Why the hell aren't these chuckleheads on Bloomberg where they belong?
"Everyone, including harbormasters and terminal operators" Hard to see a harbormaster with a Bloomberg terminal.
Does the same pathology apply in other commodity markets as well?
Oil Traders May Be the Only Ones Who Want Yahoo to Survive
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#42This article seems to be making a mountain out of a molehill. Just use one of the competing, recordable chat services if Yahoo! Messenger disappears?
Did you read all of the article. There is the problem of not everyone adopting the same chat service. Yahoo messenger works because everyone happens to have adopted it.
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#43Why the hell aren't these chuckleheads on Bloomberg where they belong?
Too expensive. A Bloomberg terminal starts at $24,000. Not using a free IM service like Yahoo's seems like a fiduciary sin.
The financial pain will be many times the cost of a Bloomberg terminal if market participants are unable to provide communications transcripts when regulators come calling.
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#44Why didn't Yahoo focus on further developing businesses around these services (Finance, Fantasy etc.) that people love?
Yahoo has a huge number of services that remained popular with different groups of people well after they should have gone to dot.com hell - yahoo groups,answers, finance etc. I attribute their neglect to poor management and misplaced priorities. Yahoo could have been quora, instagram, pinterest etc. even well after those upstarts arrived on the scene.
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#45This is insane. Why does guy who digs a hole and sell's oil need to care about high tech?!
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#46If Yahoo goes under, perhaps they can open-source pieces of their product line.
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#47Sounds like an opportunity for someone to buy yahoo messenger, make it work the way the oil industry wants it, and sell it to them as an industry specific chat service. No need to bring the rest of Yahoo along for the ride.
you forgot they are running a multi trillion dollar industry on free-as-in-beer software.
I doubt they would pay $5 per user. or even a year flat fee.
and since they will not pay, you will have to run it on ads. And supporting online/mobile offerings (that do not have their requirement of local client/local logs) will always give you more money.
it is a lose/lose situation.
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#48Sounds like an opportunity for someone to buy yahoo messenger, make it work the way the oil industry wants it, and sell it to them as an industry specific chat service. No need to bring the rest of Yahoo along for the ride.
you forgot they are running a multi trillion dollar industry on free-as-in-beer software. I doubt they would pay $5 per user. or even a year flat fee. and since they will not pay, you will have to run it on ads. And supporting online/mobile offerings (that do not have their requirement of local client/local logs) will always give you more money. it is a lose/lose situation.
I'd be willing to bet they'd pay for a seamless transition to a service that lets them keep their username, contact list, has the same UI, and basically works the same way as it did before.
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#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Everyone, including harbormasters and terminal operators" Hard to see a harbormaster with a Bloomberg terminal.
Does the same pathology apply in other commodity markets as well?
My understanding is that it does for anything that comes in bulk by boat. Copper, met coal, etc.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oil industry is extremely high-tech.
Nah, don't you know that the oil industry is just digging holes. Real high-tech is working on hard problems like how to deliver grilled cheese sandwiches
Artisanal, organic, locally sourced, (and optionally) vegan and gluten free grilled cheese sandwiches.