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How To Blow $US3.5 Billion
6:43AM Ryan Tate | Yahoo finally shuttered Geocities today. Acquired in 1999, Geocities was one of the costliest dot-com duds of of all time: $US3.5 billion for an ugly, cash-bleeding homepage hosting service. And to think Google’s founders were simultaneously begging server funds. More »
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Current Yahoo CEO Isn’t ‘Stupid’ Like Certain Other Yahoo CEOs
2:48AM Ryan Tate | Carol Bartz’s CNBC appearance today was great PR—sharp and personable instead of defensive and sweary—but couldn’t be good for morale back at the office. The Yahoo CEO kept talking about Yahoo f–kups. More »
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Yahoo’s CEO “Wanted To Crawl Into A Hole And Eat Chocolate”
11:40AM Ryan Tate | Carol Bartz’s critics nearly put her into a chocolate-eating funk, the Yahoo CEO wrote in a recent memo. But now is no time for “staring at our navels… Get out of the sugar low.” Maybe with some chocolate! Wait… [AllThingsD]
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Flickr Shuts Down Discussions About Flickr Shutting Things Down
10:35AM Ryan Tate | Flickr deleted a controversial Barack Obama caricature; it nuked thousands of pictures over some comments about Obama. What sort of political expression is allowed on the Yahoo photo-sharing service? Unclear: Flickr decided a conversation on the topic was…not allowed. More »
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Yahoo Learns New Definition Of ‘Safe’
3:14AM Ryan Tate | In September, Yahoo touted Firefox to Internet Explorer users as a “safer” browser. Now it’s doing just the opposite. Funny what an innocent little “search agreement” can do to one’s perception of the world. [TechCrunch] More »
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Flickr Loses A Few Thousand More Pictures With No Recourse
8:54AM Ryan Tate | A Flickr user is complaining loudly that the photo service allowed 3,000+ of his photos to be deleted by a hacker with no warning. Now they’re supposedly gone forever. When will Flickr start making backups? More »
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