On Yahoo’s Fall From Grace And Other Links

I am always interested in stories about Yahoo! since I worked there during its Internet hey day. Unfortunately, the place is falling apart. The latest I have heard is of a 5% staff cut, combined with employee buyouts and the sunsetting of some pretty major brands like Alta Vista, the first major Internet search engine and Delicious, a bookmark tool I love and use religiously. I also know that Mark Thoma and Brad DeLong use it as well. I am moving to a new service called Diigo. Hopefully, that will go well because I used delicious to bookmark all of my links including the ones in this post over the past 2 years. The whole thing is very sad because Yahoo was a great brand but they went on a media-centric focus that allowed Google to supersede them and then it was all down hill. It was criminal that the board didn’t take the Microsoft offer a few years ago.

Cheers.

Sad for my former employer,

Edward

P.S. Here are the links

Yahoo!

Credit Writedowns

The Usual Fare

Re-Remics

Tech Stuff

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