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Why Sunsetting Delicious Matters
- beoba 16y agoJesus Christ, techcrunch is really milking this story
- steveklabnik 16y agoWell, you (and I, and everyone else) do keep reading, so...
- spooneybarger 16y agoi have tech crunch blocked so i'm not. i do like to come see the comments from HN users every now and then...
- mattmanser 16y agoIt’s kind of shocking that a company with the resources of Yahoo couldn’t innovate and turn [Delicious] into a success Most bizarre line of the article. I don't follow it that closely but acquisitions before profit seem to be a sure fire way of the new parent company wasting a lot of money. Perhaps we just hear of the failures here.
- aresant 16y ago"Why couldn’t Yahoo have a small team devoted to this and keep on innovating?" Because even if Delicious made $10m a year that wouldn't move the needle at yahoo. Every project at some point requires the attention of department heads, even up to CEO and with 24 hours in the day any company, big or small, has to pick their battles and focus. With Yahoo being assaulted on multiple fronts in their core biz, I think it's a great sign of their near term prospects that they are making hard decisions and cutting the fat.
- joshu 16y agoThe idea at the time was to use the data in delicious to augment and improve search. The analysis wasn't actually done till two years or so after the acquisition, and by then the team was in the throes of the stupid d2 development debacle.
- aresant 16y agoThat would have been awesome - the potential to dynamically understand trending topics, see how people are sharing and pushing links, understand personal preferences tied to accounts - so much potential.
- nhangen 16y agoWow, the title of the TC article is misleading as hell. I didn't find an explanation of why it matters. What I did find was a complaint about it being "sunsetted."