I remember all the person years spent moving Flickr (and Delicious and other sites) onto Yahoo usernames. This used to be such an easily profitable business, and now it's a basket case. That's not a dig at the new owners, who are doing a labor of love. Our industry is not healthyhttps://twitter.com/DonMacAskill/status/1024412481022611457 …
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This limitation on viable business size is a weird feeling, like if you were allowed to keep a basil plant on the windowsill, but Monsanto comes and tears out your kitchen garden if you try to plant one. Which, come to think of it, sounds like a Monstanto thing to do
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I'm unhappy about the free money sloshing through tech not because I didn't get my share (Mr. Pinboard eats steak every night, thank you very much), or because it makes the wrong people rich, but because of what it destroys in passing
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Anyway, the takeaway from this thread is that for most of the company's life, the principal economic activity at Yahoo was moving acquired websites onto Yahoo usernames. I watched a lot of good friends die inside!
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Consulting, is one way.
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Would love to see a blog post about this.
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I totally agree! But there seems to be a second wave for the medium size beyond
@flickr e.g.@tumblr,@bergcloud. Who will come for the rescue of@Meetup ?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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