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I worked on Profiles and Pulse so here are some answers. 1. Roadmaps. It wasn't high on Flickr's roadmap. Profiles integration provided little to no value to t
by jmathai 15y ago
I worked on Profiles and Pulse so here are some answers.
1. Roadmaps. It wasn't high on Flickr's roadmap. Profiles integration provided little to no value to them. Plus the way Yahoo! works it would have taken months just to figure out what an "integration" meant. It was talked about (several times).
2. Probably similar reasons as above. This wasn't really talked about. Delicious was kind of a red headed step child internally. Not sure many execs realized it's value - hence the dwindling of the team and eventual selloff.
3. Roadmaps. Yahoo Groups! is huge and understaffed. Even if both sides wanted to do an integration it would take months to decide what that would look like. Given the rate of attrition the people involved might not even be around long enough to see it through.
Interesting blog post but Yahoo!s problems run real deep. You almost have to gut the company to salvage it. Makes me sad :(.
- true_religion 15y agoYQL goes a little way in this direction, but I think all yahoo products should have a public API. Then we can have mashups created by the public, and then Yahoo can pick and choose.
- jmathai 15y agoI always said that YQL is the most underutilized technology at Yahoo! (internally and externally). It has/had the potential to do what it claimed, select * from internet;.
- damncabbage 15y agoIt's great, but I don't want to build anything that relies on it in case they suddenly pull a Y! BOSS on it, or just shut it off completely. It is good for prototyping, though. (There's always a risk when integrating with third-party services, but Yahoo! seems is a bit too shaky and capricious for my liking.)
- jmathai 15y agoAgreed. My statements assumed a Yahoo! which wasn't optimizing itself to shut down services.
- jvandenbroeck 15y agoIdd, sad, it looks like Yahoo is working like a bureaucratic internet company from xx years ago. They could do so much amazing things.