Yahoo's has struck great vibe with their developer events, the Hackdays especially. And a handful of their APIs and developer related tools are too good even to

Yahoo's has struck great vibe with their developer events, the Hackdays especially. And a handful of their APIs and developer related tools are too good even today. Yahoo Pipes was way ahead of it's time when it was released. YQL is one of the coolest APIs I've used. And a few others. Start offering freemium APIs. Go all out with rapid prototypes that doesn't try to do what's already there (like what they did with Yahoo Mash). Right now their homepage seems like they just want to try and make a penny of anything from Auto to social apps to finance. Shutdown or spin off a lot of unrelated features & services that clutter their vision.