Yahoo 3D

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

YAHOO! AND CALIGARI CORPORATION ANNOUNCE YAHOO! 3D

A New 3D World Opened for 3D Enthusiasts and Mainstream Web Users

By clicking on the Yahoo! 3D link on the Yahoo! main site, users can now travel through 3D worlds while searching for information on the Web. One click brings the cyber traveler to an expansive 3D courtyard of buildings. Each building represents a familiar Yahoo! category, such as Arts, Sciences, or Recreation and Sports. Viewers choose to be guided by pre-defined camera views or roam freely to any building. Each main category building contains 3D objects representing subcategories, such as a ballerina for "Dance" and rain clouds and lightening for "Weather."

http://docs.yahoo.com/docs/pr/release55.html

I want laugh, but maybe I should not because the press release is dated:

Mountain View, CA -- October 28, 1996

Now this is not 1996 and your daddy's internet. Yahoo's new chief, Carol A. Bartz is from Autodesk and Microsoft Corporation in early 2008 acquired Caligari. In addition Microsoft has for years been working with Dassault makers of 3DVia, PLM,software, Enovia, Solidworks and Catia, on a number of projects. To quote Dassault:

To stay ahead of global competition, manufacturers must create a collaborative environment that brings together all of the key functions including engineering, manufacturing, marketing and sales teams. By integrating ENOVIA V6 with Microsoft SQL Server and the suite of Microsoft Office tools, users will have desktop access to real-time information and project details as needed, enabling employees to work more productively. In addition, Microsoft’s Unified Communications technologies combined with the ENOVIA 3DLive application, provide collaboration tools that enhance the user’s ability to work seamlessly in 3D, regardless of their geographical location or function.

“Most organizations today need to collaborate cross-functionally, bringing together marketing, product planning, customers and outside suppliers to develop high-quality, winning product designs and doing so in a manner that helps products get out to market faster,” said Rob Shinno, global director, Hi-Tech Strategy & Solutions ENOVIA R&D Dassault Systèmes,. “By working together, Dassault Systèmes and Microsoft are able to offer an affordable alternative to more expensive, complex data base solutions—giving companies both large and small the power to easily collaborate using the familiar Microsoft tools that are ubiquitous in business.”

Quote above from: a Press Release dated June 2009

Unbelievably as of today with 3D so hot for movies and with all the talk of Google and Mozilla adding 3D to the browser do a search on Yahoo & 3D and see if anything is left of their first vision.

The Domain name yahoo3d.com is not currently registered. Available for you now!

http://www.whois.net/whois/yahoo3d.com

beware though..

The industry’s transition to respect and professionalism may not be entirely complete. One strategy that has cast a stigma over the industry is called typo-squatting — registering domain names with variations and misspellings of major brand names, in the hopes that Web users will inadvertently stumble upon the sites. It has not gone away.

In the last few months, Yahoo, Dell, BMW and Microsoft have all sued small domain registrars and domainers, asserting that they are profiting from thousands of names similar to their trademarks. The cases are pending.

Quote above via: New York Times- Technology 2-2008

This is not typo-squatting to register this domain name, it is brain squatting and yes registering the name would be a clear trademark violation even though there is no sign of a "Yahoo 3D" so I guess Yahoo does not have to worry, or does it?