Tag: yahoo
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If OpenAI fails, the most likely mode is the Yahoo path: not a dramatic collapse but a slow fade into irrelevance through a thousand mediocre product extensions. ChatGPT becomes a utility everyone uses but nobody pays premium for. Enterprise goes to companies with better compliance stories. The consumer product goes ad-supported. Revenue grows but margins…
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Did I Make a Mistake Selling Del.icio.us to Yahoo? – Plan to never get past slide one: “Any decision was an endless discussion. I remember once, we had to present to a senior vice-president. We had a 105-slide deck prepared, and we didn’t get past the second slide because they ratholed about one fucking slide.…
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Link: Yahoo! dismemberment! begins! as! Oath! offloads! Flickr!
“Yahoo! acquired Flickr in 2005 and planned to fold it into the Yahoo! Photos service. But the Flickr brand proved more resilient and Yahoo! ended up running it until now, albeit with Yahoo! as the preferred authentication provider. The service has remained popular with photographers, but trails the likes of Facebook and Google in terms…
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Link: Women Once Ruled Computers. When Did the Valley Become Brotopia?
“There is another story to tell: that Google’s success had at least as much to do with women like Wojcicki, Sandberg, and—her controversial tenure as CEO of Yahoo! notwithstanding—Mayer. Each of them brought wider skill sets to the company in its earliest days. If subsequent managers at Google understood this lesson, that might have quieted…
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The spook’s cloud, the most boring annotations you’ll ever read, PE goes after EMC’s future
Meta-data Hello again, welcome to #5. This one will be short. Today we have 19 subscribers. It’s starting to smell like real growth hacking up in here! I’d love to hear what you like, dislike, your feedback, etc.: memo@cote.io. See past newsletters in the archives, and, as always, see things as they come at Cote.io…
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Yahoo! ‘won’t screw Tumblr’? Then Tumblr will screw its balance sheet
It’s all true, and yet it seems like a good idea still. More: Yahoo! ‘won’t screw Tumblr’? Then Tumblr will screw its balance sheet
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Yahoo gives Flickr a new face, a new app, and a new business model | Ars Technica
I love it when companies let you pay to stop showing ads: it gives you a good sense for how much each customer (each pair of "eyeballs") is worth. Here, $50/year. More: Yahoo gives Flickr a new face, a new app, and a new business model | Ars Technica
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