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my perception is - they dont love the internet. they are missing the whole "fuck you, were yahoo, were building the internet" chutzpah which was so charming,
by jgord 11y ago
my perception is - they dont love the internet.
they are missing the whole "fuck you, were yahoo, were building the internet" chutzpah which was so charming, and for which we all have a little glowing candlewick in our hearts for.
For example .. I really wanted YUI to be usable .. it was so close.. but they didn't listen when people gave them feedback - eg. telling them to polish the table grid widget, this control was arguably the reason people were even using yui at all.
The internet pluggable data feed pipes thing was promising.. almost there but not quite gelling in the developer group-mind.
They have to hire some really opinionated people and let them loose on skunkworks [ but realworld ] projects .
I look at the yahoo front page once every 3m to see if its still dead.. I check my email there due to nostalgia.
They need to forget about ad revenue bullshit, get fired up and make stuff.
I can guarantee there are great people at yahoo gnawing their arms off because they have nothing to rally around.
They are dying anyway .. its time to hit for the bleachers.
- jgord 11y agoI read the article - There is not a single bullet point I give a shit about, that isn't summarized by their share price. I look at the yahoo.com front page, I look at msn.com front page - they look similar and are both spam to a first order approximation. If they wanted to, they could turn sentiment around in 3 months. There are so many things they can do : - become the datafeed API for the internet - buy a startup thats kicking ass [ and leave them alone to win ] - buy a tech video review media site thats growing fast - put up a $200k prize for best Yahoo innovation app - take 7 devs / designers / product people, put them in a room and let them have at it to make an app For any of these to work, they have to build a firewall around it, insulating if from the process of a big company, so it feels like a startup.