Yahoo has been trying to mine gold from their copper mine for the last ten years. They need to make better use of their assets, reorient their engineering staf

Yahoo has been trying to mine gold from their copper mine for the last ten years. They need to make better use of their assets, reorient their engineering staff towards business, embrace OSS (they used to leverage the hell out of OSS, now it seems like they prefer NIH), and divest themselves of search. Their data APIs are the best around (better than Google's by a mile), the amount of content they produce is stellar, and it's clear that they have smart people working there. They just need structure and direction.