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By: Gaffney3.com

Gaffney3.com — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:03:05 +0000

Yahoo to shift focus in entertainment division…

Catching up on TechCrunch today, they have an interesting anonymous tip that Yahoo would be shifting away from premium services in the music group.
Vince Broady, head of Yahoo’s entertainment and video group, has since blogged that this isn’…

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 06:06:18 +0000

see Brad’s peanut butter manifesto. little has changed culturally since then, though many of the players have.

Sure, some investments have been made, but the root of the problem is that Yahoo doesn’t know how to value investments. They value politics, not performance.

By: silly insider

silly insider — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 23:23:09 +0000

whoppie nailed it perfectly. get rid of the BUs…the root of the problem…no one is willing to take a risk in the current envrionment. with jerry at the helm now is the time to make this big change. it would of been impossible under terry.

the ship is turning around…albeit slowly.

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By: nate willard

nate willard — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:47:39 +0000

What about Y! Broadway?

By: David Fox

David Fox — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:24:34 +0000

I bought into the premium service inc. the matching Sansa player. Great idea but still very rough around the edges, slow and buggy, and way more convoluted than ipod. And that DRM sure is annoying. Leave the player undocked for a couple of weeks and one gets a “Your license has expired” message. Sheez! I paid for a year already!

But the general idea of large library (though a much better classical selection is much needed) for a fixed fee is great. I’ve found a lot of music.

But I would be hard pressed to recommend Yahoo after trying Rhapsody on my Nokia n800. Better selection, better interface.

By: Ohio Bob

Ohio Bob — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 05:14:24 +0000

Did anyone see this:
http://breakoutperformance.blo.....rture.html

Y! is selling off money-making units at supercheap valuations?
And no comment (zip, zero, nada, nothing) from management?
What the he77 is going on?

By: Adrian

Adrian — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 04:25:44 +0000

I have created a list of 62 of the best music sites for getting full tracks, either for download or streaming. Also, my domain groovetip.com is for sale…
http://blog.wajsbrem.com/index.....music-fix/

By: Tom Chi

Tom Chi — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 02:03:37 +0000

Yahoo is about to be reborn. It takes a little doing… it’s time to be patient.

By: iHero

iHero — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:16:42 +0000

The mole is probably the one in charge of customer service — there customer service really does stink. I had a similar go round as Kris from florida. I moved my sites and email to NETSOL.

By: Jeffery

Jeffery — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 00:38:20 +0000

The leak at Yahoo hasn’t moved on or been let go, yet? Who is this person and what incentive would this person have to leak confidential meeting minutes other than some stupid high he/she must get from controlling information flow? Is Techcrunch bankrolling this person? Seriously, if this person doesn’t have the loyalty to keep the info from a confidential meeting confidential, then they should be shown the door.

By: whoopie

whoopie — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:24:34 +0000

oh by the way its amusing they talk about being “behind” the santa monica office…my understanding is that this office has a big “for rent” sign on it (or will soon)…the company is correcting an obvious mistake in its SoCal misadventure

By: Glenn

Glenn — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:23:44 +0000

The only thing wrong with LAUNCHcast Plus is having to use their “player” in IE; I’d much rather have a stand-alone player like fb2k, or even Winamp, with a plug-in, or at least make it Firefox compatible. The only thing better was MusicMatch OnDemand (before Yahoo! bought ‘em), till they (Yahoo!) started dropping artists from the catalog for just listening… but, hey!, you could buy ‘em in the store… whoopee!

Still, yeah, LAUNCHcast Plus is a truly excellent service (content-wise).

By: whoopie

whoopie — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:22:02 +0000

yahoo has to cut out some businesses. as others point out, it has always been difficult for the company to do

the basic predicate of business at yahoo - that small business units are responsible for their own profit and loss - has spawned an environment where the company has little driving strategy, duplication, mixed messaging, etc.

shutting off some BUs is a start, even if they are marginally profitable. the problem is that almost everything at yahoo makes *some* money - they are good at destaffing and automating low-value (but not *no* value) properties. making the decision to turn off some money is hard, but they have to do it as their new projects demand more heads. hiring is a bitch in the valley, yahoo is already cannibalizing just to staff new ads projects.

as for the music game…i am hoping for amazon to change it. drm is dead and it is time for that message to hit the quarterly reports.

By: Phillip Marquez

Phillip Marquez — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 22:15:14 +0000

@Sean (#13):

The programming is pretty crappy but you’ve discovered a lot of new music with it?

o.O

By: June

June — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:51:29 +0000

good and brave move for yahoo.

By: Sean

Sean — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:44:57 +0000

I hope they don’t get rid of Y Music Unlimited - $6/mo gets me unlimited CD quality music streaming. The program itself is pretty crappy but I have discovered a lot of new music with this thing and I love it! If only iTunes would offer the same feature, even for $15/mo, I would subscribe, just so I could use the music with my iPod!

By: Kris from Florida

Kris from Florida — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:27:37 +0000

yahoo is frustrating the hell out of me…

I have like 5 domains with yahoo , additionally I have a custom mailbox on a domain that I ordered a year ago.

It was about a year ago when I bought the mailbox, since they tried to charge my card for the custom mailbox again just this week for $34 or something . It did not go through, so they sent me an email to let me know that I have to pay for the mailbox to renew it .

(how about sending a friendly reminder before you charge the card, I know you are not scared of friendly reminders because you send out those about other services you promote )

So I tried to renew the domain with the custom mailbox online, but after trying 3 times to renew the domain without the mailbox it would not go through, so I had to call them .

I was told that I would have to pay for the custom mailbox first, before renewing my domain, after I told them that I do not need my mail box, and I dont want to pay for it . The lady on the phone said that she can not do it otherwise . Is this surreal or what ?

I feel like they are blackmailing me to pay for the mailbox to keep my domain .

I am so frustrated about it, I will transfer all my domains from them, I do not know what the shareholders are thinking about this kind of practices .

Kris

By: stone

stone — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:10:24 +0000

It’s a sad state of affairs. We’re all witnessing the slow motion destruction of a “once-great” Internet giant.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 21:04:35 +0000

While the management team has changed a bunch in the last (nearly) two years since I left there, it’s still the case that the right hand doesn’t have the same priorities as the left hand.

Unless and until they can sort that core issue out, they won’t be able to budge the stock price, despite all they do.

By: ollie

ollie — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:44:31 +0000

maybe if they could just make what they do offer work more smoothly, and stop promising things that never come about, they’d be doing better.

By: Lee C.

Lee C. — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:31:14 +0000

“Our sources are telling us that tomorrow afternoon Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang will be holding a confidential meeting for all Yahoo execs (vice presidents and above, called the “leadership team”) to map out his strategic plan for the company going forward. ”

and
“I’m hoping we’ll have the opportunity to live blog the event via one of our sources”

Wouldn’t that defeat the purpose of a “confidential meeting” to discuss strategy?

By: Patrick Grote

Patrick Grote — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:05:30 +0000

Bummer. I hope they don’t change their Launchcast Plus service. I love it. It’s a great radio.