Yahoo - II
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Why Yahoo failed to compete with Google, Facebook - The Economic Times
SAN FRANCISCO: Yahoo has been one of the most-visited sites on the Internet since its glory days as a Web portal. Yet as the rest of the Internet moved on to social networks and mobile devices, Yahoo has failed to keep up. That became painfully clear on Tuesday when Yahoo's board abruptly fired its chief executive, Carol A. Bartz. She focused on bolstering Yahoo's online media and original reporting, but neglected to develop the new social networking tools, video services or mobile apps that people now prefer to use.For a couple of days now, we’ve been hearing rumors that the Yahoo layoffs included the entire Delicious team. Now Former Yahoo employee and Upcoming founder Andy Baio has tweeted out the above Yahoo! product team meeting slide that seems to show that Yahoo! is either closing or merging the social bookmarking service as well as Upcoming, Fire Eagle, MyBlogLog and others.
Is Yahoo Shutting Down Del.icio.us?
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It has been fairly amazing to watch this Yahoo “sunsetting” news over the past 48 hours. It seemed to go from a bad leak, to huge backlash, to PR disaster, to confusion, to worse PR disaster. Now Yahoo, by way of Delicious (the most prominent service being “sunset”), has responded by lashing out at all the press for the coverage of the fiasco. Danny Sullivan just did a great job of ripping them a new one for this nonsense misdirection.
Updates at foot of post There’s a screenshot floating round twitter, the one below. Assuming it is what it looks like, a screenshot from an online event that we weren’t invited to (possibly press, maybe internal), indicating a massive clean up from Yahoo. The screenshot was posted by Yahoo-acquired MyBlogLog co-founder Eric Marcoullier – now co-founder of OneTrueFan. It shows the effective closure of Delicious, mybloglog and more. Or possibly, rather than conversion, “transformation” into Yahoo branded products not unlike Yahoo Finance, Mail etc.
Looks like Yahoo’s About to Have a Massive Clean Up
