Am I the only one who is not surprised Yahoo! bought it? I'd be surprised if Google, Apple, Adobe, Microsoft or some other respected company did it.
I mean who really uses Yahoo! these days anyway? The only good thing that they still have to offer is YUI (most notable is its compressor). I don't want to sound like a Google supremacist (although I might be guilty of it), but Google offers a better search engine, a better mail service (people use yahoo mail only for traditional reasons). To me this just feels like Yahoo! wants to join the "we <funded|bought> this awesome <product|service|project> created by this <16...22> old."
(I hope) Other companies did it because it improved their service. Yahoo did it so it would be talked about.
I could be wrong, and $30 mil. might be a lot for an attention whoring attempt (let me just point out that it's successful so far), but what else do they have to do with the money they acquired with their past success.
Summly version: Yahoo! bought us in an attempt to save its stale ass from Oblivion.
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I mean who really uses Yahoo! these days anyway? The only good thing that they still have to offer is YUI (most notable is its compressor). I don't want to sound like a Google supremacist (although I might be guilty of it), but Google offers a better search engine, a better mail service (people use yahoo mail only for traditional reasons). To me this just feels like Yahoo! wants to join the "we <funded|bought> this awesome <product|service|project> created by this <16...22> old."
(I hope) Other companies did it because it improved their service. Yahoo did it so it would be talked about.
I could be wrong, and $30 mil. might be a lot for an attention whoring attempt (let me just point out that it's successful so far), but what else do they have to do with the money they acquired with their past success.
Summly version: Yahoo! bought us in an attempt to save its stale ass from Oblivion.
[If anyone is reading this, they are probably in the gutter (down vote) section of the thread... Welcome to the dark side, we lied about the cookies.]