Yahoo! Research Berkeley is a new research partnership between Yahoo! Inc. and the University of California at Berkeley to explore and invent social media and mobile media technology and applications that will enable people to create, describe, find, share, and remix media on the Web. Yahoo! Research Berkeley combines world-class media technology and design research with the scale and impact of the world's leading internet media company. The project brings together world-renowned experts in the fields of media technology, social software, context-aware computing, mobile computing, and user and design research who will shape the future of internet media. In support of these goals, Yahoo! Research Berkeley and the University of California at Berkeley have created innovative corporate-academic collaboration for research and development. Davis presents a portfolio of work and their philosophy on the direction ahead.