One of the first things Jobs did when he returned was streamline Apple's products. If you go to Yahoo.com now, you see about 12 things on the left-hand side th

One of the first things Jobs did when he returned was streamline Apple's products. If you go to Yahoo.com now, you see about 12 things on the left-hand side that are essentially "WTF?"; things Yahoo shouldn't be doing (and that's before going to Everything.Yahoo.com for the complete list of random garbage). Yahoo should be focusing on its strengths and mercilessly removing everything else. Yahoo has always been pretty good at apps: cross-platform Messenger, an impressive web mail interface for the iPad that looks almost native, etc. They are a web and design powerhouse, if only somebody told them. This is expertise that can be sold; they need to continue building a small number of apps to demonstrate their prowess, and contract this out to develop anything for anyone (e.g. make Yahoo the go-to place for high quality mobile apps for the iPhone?). Even throw the free software community a bone by pulling a Nokia (the old Nokia) and making a Qt-like dual-license so their services have even greater reach. Yahoo is also a decent source of news, but they aren't pushing this enough. With a bit of care and attention they could clean up the mess that is modern media and give people a really desirable digital newspaper...something that everyone would want as their home page. Find and fire the people in their company who build toolbars and installers that push toolbars. The last thing any company needs is to be connected with something that users may loathe. That's just off the top of my head. :)