Yahoo! and delicious.com

Yahoo! and delicious.com - What's wrong?

On December 5th, I wrote What's wrong with delicious.com and somewhat predicted it's suicidal phase. And, then I have noted relatively high incoming hits on my article. On December 16th, TechCrunch wrote Is Yahoo Shutting Down Del.icio.us?. On December 17th, delicious/Yahoo! responded by clearing all blog posts and wrote What’s Next for Delicious? that confirmed suicidal in the form of sales.

What's wrong with Yahoo!

Yahoo! is in the wrong hands (Think of Apple without Steve Jobs)

Yahoo! is lacking vision. There are many ways to make profit and for the internet services like Yahoo!, the profit may be virtual things--instead of physical

Yahoo! is chasing Google and rivals. When you're the pioneer, people may not leave easily. Many people still use Yahoo! mail. Yahoo! may even raise money through donations like Wikipedia; no one would be bother to donate, if they really like it.

Yahoo! is hiring wrong people. I often used to tell "though skills are trainable, people are not replaceable". Yahoo!'s geocities closure without alleged backup is a stupid move.

Yahoo! is too panic. Knowing own strength is an important perspective in life and may overcome weaknesses through strengths.

Why delicious is a good idea?

It's a very good alternative for robotized search engines like Google (More SEO may spoil Google's power.)

It can be evolved much more than digg and twitter, on it's own.

It can also serve as a password manager and bugmenot killer. See, my post delicious.com as bugmenot.com killer?

What can we do? - Let's build better alternative

Though there are lot of other alternatives, it's better to build a system out of delicious before it's getting suicided [sic].

Raising money may not be an issue; may opt for VC or donations.

Has huge profit potentials (data mining like Facebook can easily be employed and commercialized)

Please make a noise here or there, if you believe it.

Problems with CakePHP - follow-up

Some people have responded including the Datepicker fame Marc Grabanski . So, this follow-up... First of all, I was not ranting nor complaining; I've just blogged/documented my experience. The common problem most of the people pointed out are that it scales for addons.mozilla.com. Those who have accessed their source code can understand that they've done lot of things and also the site is not database-intensive. You should really create a real database-intensive website to understand what I mean. The other point that been pointed out is about open source and community. Lot of people may not be knowing that it's 2 people pushing it and don't want others to be credited . The generic model or dynamic model idea was originally been from grigri and Marcel . It's hard to be called as open source as only few and sycophants are driving it's direction (I'm not talking about svn access) So, here are my humble checklist before you start shouting at me Did you read a

Humble Award - Dr. A.N. Sreevatsan

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Prediction: Expensify will crash through its insane question-based hiring process

I have huge respect for David Barrett for his technical background. But, his company, Expensify is following a modern psychometric test called a question-based hiring process . The company claims to look for candidates with 'Talent, Ambition, and Humility'. The psychometric test was a fad in India about 20-years ago and the companies that followed the hiring approaches are no more and some have changed the approaches to survive. I just thought of blogging my thoughts here to see how Expensify evolves.

Anand Nataraj said…

You got the point Rajesh that Yahoo!! is missing Vision ... There has been huge cries agains the way Carol Bartz is handling things... She is ceasing everything to improve the profits... Not sure if she forgot the support she must have got from Geocities or Del.icio.us...

Personally I've grown levering the power of Yahoo tools and feeling heavy to see Yahoo!! sliding down...

You have done a nice analysis... Keep up the good work...

Dec 23, 2010, 12:09:00 AM

R. Rajesh Jeba Anbiah said…

Thanks Mr.Anand for your kind words and sharing our opinions.

Dec 23, 2010, 11:59:00 PM