Parece que Yahoo está en horas bajas. Sus empleados se las piran a otros sitios. El último en marcharse ha sido el director de Desarrollo Corporativo….

plus, Yahoo has tried to hire me, and Google hasn’t. that tells me everything i need to know..

Out there in the world beyond the Valley, 7 year olds and their Moms are using Yahoo, not Google, to do stuff on the Internet and have some fun. They may find Yahoo a bit cluttered, but they find Google’s blank slate intimidating and un-fun.

-Amit

Process notwithstanding, the question is do I have this time. I would want my site indexed and kicking right away.

http://ryanmape...s-500-mark.html

from an Internet entrepreneur who points out the differences between Yahoo’s failures and Google’s successes—at lot can be found through Garlinghouse’s memo.

Yahoo!’s peanut-butter problem

Nov 23rd 2006 | SAN FRANCISCO
From The Economist print edition
A disturbing trend in the literary genre of leaked corporate memos

WRITING a manifesto good enough to cause trouble has been difficult ever since Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels set the bar rather high in 1848. So today’s corporate bosses tend to call their manifestos “memos” instead. The genre has thrived in recent years. A decade ago, Microsoft’s Bill Gates penned a classic, “the internet tidal wave”. Last year, Ray Ozzie, Mr Gates’s successor as Microsoft’s software boss, did quite well with “the internet services disruption”, a thoughtful treatise as such things go.

The latest example from Yahoo!, the world’s largest internet company by some measures, reverses the trend. Brad Garlinghouse, a manager just senior enough to be noteworthy, has put forth a “Peanut Butter Manifesto”, which was helpfully “leaked” to the Wall Street Journal. It was meant as part St Crispin’s Day speech to rally the troops, part corporate analysis of Yahoo!’s many troubles, part turnaround plan—and, it seems, part publicity stunt. But it turned out to be a redundant series of platitudes, split infinitives, clichés and mixed metaphors.

Yahoo!’s problems—it is lagging badly behind Google in advertising growth and market valuation—stem from a lack of focus, which inspires Mr Garlinghouse to evoke the metaphor of thinly spread peanut butter. But not, however, to the exclusion of other staples of the memo tradition, such as “silos”, “analysis paralysis”, “dropped balls”, and so forth. Mr Garlinghouse briefly gets specific, suggesting that 15-20% of Yahoo!’s staff should be laid off, but then returns to his theme, namely that “the smoothly spread peanut butter needs to turn into a deliberately sculpted strategy” (sic).

He repeatedly proclaims his loyalty: “I love Yahoo! I’m proud to admit that I bleed purple and yellow. I’m proud to admit that I shaved a Y in the back of my head.” He then signs off with a final exhortation: “Catch the balls. And stop eating peanut butter.” Is it any wonder that Yahoo! is struggling?

TechCrunch suggested Yahoo\’s massive change in its corporate structure.
Michael Marquez, Yahoo\’s Director of Corporate Development, left the company after The Garlinghouse Memo signaled Yahoo\’s corporate restructure….

To date, little has been said about Yahoo!’s board and their role in all this. Here’s a suggestion for their 8 of 10 outside directors:

http://breakout...-have-skin.html

Thanks,

Eric

Last Friday, Yahoo! lost another important person in the management ranks. This time, it was the Director of Corporate Development, Michael Marquez. Marquez is leaving to take a position at CBS Interactive….