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Yahoo had/has a cool products, mail, groups, pipes, boss, Flickr ... Instead of improving these products, Mayer went on a shopping spree and bought useless thi

Yahoo had/has a cool products, mail, groups, pipes, boss, Flickr ... Instead of improving these products, Mayer went on a shopping spree and bought useless things , like Tumblr (I'm sorry but Tumblr is a complete failure under Yahoo), Sumly and basically let them rot, just like the previous products. And she want to stay 3 more years ? without a serious plan ? Ultimately, MSFT will buy Yahoo, so I'm sure Mayer will get a good bonus, but what a fiasco she was.

duaneb 11y ago
I disagree, tumblr as a social site has fluorished under Yahoo. If twitter, facebook, and pinterest have shown anything, you can build the community and pivot into profitability. If you want to see failures, look at flickr or delicious.
- spriggan3 11y ago
  > I disagree, tumblr as a social site has fluorished under Yahoo Tumblr is a commercial failure under Yahoo. It didn't make money then, it won't make money now. > twitter, facebook, and pinterest have shown anything Neither of them have been acquired by another company... let alone Yahoo. > look at flickr Flickr has actual paid users and is one of the only service at yahoo that is still relevant.
tcdent 11y ago
> useless things , like Tumblr (I'm sorry but Tumblr is a complete failure under Yahoo) Buying Tumblr and then causing it to underperform are two separate points. The potential for success (before acquisition) would characterize it a useful thing. Yahoo has actively devalued Tumblr, like the other web 2.0 acquisitions, seemingly because they are stuck in a previous era. > Yahoo had/has a cool products, mail, groups, pipes, boss, Flickr You think they should compete with gmail? Groups is worthless. Pipes is a cute experiment and will never appeal to the mainstream. Flickr, if only they could target the camera in everyones pocket instead of the prosumer cream. None of these are good bets... Yahoo Shopping could be considered a success for it's time, should they do that again? If there is a next purchase, they should take the opportunity to learn from the new success, rather than try to re-apply the ways of old.

duaneb 11y ago

I disagree, tumblr as a social site has fluorished under Yahoo. If twitter, facebook, and pinterest have shown anything, you can build the community and pivot into profitability. If you want to see failures, look at flickr or delicious.

spriggan3 11y ago
> I disagree, tumblr as a social site has fluorished under Yahoo Tumblr is a commercial failure under Yahoo. It didn't make money then, it won't make money now. > twitter, facebook, and pinterest have shown anything Neither of them have been acquired by another company... let alone Yahoo. > look at flickr Flickr has actual paid users and is one of the only service at yahoo that is still relevant.

tcdent 11y ago

> useless things , like Tumblr (I'm sorry but Tumblr is a complete failure under Yahoo) Buying Tumblr and then causing it to underperform are two separate points. The potential for success (before acquisition) would characterize it a useful thing. Yahoo has actively devalued Tumblr, like the other web 2.0 acquisitions, seemingly because they are stuck in a previous era. > Yahoo had/has a cool products, mail, groups, pipes, boss, Flickr You think they should compete with gmail? Groups is worthless. Pipes is a cute experiment and will never appeal to the mainstream. Flickr, if only they could target the camera in everyones pocket instead of the prosumer cream. None of these are good bets... Yahoo Shopping could be considered a success for it's time, should they do that again? If there is a next purchase, they should take the opportunity to learn from the new success, rather than try to re-apply the ways of old.