While Pipes was a really cool product, I doubt it would have changed anything. Reminds me google wave, great appeal to engineers but hard to sell to the masses

While Pipes was a really cool product, I doubt it would have changed anything. Reminds me google wave, great appeal to engineers but hard to sell to the masses :/ Yahoo has indeed had a product problem for a while, but I think it's more of a consequence of its internal culture of technical mediocrity and IBM-like middle management.