So much easy historical irony- Yahoo Pipes (the BBC article about the web is about it too… so much for remix/mashup culture), the time before YouTube became the videos site, Adobe bringing Flash to phones.
But the biggest loss imo is the link at the bottom- we really could’ve used an ongoing Idiot Startup site/blog a la The Daily WTF for all these years.
Edit: breathless hype for Pipes:
> While Google concentrates on challenging Microsoft Office with its online word processors and spreadsheets, Yahoo! has looked much more deeply into the way the net works and given us the building blocks for a brand new way of dealing with online content.
> This isn't user-generated content, it's user-controlled content. And unlike personalised pages or simple feed subscriptions it really does put control into the hands of the user.
> But Yahoo! has given us a glimpse of the networked future, where the world's information is not only at our fingertips, but available to be mixed, mashed and filtered on demand, giving us what we want, when we want it - and from wherever we can get it. There will be no going back.
But the biggest loss imo is the link at the bottom- we really could’ve used an ongoing Idiot Startup site/blog a la The Daily WTF for all these years.
Edit: breathless hype for Pipes:
> While Google concentrates on challenging Microsoft Office with its online word processors and spreadsheets, Yahoo! has looked much more deeply into the way the net works and given us the building blocks for a brand new way of dealing with online content.
> This isn't user-generated content, it's user-controlled content. And unlike personalised pages or simple feed subscriptions it really does put control into the hands of the user.
> But Yahoo! has given us a glimpse of the networked future, where the world's information is not only at our fingertips, but available to be mixed, mashed and filtered on demand, giving us what we want, when we want it - and from wherever we can get it. There will be no going back.