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Letter From Carol Bartz To Yahoo Employees

by Jason Wilk on January 25, 2009

  • Is Bartz off to a god start? She sounds pretty excited to be there, yet is already dealing with potential quote leaks to the press from subordinates. As with any management change, there is going to be some disgruntled employees who will see to it that she’s unsuccessful (especially since there are still employees at Yahoo who have not left yet after being fired from Yang). Nice or not, there’s no stopping earnings from coming out this Tuesday. 

From: Carol Bartz
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 3:12 PM
To: all-worldwide@yahoo-inc.com
Subject: My First Friday

It’s Friday! Wow, this week has gone fast. I thought I’d give you a quick idea of how things went for me this week. First, a BIG thank you for all the positive comments you’ve sent my way. It has really made me feel welcome. And a special big thanks to all the guys (that’d be Willie, Anthony, Jack, Allen, Daryl, Nathan, Ali, etc.) that worked so quickly to get Judy and I up and running. I know I told you at the all-hands that I was going to be bringing my lunch. That was before I saw the cafeteria, it rocks! Forget that leftover stuff!
 My first impression of the Yahoos is that you guys are smart and dedicated, and have a lot of great energy with a can-do attitude (ok, maybe there’s some sucking up because I’m the boss, but it impressed the heck out of me). I wasn’t too happy to see some “inside sources” quoting my all-hands comments to the outside press–STOP IT! And while we’re on the subject of all-hands, I cancelled the regularly scheduled after-earnings meeting simply because it’s just too close to the one we just had. Don’t take it as something it’s not.I’m pumped up and proud to be here. I’m going to spend my weekend shopping for something purple (great excuse for a little retail therapy)…Carol

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Why Microsoft’s Solution To Beat Google Is Yahoo And Kumo

by Jason Wilk on November 25, 2008

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  • Market share results in the search game came in yesterday.
  • Google’s growth rate slowed in October to 29.9 percent, while Yahoo’s and Microsoft’s came off the flat line.
  • Yahoo’ s U.S. search volume grew 7.7 percent (up 0.6) and Microsoft’s grew 4.2 percent (up 1.2).
  • Together they still only account for 29 percent of U.S. search market share, but what if Microsoft’s secret Kumo project were to be the project that would result out of a Yahoo acquisition).
  • Keep LiveSearch as a CashBack incentive search program and continue to increase lead generation money for shopping and travel destinations. Let Yahoo operate it’s search homepage and powerful content properties. Launch Kumo as a Google search competitor, sell ads across all three destinations, increase market share with another brand and slowly creep up on Google. Launch Kumo with LiveOffice products, better mail, and many Yahoo BOSS API elements. I’m not saying this will 100% work, I’m saying if I were doing business development for Microsoft, I would be pushing hard for this to happen.

TC

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QikCom Takes On Yammer With Some Features

by Jason Wilk on October 9, 2008

  • Enterprise Twitter seems to be the hot new non-profit to create this year. (Yammer, Present.ly,  QikCom)
  • Each one asks the question “What are you working on?” to employees who can update colleagues, bosses, etc.  in 140-character bursts.
  • Enter QikCom, they are taking on this market with an added features set in hopes to lure businesses into trying them out.
  • QikCom has a ‘Tab Store’ (similar to Apple’s app store) that lets developers add in custom additions to the update service.
  • Currently there are three tabs for the launch: A To-Do list manager, a place to keep frequent numbers used across a company, and a competition tab (this provides a feed of competing company info)
  • King Benioff sparked the hype around this enterprise feature at the TechCrunch 50, and since we have seen a lot of moves made to own this space. Most notably Cisco’s move to buy the underlying Jabber technology that all these services use for IM updates.

My problem with these services is enterprise is too tough to break into, and providing a product that large enterprise software corps could bang out in a weekend with immediate distribution capabilities (Oracle, SalesForce, etc) seems very threatening.

TC

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SearchMe.com Has Nothing To Worry Aboout From Yahoo’s New BOSS Promotion

by Jason Wilk on October 6, 2008

  • SearchMe.com, best knows for its iTunes ‘CoverFlow’ interface to engage in search, is not happy today with Yahoo’s new BOSS promotions.
  • The picture shown here, is a near exact replica of SearchMe’s interface used for Yahoo’s ‘Builld Your Own Search Engine’ campaign.
  • SearchMe has nothing to worry about. Their business has everything to do with its front end display, where Yahoo was just showing off BOSS and it’s back end abilities.
  • Hence there is no confllict of interest here other than showing everyone that building a similar business to SearchMe with Yahoo BOSS is very possible, which it is.

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SocialMention’s Search Scours Blogs, Microblogs, Bookmarks

by John Jorgensen on September 23, 2008

  • SocialMention lets you search for keywords across different content sources: blogs, micro-blogs, bookmarks, comments, events, images, news and videos.
  • “Hot conversations” displays the most discussed topics of the day.
  • Sources results from Google blog search, Twitter, Delicious, FriendFeed, Flickr, Digg, YouTub, and more.
  • Slow: searches can take up to 5 seconds.
  • Useful for companies wanting to track conversations about them.
  • Built on Yahoo’s BOSS search platform.

Made tiny from: Mashable.com

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