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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.
Who knew?
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.
its like companies want RSS to die or something.
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!
They got taken over by MBA's too after the founders took their money and ran...
Facebook and Twitter are next....
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Google is still run by the founders and early advisors.
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
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
Google seems to push relevant parts of its other stuff into the results, rather than overwhelm with it.
If I search for a place, they show me the map, a news topic, they show me news, etc etc.
They don't push me to news when it's not relevant.
Wow, sent an e-mail as suggested when clicking on "use classic" banner, and got a fast response that addressed my msg
Yahoo held on to Jerry Yang WAY longer than most stockholders or common sense would have dictated. Mostly because he and various people he knows owned/own such a large percentage of the company (if not a controlling share).
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MBA's took over too fast at Yahoo after the founders took their money and ran...
Even a bit worse than that --- after they watched AOL buy Time Warner they wanted to emulate that they hired some Warner Brothers guy as their CEO who didn't know much about the internet. And they never invest in the technologies they have. Consider all the times they aquired the leading company in a space --- only to *not* invest in it and kill it:
And such irony that they *now* descide to focus on Search --- after having bought what was once the best search engine on the internet (AltaVista), yet have since then been paying competitors to do search for them.
Not to mention, that "Pipes" thing actually looks pretty cool... too bad they never marketed it, so I didn't know it existed until after they decided to shut it down!
"[Regarding the 'cloud,'] ownership was what made America different than Russia." -- Woz
But you forgot to add that they refused to pay 1 million for Larry and Sergei's search engine.... which forced them to go on their own and create Google.
How's that for a fscked corporate M&A department?
You sure you aren't describing langoliers rather than MBAs?
There's a difference?
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.