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I'd start with Yahoo Stores. PG, RTM, and Trevor Blackwell's creation was cutting-edge in 1996 but the web has changed a lot since then and Yahoo Stores hasn't
by ratsbane 15y ago
I'd start with Yahoo Stores. PG, RTM, and Trevor Blackwell's creation was cutting-edge in 1996 but the web has changed a lot since then and Yahoo Stores hasn't. The store editor would proabably still work with Netscape 3, it's so non-web-2.0-ish. Even so, a lot of businesses still use it, but that number is probably shrinking.
With Yahoo Stores up-to-date I would try to position Yahoo as a small-to-medium business portal. It's a lucrative market and the competition isn't what it could be (despite the success of Sales Force, Magento, et al).
This would be, or seem to be, a big risk to current revenue, but unless they are bold enough to do that it's going to fade away in time anyway.
Actually motivating the middle management at Yahoo to do this would be tough. Perhaps it's time to simplify the management layer and give technical people more responsibility.
- InclinedPlane 15y agoThis got me to thinking. Can anybody think of any Yahoo property that appears to have received more than, say, the equivalent of 6 months work from a single dev over the course of the last 5 years? Flickr has seen some teeny tiny changes but everything else seems to be stuck in perpetual stasis.
- ratsbane 15y agoGood point. I do remember someone from Yahoo who spoke at the first Startup School about the webmail redesign - but that was five or six years ago. Why is everything stuck in perpetual stasis over there? Is it that the leadership doesn't have the vision to suggest or sign off on major redesigns, or that middle management can't make them happen?
- ig1 15y agoThey'be been rewriting Yahoo Mail in nodejs: http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2010/07/multicore_http_server_with_nodejs/ http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2010/07/multicore...