4 ms·
It's interesting how the article doesn't mention Google's purchase of his last location service, Dodgeball, which it eventually ran into the ground after lettin
by billturner 17y ago
It's interesting how the article doesn't mention Google's purchase of his last location service, Dodgeball, which it eventually ran into the ground after letting it flounder for a couple of years.
I know it's just speculation but I'd hate to see this project get run into the ground just as his last one (and other Yahoo! acquisitions).
- benofsky 17y agoYahoo to be honest has actually done pretty well on not running acquisitions into the ground: Delicious, Flickr, Upcoming, Inquisitor, etc.
- joshu 17y agoI would not say delicious really thrived though.
- benofsky 17y agoSure, nor the others (except maybe Flickr), Yahoo's problem is that they seem to acquire and then do nothing but rarely have they run acquisitions into the ground as such.
- aaronbrethorst 17y agoFlickr's on life support. From what I can tell peering in from the outside, the service is down to a skeleton crew. Too bad, really: I love Flickr, and don't look forward to seeing it croak.
- waterlesscloud 17y agoThe sad thing about Flickr is that it's being killed by Facebook and their massive picture uploading. And the only way that's a superior service is in sharing with friends, it falls way short in every other way. I suppose the sharing aspect is just what consumers have decided to value most.
- aaronbrethorst 17y agoFacebook must be killing them on the consumer side. On the higher end, photographers are using services like http://smugmug.com/ http://smugmug.com/, http://carbonmade.com/ http://carbonmade.com/ and http://livebooks.com/ http://livebooks.com/ I fancy myself as belonging to the prosumer/dedicated amateur photographer segment, and Flickr's still the best bet for me due to its social features and willingness to let me upload high-res photos. But I'd jump ship in a heartbeat if I could find another service that gave me a large community of like-minded photographers looking to improve their craft, AND the ability to securely store all of my RAW files. Seriously, I cannot overstate how important it is to me to be able to stuff all of my RAW files and finished products somewhere secure (in the data backup sense).
- billturner 17y agoMaybe I'm a bit jaded, as a former broadcast.com employee who watched layoff after layoff drain a thriving company to a shell of its former self.