PUBLIC MARKS with tag yahoo

I thought I was giving them a shield, but turns out I gave them a missile with my name permanently engraved on it. I was naive.

But now the Senior Vice President for Bad Decisions at Yahoo had decided to give us a little help.

The page dedicated to popular bookmarks (delicious/popular), which is one of the most visited pages on the famous social bookmarking service that counts something like 66 million monthly pageviews, is continuously flooded with spam and in the headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, no one seems to notice it.…Delicious is a dead man walking waiting for someone to put an end to his agony

I left Yahoo over two years ago, but prior to that I spent three years running product for Delicious.

Why did the web services group at Yahoo fail after acquiring Flickr, Delicious, Upcoming, MyBlogLog and others?These acquisions were supposed to re-vitalize Yahoo. Lots of smart people and a solid acquisition streak. Why did it end up having such little impact?

the Yahoo layoffs included the entire Delicious team.

Opera: Refer to the Q4 2009 GBS update for a discussion of the decision to move Opera to X-Grade. Worth noting here is that YUI specifically and Yahoo more broadly continue to support Opera — just as we continue to support X-Grade browsers in general. The GBS provides guidance for formulating QA testing matrices, and our recommendation as of Q1 2010 is that Opera be grouped in the X-Grade along with other high-quality, low-marketshare browsers. Opera is an excellent browser — we expect Opera users to have a good experience on Yahoo! sites and YUI-based sites, and we’ll continue to investigate bugs related to Opera as they are identified.