The two companies will also work together to create advertising opportunities that are seamless and enhance the user experience.
"to create advertising opportunities...that enhance the user experience."
Yahoo to Acquire Tumblr
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Re: Yahoo to Acquire Tumblr
#12Don't get it why people are bitchin' about this so much. From what i understand Tumblr was running out of money so there was no other way out for them and their users. So we have option: a) cry about it online all day, make petitions ... and the whole system closes in a couple of months and you end up with nothing OR b) yahoo buys it and the site lives on
People en-mass are often short-sighted, self destructive, and like to feel like victims. I'm sure they would have been perfectly happy with option A.
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#13I don't work for Yahoo, but I must say I would seriously consider working there now with Marissa Mayer at the helm. Mayer appears to be doing everything she can to drag Yahoo back to being relevant, and to me that sounds like an interesting (and potentially rewarding) challenge. I just hope she is looking for innovation from within as well as from acquisitions.
A lot of people feel this way. I feel this way even after having worked at Google. Yahoo is going through an exciting transition and I'm confident it'll be competing with Google once more with Marissa Mayer at the top. Its not going to be quick or easy, this is about the long game.
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#14Maybe this could have been Posterous had they won that battle with Tumblr. Posterous had the superior product early on, but for some reason it never caught on. I wonder how that works, who wins for what reasons. It does not seem to be for product or technology reasons as I think Posterous had Tumblr beat. It's almost luck and magic who picks up the right kind of early users that lead to success. Admittedly it did seem like a bit of an uphill struggle since Tumblr got started a little earlier? Maybe that's it. Tumblr and Posterous were a new kind of microblog platform a couple of years ago, now Tumblr is massive and Posterious is dead.
Another thing that seems interesting to me is that whenever someone exits into an acquisition it's like this space becomes open again for new startups. Someone should make a new microblogging platform that now disrups Tumblr/Yahoo. It's kind of like the dragon Ouroboros, eating its own tail, around here sometimes.
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#15Does anybody here think that this is a good deal for Yahoo?
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#16I don't work for Yahoo, but I must say I would seriously consider working there now with Marissa Mayer at the helm. Mayer appears to be doing everything she can to drag Yahoo back to being relevant, and to me that sounds like an interesting (and potentially rewarding) challenge. I just hope she is looking for innovation from within as well as from acquisitions.
On the contrary i would seriously consider getting another job because i would feel like the management is totally broken.
Yahoo is not going to be relevant again because they bought Tumblr. They cant even make their own product relevant.
I cant even understand why anybody would buy Tumblr 1 billion or more.
Dailymotion would have been a good deal, this service is relevant and people are starting to be willing to pay to watch videos. They could have bought loads of usefull stuff for 1 billion.
To me it just feels like a publicity stunt to make the stock go higher for a few days , but what is the long term strategy ?
At that rate Mayer will be out in 1 year from now.
Re: Yahoo to Acquire Tumblr
#17The two companies will also work together to create advertising opportunities that are seamless and enhance the user experience. A closer look: "to create advertising opportunities...that enhance the user experience." Yahoo, Seriously?
You can argue (half reasonably I think) that a more targeted advert is better for the user...
Re: Yahoo to Acquire Tumblr
#18I do like how this article from yahoo finance has this heading and subheading: Yahoo! to Acquire Tumblr Promises not to screw it up Fair enough. That probably is most people's biggest concern and expectation of what Yahoo will do.
Does yahoo have a good track record of acquiring services and not frakking them up? Not a troll question, I stopped using yahoo in 1999 but for the occasional openid.
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#19It looks that lot of their users don't like that idea: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stop-yahoo-from-buying-tu... Disclosure: I work for iPetitions.
> It looks that lot of their users don't like that idea:
To be more precise, they don't like this:
"Stop Yahoo! from buying Tumblr!! If this happens, the entire interface will be changed, and millions of users will delete their accounts - me being one of them. Please, please, please sign this to stop this!!"
... which isn't the same as Yahoo buying Tumblr. They don't want Yahoo to negatively change Tumblr (there's a difference).
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#20The two companies will also work together to create advertising opportunities that are seamless and enhance the user experience. A closer look: "to create advertising opportunities...that enhance the user experience." Yahoo, Seriously?
It's just PR speak for "we'll look for ways to make money with it that don't suck too much". Don't take PR speak too seriously :)