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Yahoo Killing Maps, Pipes & More
alphadogg writes: Yahoo is shutting down its mapping service, Pipes and reducing the availability of Yahoo TV and Yahoo Music. The company has decided instead to focus on three major parts of its business: search, communications, and digital content. "We made this decision to better align resources to Yahoo's priorities as our business has evolved since we first launched Yahoo Maps eight years ago," says the company.
To watch Yahoo slowly die because they got out classed by all the upstarts in the market.
Really, they fell prey to the PHB effect before their competitors did. MBA's took over too fast at Yahoo after the founders took their money and ran...
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Who knew?
The company has decided instead to focus on three major parts of its business: search, communications, and digital content.
So that's what Yahoo does. I wondered what was their business besides unreliable email and annoying CEOs.
lucm, indeed.
Yahoo should concentrate on figuring out who will be the last person out of the building, so they can make sure to turn off the lights.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
...reducing the availabilty of TV and Music ...instead focus on digital content
its like companies want RSS to die or something.
My only issue with Yahoo mail is the number of permissions the current Mobile app version wants. If I ever switch phones the Yahoo app goes way, I will not give them more permissions. I already ditched the Yahoo Finance app for privacy reasons. That I can live without since Yahoo Finance now sucks and isn't likely to return. Really Porter Stansbury and his end of the world predictions on the front page of Yahoo finance, meh, get off my lawn*.
*Due to drought conditions visitors will now have to get of my dirt patch.
I use pipes every single day in bash. What are we supposed to do now, redirect everything into a temporary file, like in the early days? That gets cumbersome with many steps, and anyway it is less multi-processor efficient, and CPUs have more than one core these days!
I have two (2) Yahoo! emails that I have paid for since 2002 and they work very well.
I have 17 free Yahoo! email accounts and the ones I never actually even used are good spam magnets and stuff.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
Oh please. Carly Fiorina was a female CEO too, and look at the great job she did at HP.... oh wait. Now it's run by Meg Whitman... hmm, another bad example.
Well, there's also GM, run by Mary Barra... maybe that's not such a great example, considering the ignition switch problem.
Seriously, though, there's a bunch of female CEOs these days, as seen in this list. I can't say, however, that any of these companies are all that great.
Okay, sure, they're in a tough spot. None of us knew they even had maps, their email sucks, and nobody wants to work there because of recently introduced draconian measures.
But that logo tweak Marissa Mayer shepherded to completion is amazing!
#DeleteChrome
Yahoo is [...] reducing the availability of Yahoo TV and Yahoo Music. The company has decided instead to focus on three major parts of its business: search, communications, and digital content.
Okay, TV and Music seem to be "digital content." So they're reducing what they're focusing on?
And if they're reducing, why are they spending what I assume is a ludicrous amount of money on this?
Marissa is to Yahoo as Carly is to HP.
Both couldn't leave anything alone and both failed.
I removed Yahoo news from my bookmarks. When I saw how much overhead was downloaded and how long it took (I'm in a rural area on satellite internet) I just got fed up with it and canned the link.
I have a grandfathered yahoo paid email account but don't use it for anything serious.
When one judges "effectiveness" by the quarterly report, ya get CEOs that will do anything to meet the numbers. Often, at the risk of the long term health of the company.
The company has decided instead to focus on three major parts of its business: search, communications, and digital content.
I'm sure they had something more specific in mind, but "communications" and "digital content" covers just about everything.
I also enjoy tracking stocks on Yahoo portfolios. It was just a slight nick in my chest (as opposed to a stab in the heart) when they replaced the old Gnuplots with the new charts, which have less data. Maybe they were getting screwed by the data provider, and if that's the reason then I can understand that. Anyway, their portfolios and charts remain useful, and I still use them too. It's nice to be able to check stocks you own without logging into a broker, and check stuff you don't own but are thinking about--all in one glance. Unfortunately, there are sometimes errors in things such as dividend yield. You have to take anything beyond the chart and price with a grain of salt.
The problem with Yahoo neglecting and/or killing off all these services is that while one in particular may not be the killer app that makes us stay, collectively there is something for everybody. It could be death by 1000 cuts. Really though, it seems like they're flailing around in the advertising sand-pit just like a lot of other people in the biz. You know, when you flail in a sand-pit it just gets deeper. Yahoo looks worse than others because they've been doing it longer.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?