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mad.radhu
Jan 8, 2006




Fun Shoe

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ahmeni
May 1, 2005

It's one continuous form where hardware and software function in perfect unison, creating a new generation of iPhone that's better by any measure.
Grimey Drawer

Silver Alicorn posted:

I don't know what I would do without flickr

it's their only actual monetised service with a user base and a brand people give a gently caress about

it must be destroyed

vodkat
Jun 30, 2012



cannot legally be sold as vodka

ahmeni posted:

it's their only actual monetised service with a user base and a brand people give a gently caress about

it must be destroyed

sounds about right

treasure bear
Dec 10, 2012

nooo. how are people going to do the make an album game now

NoneMoreNegative
Jul 20, 2000
GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN
MASTER




shit wizard dad

ahmeni posted:

it's their only actual monetised service with a user base and a brand people give a gently caress about

it must be destroyed

fucks sake I'm going to have to do actual work and make a proper website for my shaky titty pix.

graph
Nov 22, 2006

aaag peanuts

craisins posted:

yahoo fantasy sports are the best on the internet. every other site sucks

the ff ipad app is real good too

eric
Apr 27, 2004
Lipstick Apathy
company dead, so what?

Catalyst-proof
May 11, 2011

better waste some time with you
dickr

Share Bear
Apr 27, 2004

ahmeni posted:

it's their only actual monetised service with a user base and a brand people give a gently caress about

it must be destroyed

they cancelled the monetized service awhile ago, i had a paid account that was ad free and very effectively archived a good chunk of my life in the 2000s

unless they added paid accounts back

Share Bear
Apr 27, 2004

lmao they got rid of flickr pro then added it back

what a bunch of maroons

removal news: http://mashable.com/2013/05/20/flickr-pro-changes/#vP0hab5BeEq9
today: https://www.flickr.com/account/upgrade/pro

edit: i now realize that this was a marketing error and they probably never really got rid of pro, but they sure made it seem like it was going away

Michael Transactions
Nov 11, 2013

this reminds of me deck chairs on the titanic, moving the deck chairs on the titanic i mean. as in, doing something pointless because the big ship Titanic is going to sink anyway so what's the point

SO DEMANDING
Dec 27, 2003

from the tech bubble thread :eyepoop:

lancemantis posted:

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/02/yahoo-sued-over-employee-rankings-anti-male-discrimination/

comedy from so many angles; stack ranking, questionably legal layoff procedures, women in my workplace :qq:

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
if the band keeps playing the ship can't sink

qirex
Feb 15, 2001


quote:

On the opening pages of the thick tome — with a hip design, much font action, a whole lot of bold colors and a vague tone of forced fun — its goal was explicitly stated: “This book is a guide.”

I was happy to finally get my hands on one. “You don’t have the book?” joked one departed staffer to me. “You really need to see the book.”

I really did. And so do you.

quote:

Commissioned by Mayer in a project run by her chief of staff Andrew Schulte and produced by Addison Publishing, it cost about $1 million, said sources. Books like this are not uncommon in Silicon Valley, most often made to be given to new employees as part of the onboarding process at hiring.

quote:

In this case, Mayer seems to have had a different goal, in what appears to be a splashy analog attempt to boost morale. But, more than anything, it is also an insight into her thinking, displaying a mix of stubborn defiance and aggressive cheeriness strewn with the kind of you-can-do-it bromides you might find at a Tony Robbins seminar.

“Our hope is that it will give everyone a shared sense of the amazing company that we work for and the incredible opportunities within our reach,” read some text. “Let’s do this.”

More here, I guess paraphrasing some pop-business books is what makes you $40 million

poty
Jun 21, 2008

虹はどこで終わるのですか? あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?
im starting to get this uncomfortable feeling that marissa isnt gonna be the next steve superstar ceo

The_Franz
Aug 8, 2003



maybe i was living under a rock but i don't ever remember a time when yahoo kicked rear end

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

The_Franz posted:



maybe i was living under a rock but i don't ever remember a time when yahoo kicked rear end

it's like when you talk to people who worked at netscape and they're like "we did some amazing work" and it's like no you didn't, they released the worst and second worst web browsers of all time then drowned in technical debt and tried to make a mail server for several years while microsoft ate their lunch and only after half a dozen false starts did they manage to spin off a moderately successful open source project that turned into an ok browser 10 years later

qirex fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Feb 2, 2016

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



remember when yahoo probably paid to have the yahoo yodel be in the inspector gadget film, but the context was the billboard falling over

kind of prescient

Space-Pope
Aug 13, 2003

by zen death robot
rip yahoo groups

the best place to find the weirdest porn

skeevy achievements
Feb 25, 2008

by merry exmarx
time to dust off those glass cliff tweets

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


triple sulk posted:

remember when yahoo probably paid to have the yahoo yodel be in the inspector gadget film, but the context was the billboard falling over

kind of prescient

That movie was filmed in Pittsburgh.

JewKiller 3000
Nov 28, 2006

by Lowtax

Citizen Tayne posted:

That movie was filmed in Pittsburgh.

no wonder it sucked

Phoenixan
Jan 16, 2010

Just Keep Cool-idge

Space-Pope posted:

rip yahoo groups

the best place to find the weirdest porn
lol i remember that

Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud
Apr 7, 2003


JewKiller 3000 posted:

no wonder it sucked

It was good. Bitch.

Mr. Apollo
Nov 8, 2000

:siren:yahoo announces it is exploring strategic alternatives:siren:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/yahoo-plans-to-say-it-is-exploring-strategic-options-1454444977

quote:

Yahoo Plans to Say It Is Exploring Strategic Options
Such comments would be strongest indication yet that Yahoo is considering a sale

Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday plans to announce it is exploring “strategic alternatives” for its struggling Internet business, people familiar with the matter said.

The announcement, which is expected to come along with a fourth-quarter earnings report after the market close, would be the strongest indication that Yahoo’s board is considering a sale of all or part of its Web properties.

Executives at Verizon Communications Inc. have publicly expressed interest in buying Yahoo, and others, including firm private-equity firm TPG Capital, have considered bidding for parts or all of the Web business, according to people familiar with the matter.

In December, Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer and Chairman Maynard Webb said in an interview that a sale isn’t the most likely outcome. But Mr. Webb said then that the board has a fiduciary duty to entertain any offers.

Mr. Apollo fucked around with this message at 21:51 on Feb 2, 2016

treasure bear
Dec 10, 2012

tumor looking batty posted:

this reminds of me deck chairs on the titanic, moving the deck chairs on the titanic i mean. as in, doing something pointless because the big ship Titanic is going to sink anyway so what's the point

moving the deck chairs on th e titanic maybe cleared the way for people and saved lives... i will never forget those deckchaires

maniacdevnull
Apr 18, 2007

FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

Wait, is this about a poorly-grounded wearable or the company going under?

qirex
Feb 15, 2001

As many as 30 employees were said to have been let go in conversations with their supervisors, only to be told later that they were simply on a shortlist, the New York Post reported.

“They put people on firing lists who they didn’t mean to—people who were lower on the performance scale but who weren’t meant to get fired,” an insider told The Post. “But no one told the managers, and then they had the conversations, and it was like, ‘Oops.’ ”

ahmeni
May 1, 2005

It's one continuous form where hardware and software function in perfect unison, creating a new generation of iPhone that's better by any measure.
Grimey Drawer

qirex posted:

As many as 30 employees were said to have been let go in conversations with their supervisors, only to be told later that they were simply on a shortlist, the New York Post reported.

“They put people on firing lists who they didn’t mean to—people who were lower on the performance scale but who weren’t meant to get fired,” an insider told The Post. “But no one told the managers, and then they had the conversations, and it was like, ‘Oops.’ ”

:smithcloud:

pram
Jun 10, 2001
i am excite for yahoo death

pram
Jun 10, 2001

qirex posted:








More here, I guess paraphrasing some pop-business books is what makes you $40 million

lmfao

triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



maniacdevnull posted:

Wait, is this about a poorly-grounded wearable or the company going under?

yes

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl

poty posted:

its me im the guy who bought yahoo stock more or less a year ago. my other candidate was amazon. lets see how that would have turned out



hmmmmm

horns.aiff

Beeftweeter
Jun 28, 2005

OFFICIAL #1 GNOME FAN
"The company's outlook is 'absolute poo poo', according to people familiar with the fecal matter."

Farmer Crack-Ass
Jan 2, 2001

this is me posting irl

triple sulk posted:

remember when yahoo probably paid to have the yahoo yodel be in the inspector gadget film, but the context was the billboard falling over

kind of prescient

lol i forgot that, much like the rest of that movie


but to be fair the original cartoon doesn't hold up very well anyway. oh ha ha an oblivious dolt wanders around stumbling into poo poo while his kid and dog solve poo poo. go-go-gadget gimmick! :buddy:

catchy tune though.

Optimus_Rhyme
Apr 15, 2007

are you that mainframe hacker guy?

How can you run yahoo in to the ground? They actually have successful products:

- News (super popular)
- Entertainment News
- Yahoo Messenger (outside of the US)
- Yahoo Mail
- Flickr
- Tumblr
- Fantasy Sports
- Groups
- Answers

But then again they have a poo poo TONNE of bad products and terrible management

I hope they get taken over and they spit up and sell off a bunch of assets, like mail/chat to google, etc

Moo Cowabunga
Jun 15, 2009

[Office Worker.




Silver Alicorn posted:

I don't know what I would do without flickr

akadajet
Sep 14, 2003

Optimus_Rhyme posted:

terrible management

Silver Alicorn
Mar 30, 2008

𝓪 𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓹𝓪𝓷𝓭𝓪 𝓲𝓼 𝓪 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓲𝓸𝓾𝓼 𝓼𝓸𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓾𝓻𝓮
I need pictures of animals, to survive

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pram
Jun 10, 2001
same but shitposting

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