Comments on: Memo to Marissa: Partnering with everyone else is not a winning strategy for Yahoo

By: Pubby

Pubby — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 08:23:13 +0000

Apple partnered with Google to create iPhone, are you out of your mind? Apple created iPhone and used Google’s mapping data for maps and Apple designed and coded the maps app as well as youtube app. If you dont know the facts better shut your mouth.

By: Eljefe

Eljefe — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 17:32:52 +0000

The problem is having an engineer play the role of CEO. CEOs are BUSINESS professionals.

By: Andre

Andre — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 19:09:55 +0000

Sports and Email

By: Pete

Pete — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 18:45:16 +0000

I hope yahoo fixes their main problem I have with them. The services they offer to people like email are subpar. This weekend my iPhone and iPad mini decided that they did not like yahoo email and will not play work anymore. Also, their sync across mobile is poor (when it works). Their apps are ok, but I don’t always want to interact with yahoo the way they want me to. Hope MM can help them. Long on Yahoo!

By: Shakir Razak

Shakir Razak — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 06:17:39 +0000

Hi,

All the current largest web companies got there largely by leveraging API’s, and then later, in some cases, retrenching access, what have Yahoo! got and done?

If anyone who reads this also can get access to MM, can you please tell her to buy WhatsApp – I can’t think of anything else that would give them a footing to even give them an opportunity to regain its previous importance.

There’s other things it could do, share of mind around innovation, mobile, content and global content breadth…..

Yours kindly,

Shakir Razak

By: Chris McCoy

Chris McCoy — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 06:08:59 +0000

Millions of page views. Millions of users. No social network. No platform APIs on core services like sports and Flickr. Seems like Yahoo doesn’t have the people to execute. Or Marissa doesn’t see it. Or she does have the people and she sees it but culture can’t move fast enough to capture the obvious ops.

I want Yahoo to succeed, but for the sake of innovation my advice is to get out of the content business and double down on the platform business.

Power the advertising and CMSs of newspapers. Invent a new mobile OS. Do something bold.

Not sure it’s in the DNA as a public company.

So, I’m out of ideas.

By: dcs

dcs — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 23:34:27 +0000

If that is the best you can do on Yhoo problems, I would worry more about gigaom future than yhoo. Hope Mathew has second job.

By: Gussy2000

Gussy2000 — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:28:09 +0000

Exactly. I’m not your partner. I offer this service or make these things for you and YOU pay ME for either or both of those things. You are not my partner, you are my customer.

By: ronald

ronald — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:27:47 +0000

To rephrase Om from some time ago:
Be careful which platform you’re building on

The platform is more and more becoming data and as Apple with Maps has hopefully learned it ain’t easy. Design and UI don’t count if you don’t understand/own the data you’re building on.

By: John

John — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 19:26:32 +0000

It’s a good start. Apple and Google partnered together to create iPhone and look now 6-7 years later.