JG etc.

Got into a good conversation today around thinking about the power of wordpress.com and the potential for tying together as a loosely inter-connected CMS that could be comparable to Yahoo! in the new era of the net.

I’m always fascinated by a property like Yahoo and their millions of uniques. This sheer scale coupled with their ability to literally push people around the net is awesome and in many ways, may never happen again, at least in terms of having a gold rush of users at your disposal.

I think what Matt and team over on the .com side of wordpress have an incredible opportunity to create a property similar to Yahoo! in scale while also having a certain amount of “portal effect” over their user base. Combine that with some intelligent data gathering, identity/networking, and open API’s and in many ways you have what the next version of Yahoo will be. The potential here is far larger than Ning or Facebook because of the domain level of integration and community. This would be the new killer app similar to what email was for Yahoo.

On a more local level, I think what Tumblr is doing in the NYC scene is pretty fascinating.