This New Year’s eve I thought I might blog some predictions for the coming year, (social purchasing, app stores, yada yada), but I decided that wasn’t stupid enough, so at risk of sounding like a deranged conspiracy theorist, here’s my outlook for 2013 instead. Sweet dreams, and happy 2011 everyone! Read more…
My geek friends are up in arms about Yahoo! shutting down Del.icio.us.
Apparently it falls into the category of “underperforming or off-strategy” products. The echo chambers are ablaze with calls to save it, or open the source code. Of course, my non-geek friends ask “What’s Delicious?” – and there’s the rub.
I’m not qualified to examine Yahoo!’s original business strategy for Del.icio.us, but one thing is pretty clear to me — the masses don’t use bookmarks; not even the browser toolbar kind, let alone a Cloud solution – sorry, I mean Web-based solution.
Remember this? (view comments oldest first). Meet the masses.
I logged onto TwitPic this morning, and was struck by the Twitter-like appearance of their new design.
[ Update: this design very quickly reverted, and has not been re-instated ]
