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Yahoo needs a company like this to address two major issues. First, they lack a social offering. Second, they need to draw in more users, and I imagine Yahoo
by sdoowpilihp 13y ago
Yahoo needs a company like this to address two major issues. First, they lack a social offering. Second, they need to draw in more users, and I imagine Yahoo is hoping to bring over a large user base to their other products via integration with their ecosystem. If Yahoo does acquire tumbler, it will be interesting to see how they choose to integrate it (if they do at all).
- hkmurakami 13y agonot only is the integration interesting, is by far the most challenging and critical thing they have to do with tumblr. in fact, they can't afford to mess this up. iirc there are already new blogging startups that are trying to unseat tumble as the social blogging king.
- nosrac 13y agoBig-time integration would be a huge mistake. Look at how big of a lead on photography Flickr when Yahoo purchased them. After the purchased they were told to focus on integration. Flickr is a shadow of its former self
- eterm 13y agoFor the first time in 6 or 7 years I didn't renew my Flickr sub this year. It's not just that I've grown older, it's that fundamentally Flickr no longer delivers the content and community, and blame for that must lie at Yahoo's door and their failure to innovate with photo.
- aswanson 13y agoBingo. That 'integration' impulse by big companies is the death-knell for a product. Better off to leave a successful product alone.
- Pxtl 13y agoIntegration wasn't the problem. It was the stagnant development in every other front that ruined Flickr.