"Then I'll buy Steve Jobs and have him do all the CEO stuff for me..."
Dear Yahoo, hire me as your next CEO
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Re: Dear Yahoo, hire me as your next CEO
#32Yahoo's past notable problems which are usually mentioend are that they had competiting divisions of the same company. They had Geocities and Yahoo webhosting. They had Flickr and Yahoo Photos. --- Their current problem is poor execution. They've wanted to go into social media for a long time, and failed in many efforts. Years ago Yahoo Profiles existed with explicit tie in with Yahoo Messenger. Then Facebook came on…
I question : Had Photos (flickr), saw mobile coming up, why didn't do anything cool? (instagram, picplz, colors)
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#33The "media companies" usually have long-chain hierarchy of managers who milk and try to control the cow for variety of reasons.
Re: Dear Yahoo, hire me as your next CEO
#34Is him serious? He doesn't have experience running Big Companies, and his plan is just buying other start-ups and integrating them in Yahoo.
It's like he wants to solve problems by throwing money at them. If this works, then the previous CEO would have probably done the same and the start-ups he mentioned would have already been acquired by some Big Names.
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#35Yahoo's past notable problems which are usually mentioend are that they had competiting divisions of the same company. They had Geocities and Yahoo webhosting. They had Flickr and Yahoo Photos. --- Their current problem is poor execution. They've wanted to go into social media for a long time, and failed in many efforts. Years ago Yahoo Profiles existed with explicit tie in with Yahoo Messenger. Then Facebook came on…
I worked on Profiles and Pulse so here are some answers.
1. Roadmaps. It wasn't high on Flickr's roadmap. Profiles integration provided little to no value to them. Plus the way Yahoo! works it would have taken months just to figure out what an "integration" meant. It was talked about (several times).
2. Probably similar reasons as above. This wasn't really talked about. Delicious was kind of a red headed step child internally. Not sure many execs realized it's value - hence the dwindling of the team and eventual selloff.
3. Roadmaps. Yahoo Groups! is huge and understaffed. Even if both sides wanted to do an integration it would take months to decide what that would look like. Given the rate of attrition the people involved might not even be around long enough to see it through.
Interesting blog post but Yahoo!s problems run real deep. You almost have to gut the company to salvage it. Makes me sad :(.
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#36Looks like this guy is looking for a job at Yahoo and decided to augment his resume with this in hopes of impressing someone over there.
Doesn't look like he's even remotely qualified to be CEO of a startup, let alone a $20B publicly traded corporation. Never mind the 'strategy' he outlines, which sounds like something out of a Starbucks brainstorming session.
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#37I've always been struck by the juxtaposition of Yahoo's commercial efforts and their developer-friendly efforts. YUI was kickass (until jQuery came along). YSlow is the benchmark for measuring site performance, smushit etc. etc. their developers have contributed so much. Just doesn't seem to be parlayed into greater commercial success.
The only valuable asset Yahoo! has doesn't call the shots. Amazing technology and engineers stifled by poor product folks and clueless executives.
Re: Dear Yahoo, hire me as your next CEO
#38Yahoo's past notable problems which are usually mentioend are that they had competiting divisions of the same company. They had Geocities and Yahoo webhosting. They had Flickr and Yahoo Photos. --- Their current problem is poor execution. They've wanted to go into social media for a long time, and failed in many efforts. Years ago Yahoo Profiles existed with explicit tie in with Yahoo Messenger. Then Facebook came on…
I worked on Profiles and Pulse so here are some answers. 1. Roadmaps. It wasn't high on Flickr's roadmap. Profiles integration provided little to no value to them. Plus the way Yahoo! works it would have taken months just to figure out what an "integration" meant. It was talked about (several times). 2. Probably similar reasons as above. This wasn't really talked about. Delicious was kind of a red headed step child i…
YQL goes a little way in this direction, but I think all yahoo products should have a public API.
Then we can have mashups created by the public, and then Yahoo can pick and choose.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
I worked on Profiles and Pulse so here are some answers. 1. Roadmaps. It wasn't high on Flickr's roadmap. Profiles integration provided little to no value to them. Plus the way Yahoo! works it would have taken months just to figure out what an "integration" meant. It was talked about (several times). 2. Probably similar reasons as above. This wasn't really talked about. Delicious was kind of a red headed step child i…
YQL goes a little way in this direction, but I think all yahoo products should have a public API. Then we can have mashups created by the public, and then Yahoo can pick and choose.
I always said that YQL is the most underutilized technology at Yahoo! (internally and externally). It has/had the potential to do what it claimed, select * from internet;.
Re: Dear Yahoo, hire me as your next CEO
#40I've always been struck by the juxtaposition of Yahoo's commercial efforts and their developer-friendly efforts. YUI was kickass (until jQuery came along). YSlow is the benchmark for measuring site performance, smushit etc. etc. their developers have contributed so much. Just doesn't seem to be parlayed into greater commercial success.
The only valuable asset Yahoo! has doesn't call the shots. Amazing technology and engineers stifled by poor product folks and clueless executives.
I wish I could upvote this a million times.