Showing posts with label business. Show all posts
Showing posts with label business. Show all posts
Monday, July 23, 2012
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
How Yahoo Killed Flickr
And Lost the Internet. Gizmodo.
On community:
"The milestones for that acquisition were all based around integrating that local event data into Yahoo. Yahoo didn't care about Upcoming's users—the community that created the data. Yahoo's approach turned out to be completely backwards. The value of the the company was determined by the index itself, rather than how the index was built—which is to say, by the community.
It was a stunning failure in vision, and more or less the same thing happened at Flickr. All Yahoo cared about was the database its users had built and tagged. It didn't care about the community that had created it or (more importantly) continuing to grow that community by introducing new features."
Saturday, April 14, 2012
omg OMGPOP!
Great story about Dan Porter, who hired back laid-off employees between the launch of Draw Something and the $210M sale of OMGPOP to Zynga, so they could reap the benefits of the sale.
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