OT: let's get current with what's next for Yahoo post Marissa Mayer?

[PQJ]

Originally Posted by Germany_chris

Which is why they sold for something like $1 above cost, probably still do.

Well, there's also the crap factor associated with them (which makes me laugh at AMZN's rumored forthcoming smartphone).

[tannhauser]

Originally Posted by Germany_chris

Which is why they sold for something like $1 above cost, probably still do.

Exactly.

[eddief]

being interviewed. Second vid on the page Kathy Savitt. A couple of commercials interrupt the vid, but the woman seems sharp re: selling stuff and socail media:

http://leaderswest.com/2012/08/29/ya...spired-choice/

[Germany_chris]

Originally Posted by eddief

being interviewed. Second vid on the page Kathy Savitt. A couple of commercials interrupt the vid, but the woman seems sharp re: selling stuff and socail media:

http://leaderswest.com/2012/08/29/ya...spired-choice/

This interview made me things about myself:

"A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savour of it." -Machiavelli-

I do to much of this, therefore have become this:

"By searching out origins, one becomes a crab. The historian looks backward; eventually he also believes backward” -Nietzsche-

because my belief system is built on this:

"So what if Jesus died on the cross.
So what about the f***er, I don't give a toss.
So what if the master walked on the water.
I don't see him trying to stop the slaughter."

"You're a part our machine because we want you to be.
We've got you now and you'll never be free.
We can even have your body after you're dead.
We can take the eyes out of your ****ing head.
Yes we'll take them out, use them again.
We can do it you know cos we've got your brain.
We'll crucify you like we crucified him.
We'll make you obey our every whim.
We got the power, the power and the glory.
I've heard that before in a different story.
But the story I heard covered up the truth,
Didn't touch on the actual factual proof.
Didn't say about the bodies in the concentration camps,
Didn't say about the (surgeons) knives underneath the lamps,
Doesn't say that the ovens are still warm,
Doesn't say that this wretched little form
Is a human being who wants to live
But not in the snot and **** they give.

They say that I had better keep quiet
Or they're gonna douse my light.
Jesus Christ can save my life,
But I can always use my knife."

Crass

[eddief]

The company may not be doing better, but the stock is up about 80% in less than a year. Yeehaw.

[Louis]

Eddie, maybe it's time for you to buy some Facebook stock.

[eddief]

but always open to good ideas to support the simple lifestyle. 3 bikes, 3 tv's, and a cat.

Originally Posted by Louis

Eddie, maybe it's time for you to buy some Facebook stock.

[oldpotatoe]

Originally Posted by eddief

I know we can all be jokey about her looks, but what is the chance she can turn it around?

Reported $100 million, 5 year compensation package. Yikes, she better be good. I wonder what her severence will be after she doesn't?

[tannhauser]

Originally Posted by oldpotatoe

Reported $100 million, 5 year compensation package. Yikes, she better be good. I wonder what her severence will be after she doesn't?

Enough to put Yahoo that much more into the hole.

[54ny77]

Hey, a Serotta customer!

Any dealers in the bay area should call her up and say hi.

No extra decals though....

Originally Posted by oldpotatoe

Reported $100 million, 5 year compensation package. Yikes, she better be good. I wonder what her severence will be after she doesn't?

[CunegoFan]

I think there is a lot that can be improved. The surprising thing about Yahoo has always been how utterly incompetent the company is.

For example, Yahoo has website hosting for small businesses. They charge for it. The management technology it uses to this day is from about 1995. Everyone else uses something like cPanel, which allows one to blow away an existing site, upload a ZIP containing a new version, and unpack the new site. Yahoo offers simple FTP. Build a site with a structure of sub-directories and you are screwed.

At one time Yahoo had huge traffic to the stock discussion boards. The never did anything to combat the spamming. They should have gone to a Slashdot-style comment rating. Yahoo's email spam protection sucked until GMail came along and forced them to up their game. Their directory could be improved a lot, and they charge three hundred bucks a year for that. Yahoo could have leveraged their paid directory into the type of services that are now provided by other business directories that allow editing of the company's profile, networking, and everything else.

[eddief]

have always been mostly rant and rave and spamorama. Today when I checked out the the message board for Yahoo stock, there was a whole discussion about revamping the boards and a big banner at the bottom of the screen seeking user inputs. A novel idea. Go Marissa. Girl names ending in "a". Like go Danica.

[eddief]

would like to still come out a winner or at least even, and have not seen a better layman's explanation of what the hell Yahoo is trying to do.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonyn...ssing-yourself

[redir]

That made my head hurt.

[fuzzalow]

Thanks for the link. Fascinating stuff and never needed to go that far into the details of US Corp. Tax Code. At least tax code is defined so the trick is to make whatever pegs you've got fit the holes defined in the tax structure to get to the desired result.

And I own YHOO so I am not indifferent about the treatment on the gain but long ago resigned myself to just let it sit and whatever happens to it, happens. I think Ms. Mayer has more pressing concerns than tax structures to occupy her time and effort in steering YHOO. Tax structure is comparatively easy, Corporate competitiveness, even survivability, is not.