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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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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