Comments on: Yahoo is Friendless On Wall Street http://gigaom.com/2008/05/05/yahoo-is-friendless-on-wall-street/ Sat, 25 May 2013 01:30:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rednod » Jumping the sticker shark http://gigaom.com/2008/05/05/yahoo-is-friendless-on-wall-street/#comment-200674 Tue, 13 May 2008 12:40:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=13325#comment-200674 [...] But it’s definitely hitting mainstream. At Web2Expo in mid-May, Yahoo was giving out placemats of stickers, rather than individual ones.  Have they jumped the shark? Certainly, this is the challenge of Big Internet — how does one maintain the allure of secrecy, of being “in”, while still achieving the economies of scale that investors anticipated. To me, this sticker placemat is a metaphor for many of the challenges Yahoo faces. [...]

]]> By: michaelportent http://gigaom.com/2008/05/05/yahoo-is-friendless-on-wall-street/#comment-200673 Wed, 07 May 2008 17:07:47 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=13325#comment-200673 @Najeeb: Yahoo might still have functional web apps, but I think whether they’re better than Google’s is highly, highly debatable. Gmail and GTalk are gaining leverage by the minute – I have more friends chatting with me on GTalk than I do (or ever did) on Y! Messenger.

Google Maps is FAR more accurate than Y! Maps. I’ve gotten lost several times using Y! Maps, and I’ve yet to ever been given wrong directions from Google.

Another thing is, Google’s APIs are far easier to develop on for third-parties. That’s why you see YouTube and Google Maps on the iPhone and not Yahoo’s offerings.

]]> By: Грибная косметика http://gigaom.com/2008/05/05/yahoo-is-friendless-on-wall-street/#comment-200672 Tue, 06 May 2008 19:15:47 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=13325#comment-200672 [...] Yahoo is Friendless On Wall Street [...]

]]> By: najeeb http://gigaom.com/2008/05/05/yahoo-is-friendless-on-wall-street/#comment-200671 Tue, 06 May 2008 18:35:25 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=13325#comment-200671 Being bought by MSFT isn’t necessarily the greatest thing for Yhoo share holders – MSFT has been stagnant stock for years and their own product execution hasn’t gone very well in the recent past. I don’t understand Om’s irrational rant against Yhoo. I am a share holder of yhoo and i feel they have a good chance to stick it out on their own. I am an active user of both yahoo and google services – frankly, if google disappears tomorrow, i’d still be functional with yhoo. You can do a search with yhoo and google and see for yourself how much difference there is. For all other features, yahoo does better or equally good than Google, mail, messenger, finance, news, maps..

]]> By: Jose Miguel Cansado http://gigaom.com/2008/05/05/yahoo-is-friendless-on-wall-street/#comment-200670 Tue, 06 May 2008 17:00:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=13325#comment-200670 Why some insist on looking for a partner or Yahoo? Yahoo has more email users than Google, Yahoo messenger more than GTalk, Flikr more than Picasa… Ok Google is much better in ads, and is winning brand recognition compared to Yahoo. But is the war over? Does Pepsi give up because Coke has better share? Aren’t Macs now a real alternative to Windows, even in Windows still commands far far higher market share? Why can’t Yahoo come back on their own? Probably they just need a change in leadership.

A Microsoft-Yahoo wedding only benefits investors and bankers, but not at all the end-user.

http://tech-talk.biz/2008/05/06/microhoo-why-people-love-weddings/

]]> By: James http://gigaom.com/2008/05/05/yahoo-is-friendless-on-wall-street/#comment-200669 Tue, 06 May 2008 11:15:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=13325#comment-200669 But the games not up yet. Jerry Yang has apparently taken a battering from Yahoo investors. I reckon this will all kick off again soon.

]]> By: Yahoo, Dead Man Walking | Venture Chronicles http://gigaom.com/2008/05/05/yahoo-is-friendless-on-wall-street/#comment-200668 Tue, 06 May 2008 02:06:42 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=13325#comment-200668 [...] a chance that the Microsoft acquisition could get done, the investors (me included) are ready to feed Yang and Filo to the wolves and the fact that the stock dropped to a level that is still well above the price when the deal was [...]

]]> By: John http://gigaom.com/2008/05/05/yahoo-is-friendless-on-wall-street/#comment-200667 Mon, 05 May 2008 21:24:29 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=13325#comment-200667 I can’t tell you the last time I actually even went to Yahoo for anything. When I need to find a site, I go to google, when I want to play fake poker, I go to my online poker place, when I want to chat, I turn on aim, when I want to check the classifieds I goto caigslist, and when did I last go to Yahoo? i am not sure.. its been a long time thats for sure.

john

]]> By: Yahoo is Friendless On Wall Street « YaGooSoft http://gigaom.com/2008/05/05/yahoo-is-friendless-on-wall-street/#comment-200666 Mon, 05 May 2008 21:24:20 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=13325#comment-200666 [...] Read More [...]

]]> By: Ben http://gigaom.com/2008/05/05/yahoo-is-friendless-on-wall-street/#comment-200665 Mon, 05 May 2008 20:38:11 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=13325#comment-200665 I’m not certain Yahoo! is friendless (anywhere) – you don’t have the most eyeballs, and not have friends.

The problem is Yahoo’s Wall Street buddies have personal investments in consolidating the advertising industry. They have more money in Microsoft and Google then they have in Yahoo!, and they’re not making as much as they could be as long as the industry remains fragmented.

In other words, they could invest in Yahoo!, but they’re already heavily invested in Yahoo’s competition, and they will complain and shape the market until the landscape fits their views of reality.

They should be wining and dining Yahoo!, not leaving them with the check.

p.s. yes, my first sentence has three negatives :D

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