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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.
They didn't screw up Flickr. Then again, they didn't do anything with Flickr.
It 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…
It 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.
I like how reactionary that is, much like when people expected Instagram to suddenly gain pokes and sidebar ads when Facebook bought them. It may as well say 'WE DON'T LIKE CHANGE'.
It's funny how when there's news of a company acquiring another people think straight away that it'll change drastically and overnight, making the huge assumption that the company is A) going to change anything B) doesn't know that changing something will break trust with users making their billion dollar purchase useless.
Or maybe Yahoo will change things on tumblr who knows? I'd like Yahoo to add a feature to change your primary blog on tumblr. That would be nice to have..
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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.
They didn't screw up Flickr. Then again, they didn't do anything with Flickr.
Does anybody here think that this is a good deal for Yahoo?
Maybe 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 see…
Porn. Tumblr has porn. As always, when two technologies are battling, the one porn picks will win.
I 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.
Maybe 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 see…
Tumblr is not a blogging platform, it is a social network. Tumblr revolves around the dashboard, it's much more Twitter than it is Wordpress.
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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.
I don't think its fair to compare Yahoo! under different CEO. They all had different goals and roadmap. The current Yahoo seems to be going towards another direction than its immediate predecessors.