Yahoo Newly Reinvigorated
Paul Krugman's piece about "E Empires" linked to a Business Insider article about Marissa Mayer, the "turnaround" CEO of Yahoo.
Riffing about the 14th Century North African historian and philosopher Ibn Khaldun who intuited a rhythm to the rise and fall of dynasties, Krugman says "Marissa Mayer doesn’t look much like a fierce Bedouin chieftain, but she’s arguably filling the same functional role." Well more about Krugman's piece later; now I know how the new Yahoo Email app on my iPad came about - and yes, purple is good. I also tried Yahoo Weather on my iPhone and it is way cool. So when is the last time the ideas of "Yahoo" and "cool" came in the same sentence. Plus we haven't even mentioned Flickr that now provides 1 TB of free photo sharing.
While I'm certainly a Google fan and robust user of Google apps, we as consumers benefit with more competitors and more choices so it is good for all us to see Yahoo start to regain its competitive footing.
Last, kudos to Rob Pegoraro, who himself 'reinvigorated' this conversation when he spoke to the Pi at our July General Meeting.
Riffing about the 14th Century North African historian and philosopher Ibn Khaldun who intuited a rhythm to the rise and fall of dynasties, Krugman says "Marissa Mayer doesn’t look much like a fierce Bedouin chieftain, but she’s arguably filling the same functional role." Well more about Krugman's piece later; now I know how the new Yahoo Email app on my iPad came about - and yes, purple is good. I also tried Yahoo Weather on my iPhone and it is way cool. So when is the last time the ideas of "Yahoo" and "cool" came in the same sentence. Plus we haven't even mentioned Flickr that now provides 1 TB of free photo sharing.
While I'm certainly a Google fan and robust user of Google apps, we as consumers benefit with more competitors and more choices so it is good for all us to see Yahoo start to regain its competitive footing.
Last, kudos to Rob Pegoraro, who himself 'reinvigorated' this conversation when he spoke to the Pi at our July General Meeting.
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