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unfortunately Yahoo has yet to learn that 'Caja' sucks. I just talked to some people at myspace yesterday and they are pulling Caja, just as Google Gadgets did

by jdavid 18y ago

unfortunately Yahoo has yet to learn that 'Caja' sucks. I just talked to some people at myspace yesterday and they are pulling Caja, just as Google Gadgets did and anyone else who has played with the technology. It really makes app development a pain, and non conforming to the other networks, so you don't have write once tweek everywhere, but you have rewrite from line 1, and oh, don't use prototype, jquery, dojo, or any other javascript productivity tool. right now Yahoo!s brand identity is clashing with them being able to come out of the gate strong on the social platform, and developers will not be able to take their apps and just have them run on yahoo, they will have the choice to either edge and grow revenue on myspace, hi5, and orkut, or to stop and rewrite for yahoo. I suspect that devs will choose to grow first on the other networks and then take their time porting to yahoo. Nintendo put a browser with flash in the Wii for a reason, now its time to give them a profit motive. Yahoo! can do the content distrobution, and no, Nintendo can not do that as well as Yahoo!. IBM/Yahoo, just look at the 80s/90s with IBM and how they transformed, that is the key to my point and i have responded in other posts.

mattmaroon 18y ago
Nintendo cannot distribute games as well as Yahoo? That's just crazy talk. Why would Wii customers prefer an in-browser flash game over a non-browser game? How many Wii owners even bought the browser? They'd be infinitely better off just selling all games through the Nintendo Store, which they do now. Maybe allowing people to develop for Flash there would be a great idea. But making them go through the browser and offering part of the profits to Yahoo is not. I don't know what Caja is, but Flickr just doesn't have the revenue to be a big deal for Yahoo. It was a sound acquisition, but it's still a small % of their overall profits. Even if you doubled it without increasing costs at all, it's a long way from mattering. I'm still missing how they have any synergy at all with IBM. IBM doesn't even sell PCs anymore. You want them to integrate Yahoo on voting machines and ATMs or something?

by jdavid 18y ago

mattmaroon 18y ago

Nintendo cannot distribute games as well as Yahoo? That's just crazy talk. Why would Wii customers prefer an in-browser flash game over a non-browser game? How many Wii owners even bought the browser? They'd be infinitely better off just selling all games through the Nintendo Store, which they do now. Maybe allowing people to develop for Flash there would be a great idea. But making them go through the browser and offering part of the profits to Yahoo is not. I don't know what Caja is, but Flickr just doesn't have the revenue to be a big deal for Yahoo. It was a sound acquisition, but it's still a small % of their overall profits. Even if you doubled it without increasing costs at all, it's a long way from mattering. I'm still missing how they have any synergy at all with IBM. IBM doesn't even sell PCs anymore. You want them to integrate Yahoo on voting machines and ATMs or something?