Sunday, March 31, 2013
Random thought on Yahoo
Random thought.... Yahoo showed a remarkable talent for creating and losing opportunities. Yahoo had a very good search engine before Google came along. Yahoo had 'Groups' before Facebook came along. Yahoo had 'Briefcase' before Amazon's cloud came along. Yahoo had Flickr before Instagram came along. They had almost everything first, but sat back and watched while other companies picked up the ideas and ran hard.
At one time I was a complete Yahoo customer. I used all of those services, and gladly paid for the Briefcase service, until they arbitrarily halted it with insufficient warning.
The search engine, Flickr, and Groups are still around, but pretty much stopped improving.
If the new wyyyymyyyyn CEO thinks she can fix those problems by keeping everyone in the office where she can watch them pretend to work, she's even dumber than the previous management. And that's some serious dumb.
¶ 1:13 PM 
