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I was hopeful when Mayer took over Yahoo that she could turn the company around. However, with each passing day and the Yahoo home page continues to feature irr
by dmfdmf 13y ago
I was hopeful when Mayer took over Yahoo that she could turn the company around. However, with each passing day and the Yahoo home page continues to feature irritating ads with zooming cars and flying coke cans, my hopes are starting to fade.
Putting marketing in charge of journalism is probably a bad move but worse is the poaching of mainstream, old-school talent from the NYT or NBC. If we have learned nothing from the internet it is that interesting, intelligent commentary and opinion does not necessarily originate with the NYT. The trick is to find the untapped talent out there, the writers with a fresh view and who are not committed to the old ways and give them a voice, assuming you want to make Yahoo into a media giant on par with the NYT. But it starts with new voices not repackaged old voices who had a lock on the channels of communication for decades for historical and accidental reasons not merit.
- GregorStocks 13y agoI'm not convinced that the sort of people who read Yahoo! News would rather read hip young up-and-coming journalists than New York Times veterans.
- kmfrk 13y agoEven worse, I fear what this means for the future of Tumblr. Flickr I've pretty much already given up on; the UX is just about as awful as before, if not more so. I also want to ask who the hell signed off on this: http://www.yahoo.com/tech http://www.yahoo.com/tech. It looks like a content farm, honestly.
- a3n 13y agoThe future of flickr, tumblr etc probably look something like pinboard, which capitalized on Yahoo's Delicious fiasco. I love my pinboard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinboard_%28website%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinboard_%28website%29 Google invents really cool products, and then kills them. Yahoo buys really cool products, and then starves them.
- kmfrk 13y agoOh yeah, I jumped ship from Opera sync to Pinboard a while ago, but I have yet to move all my Chrome and Opera bookmarks.
- 001sky 13y agoworse is the poaching of mainstream, old-school talent To read these resumes, you get the sense that Yahoo cannot hire someone who has a creative background outside of a BigCo. That may very well make sense, but it signals that the tools for success are not great product skills, talent, and vision...but rather the toolset's to deal with politics, beuracracy, and the myriad "grease the wheel" problems that are inherent to an ossified corporation.
- majani 13y ago"with each passing day and the Yahoo home page continues to feature irritating ads with zooming cars and flying coke cans" Seems like the ads are working to me.