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How Will Yahoo "Monetize" Their Social Networks?
Thomas Hawk writes "One of the most interesting things to come out of Yahoo's earnings call with analysts yesterday was a statement by Yahoo's COO, Daniel L. Rosenweig on Yahoo's plans to 'monetize' their various social network properties. Flickr was mentioned five times on the conference call and their de.lic.io.us property was as well, after neither were mentioned in last quarter's call. Rosenweig characterized these services as being largely unmonetized and talked about leveraging these "assets" and targeting and profiling a large growing registered audience base. It will be interesting to see how some of Yahoo's popular web properties change through the monetization process."
Those will be slathered in ads to the point of being unusable; much like geocities, yahoo groups, etc.
Someone please remind me again why we give a shit about yahoo (apart from email)? They've got to be the most craptastic set of services on the entire internet.
...the fiasco with the Yahoo Message Boards, it will be a resounding fuck up.
They took what was (for those of us *still* following the SCO Group stock scam/FUD campaign/pump and dump fraud) the best venue for discussing the evidence presented by IBM and Novell, the utter and complete lack of any evidence presented by SCOX, and the discovery of even more evidence of Caldera knowing they didn't have shit to go on. Now, it's a mere shadow of what it once was, and it's overrun by worthless trolls and SCOX apologists. What used to be a place where the fantastic researchers would shine their 10 million candlepower spotlights on miserable fat Belgian bastards, inventors with vaporware operating systems, other "inventors" with bad haircuts and no sense of humor, hack wannabe code monkeys suckling at the teat of MSFT largesse, or rhodium miners with a penchant for hallucinogens, it is now just a cold, dank, murky underworld. The place to be for financial discussions is NOT Yahoo Finance. InvestorVillage has filled in quite nicely, BTW. As far as I'm concerned, Yahoo is run by yahoos.
Geocities is so non-functional, unsupported, ad-plastered and over-all unusable that it's the poster child for how horrible the results of an aquisition can go. Seriously, geocities is fucking wretched; you could have (and should have) come up with a better example
Shill.
Their abuse department for 360 is completely useless. At first it wasn't bad, occasionally I had to resubmit one when someone just missed the boat, but lately they've been utterly useless and incompetent. They have profiles of old males which consist of nothing but shots of their penis, and their entire friend list consists of profiles reputedly belonging to 14 and 15 year old girls, and Yahoo can't seem to find their way to removing the obvious adult themed photos even after repeated resubmission, even though its clearly against their ToS (unless that was quietly changed in the last few months to allow that type of thing ot be okay). Having a friends list full of teen girls isn't against the rules, but to me it only compounds the issue of why this 50 year old guy is allowed to keep a dozen pics of his penis on his profile.