was that Yahoo would get into the weblog hosting business, along with customizable River of News aggregators.
Had we done the deal, it seems Yahoo might today compete with News Corp's MySpace.
Google Reader would still be playing catch-up.
It's absolutely incredible that Yahoo "walked away" from a deal with Userland. I cannot think of a reason that they would do such a thing.