After a couple of false starts, Yahoo is taking its next step into online video by creating new original programming for the Web. Yahoo had a difficulty in its past endeavors with online video because TV was too steep a competitor, but this new content is aimed at being Web-centric. The Internet giant’s executives have found that this strategy will make it sustainable by not competing with TV.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/technology/internet/16yahoo.html?_r=1