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Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses

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Re: Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses

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Post by mattlutze »

coldtea wrote: post #48
mattlutze wrote: post #30

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As a sidebar, I've always kinda felt the name gets in the way. Yahoo! I feel silly saying it. I feel silly asking someone if they Yahoo!? It feels silly seeing it on stock tickers. Do I want to invest in a silly business? Work for a silly business? The answers are yes and yes in an objective world, if the company is producing interesting products that are selling. But when it comes to marketing to users, investors an…

> Yahoo! I feel silly saying it. I feel silly asking someone if they Yahoo!? Yeah, nothing like the gravitas and seriousness of Google.

It doesn't need gravitas. But the onomatopoeic and just-slightly-this-side-from-awkward feeling of it has always bugged me a little.

Re: Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses

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Post by username223 »

When Yahoo finally dies, my main concern is what happens to the @yahoo.com email address I've had for a couple of decades, and which now lives next to my name in countless address books. Does it perpetually forward to an address I choose? Does Yahoo try to charge for this? Do Russian identity thieves buy the domain and make my life hell?

Re: Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses

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Post by ghaff »

pmlnr wrote: post #73
ghaff wrote: post #64

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Hard to say. There isn't a lot of direct competition. Smugmug probably comes closest (and I see their current pricing structure again makes it reasonable for non-professionals which it wasn't for a time). It really depends on how many people pay for a premium ("pro") flickr account which Yahoo seems to have been fairly ambivalent about collecting over the past few years. Personally, I'd find it something of a bummer…

I've been running my own site for displaying images; for backup, I have a dedicated server + synthing. It's the archives I'd really, really miss, from people who more or less stopped taking photos. If Flickr was to offer what Smugmug and 500px does for pros ( like direct upload from Lightroom, eyecandy portfolios, etc. ) instead of focusing on an app that uploads every picture it finds by default, I believe they'd se…

You can upload directly from Lightroom using something like jfriedl's plug-in. Works great.

I agree that galleries of some sort would be a great addition. I put a lot of photos up on flickr so they're available to myself and others. But I'd like the ability to showcase a more curated collection.

Re: Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses

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Post by DannoHung »

pmlnr wrote: post #73
ghaff wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hard to say. There isn't a lot of direct competition. Smugmug probably comes closest (and I see their current pricing structure again makes it reasonable for non-professionals which it wasn't for a time). It really depends on how many people pay for a premium ("pro") flickr account which Yahoo seems to have been fairly ambivalent about collecting over the past few years. Personally, I'd find it something of a bummer…

I've been running my own site for displaying images; for backup, I have a dedicated server + synthing. It's the archives I'd really, really miss, from people who more or less stopped taking photos. If Flickr was to offer what Smugmug and 500px does for pros ( like direct upload from Lightroom, eyecandy portfolios, etc. ) instead of focusing on an app that uploads every picture it finds by default, I believe they'd se…

Flickr has direct upload from Lightroom...

Actually, I think that's built in to Lightroom.

Re: Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses

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Post by [deleted] »

FussyZeus wrote: post #57
coldtea wrote: post #51

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> Oh just give this poor old dog the old Yeller treatment already. I don't know what's more sad, the fact that Yahoo has fallen from where it once was, or that it's falling so slowly and that it's new CEO, once thought to be it's saving grace, is letting the bleeding continue for seemingly as long as she possibly can. And why not? In what kind of reasoning, if you could continue to make money and employee thousands o…

I guess it makes sense to get all the jewelry and dresses off the Titanic while the bow is still above water, personally I'd sell the business while it's still worth something and move on to bigger and better things. Anyway, I'm thinking more from the perspective of the grunt workers than the big execs who will walk away rich no matter what. If I was them I'd be looking for the lifeboats and getting the hell out.

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Re: Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses

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Post by voltagex_ »

pmlnr wrote: post #60
voltagex_ wrote: post #24

Again I ask, where should I take ~30GB of photos that I have on Flickr? Yes, I have other backups but I need offsite storage. Guess I'll have to budget for it now. Backblaze B2 isn't quite ready yet.

Serious answer: digitalocean gives you a 40GB VPS for 20$/m and you can spin up an Owncloud instance in minutes.

Ouch, that reminds me how much more my VPS is going to cost due to the decline in the Australian dollar. It's not a bad idea, though.

Re: Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses

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Post by BinaryIdiot »

FussyZeus wrote: post #57
coldtea wrote: post #51

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> Oh just give this poor old dog the old Yeller treatment already. I don't know what's more sad, the fact that Yahoo has fallen from where it once was, or that it's falling so slowly and that it's new CEO, once thought to be it's saving grace, is letting the bleeding continue for seemingly as long as she possibly can. And why not? In what kind of reasoning, if you could continue to make money and employee thousands o…

I guess it makes sense to get all the jewelry and dresses off the Titanic while the bow is still above water, personally I'd sell the business while it's still worth something and move on to bigger and better things. Anyway, I'm thinking more from the perspective of the grunt workers than the big execs who will walk away rich no matter what. If I was them I'd be looking for the lifeboats and getting the hell out.

> personally I'd sell the business while it's still worth something and move on to bigger and better things.

They're likely trying to do that and spinning off Japan may make that easier.

Re: Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses

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Post by drgath »

username223 wrote: post #82

When Yahoo finally dies, my main concern is what happens to the @yahoo.com email address I've had for a couple of decades, and which now lives next to my name in countless address books. Does it perpetually forward to an address I choose? Does Yahoo try to charge for this? Do Russian identity thieves buy the domain and make my life hell?

Entirely dependent on who decides to buy Y! Mail. Safe to assume it'll be around for a while though, since straight killing Y! Mail doesn't make much business sense.
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