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Are you seriously suggesting that when Microsoft made its final offer in 2008, Yahoo was one of "the hottest tech companies"?

• cocktailpeanuts 10y ago
  no
• paganel 10y ago
  Not the OP, but I remember that from a developer's perspective (mine) Yahoo was pretty hot back in 2006-2007. Their dev center and API's were on par with Google's, if not better, while Yahoo Pipes was a very cool and interesting thing which has not been successfully replicated until now. Companies like FB were cool only because they had an exponential user growth and because of the rumors of them poaching engineers from Google or Yahoo for insane financial packages. That started to change around 2010 I'd say, when the FB devs started to open themselves up more to the world.
  • basch 10y ago
    who is replicating pipes?
    • paganel 10y ago
      I remember reading somth about a proof-of-concept replica of Pipes here on HN, I might be wrong, though, can't remember the source.
      • basch 10y ago
        part of pipes was the community of work that you could clone and contribute to. just recreating the technology isnt the same thing.