Comments on: Where does Yahoo! head next?

By: sohbet

sohbet — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:26:49 +0000

thank you

By: smt

smt — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:27:15 +0000

open your php framework as you opened the fantastic YUI, open your svn server as google code does, developers will follow in a crowd.

By: don

don — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:56:09 +0000

Well, another month has gone by, and still yahoo officials allow petty meglomaniac employees to dish out punishment on yahoo members.
And guess what folks?
There still is not a yahoo department or individual for ‘member rights’. When you sign up for a yahoo account, you sign away all your own rights. Read it. Its all about yahoo, and what yahoo wants.
I realize that yahoo is a privately owned company, but it seems to me that when a company does business with the public, the public has some rights, and some say-so about how that company does business with the public.
This is common sence and GOOD BUSINESS, and good for business.
Not to mention, common decency, and maybe even CIVILIZED?
Listen up yahoo. The day of the greedy pig is comming to an end.
Wake up and look around yahoo big-wigs. It doesnt work, and people are getting sick of it.
duh

By: don

don — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 05:52:43 +0000

—skuze me while I ramble.
You know I was thinking again about yahoo, and pretty bummed because I did enjoy yahoo.
Yahoo was my ‘world’ on the internet, and Ive been with yahoo since its beginning.
Yahoo is huge, with all kinds of useful and fun stuff to explore.
But over the years Ive seen yahoo go downhill.
Dealing with yahoo isnt much fun anymore. More like work, or downright WAR.
Yahoo is forcing me to go elsewhere to work and play.
Maybe yahoo is too big, and now its infrastructure is breaking down.
Whats worse is that whomever runs yahoo, doesnt seem to care.
No one at yahoo listens.
‘Customer service’ is a joke too. [Yahoo's employees care only about their paychecks, from top to bottom, it seems.]
—–>Now…….I have to shake my head.
Can anyone say, ‘out of touch with reality’?
It amazes me that anyone at yahoo can overlook the fact that if you run people off, ‘THEY DONT THROW MONEY AT YOU’!!!
duh
High traffic means more money spent.
Yahoo’s high mucky-mucks are lost in la-la land. They are rich, but in my humble opinion, not very smart.
Yahoo doesnt need to change to get better except in one way only.
FIX THE PROBLEMS THAT EXIST RIGHT NOW.
I want my yahoo ‘home’ back, and yahoo wants my money.
I want to feel secure in my yahoo home also, and yahoo should want to feel secure in its future.
This is all so ludichrist and un-necessary.

By: mary sciole

mary sciole — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 16:43:57 +0000

yes yang you have a power over all of us and my little input i know does not matter but you have hung us out to dry thank you …………………………………..I really thought out of an obligation to current subscribers you would hav ethe decency to fix current bugs plaguing yahoo 360. Perhaps you do not care or give a damm about people only money ,im sure thats the reason behind this stinking transition but for some on here this is a life line and you pulled the plug no messages can be viewed or sent .Its been a nightmare on 360 millions of people are very upset not that you care and i know im writing in vain im just one of the little people who don,t matter to you but i just had to voice my opinion ————yahoo 360 was just great the way it was why you mr yang want to fisx something that is not broken is beyond me oh yea excuse me MONEY GOD OF THE AMERICAN WAY ,PEOPLE OR FEELING MERE BUGS TO BE CRUSHED BY PEOPLE LIKE YOU .

By: Beth Wellington

Beth Wellington — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 03:13:19 +0000

Isn’t time for an update on the 360 “transition?” You’re losing users to multiply, blogger, wordpress, etc. I waited until today, but hearing nothing from y’all, I’ve starting putting new posts at blogger. As a result, you will also lose traffic when I list my webpage as the new blog address.

By: don

don — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 02:03:02 +0000

oh yeah
I forgot to mention.
Have you noticed how trashy yahoo games have become?
[I didnt cuss yahoo people]
Yahoo games reflects yahoo in general.
Try and concentrate in yahoo games.
You cant do it.
FLASH FLASH FLASH FLASH FLASH FLASH
Thats yahoo advertising folks.
Obnoxious
ugly
useless – as not one yahoo games player buys any of this stuff.
Its sad.
Yahoo used to care about its members and customers, and yahoo was an exciting internet experiance.
Now its a war.
Yahoo members fighting off yahoo’s ignorance.
[I bet this post gets deleted.]
don

By: don

don — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 01:52:39 +0000

Oh gee. Another of my posts here have been deleted.
I wonder when yahoo people will wake up.
All the critizim here, or anywhere in yahoo, ‘ABOUT YAHOO’, could be used by yahoo to —>BETTERBETTER<— YAHOO MEANS MORE MONEY FOR YAHOO AND ITS EMPLOYEES!!!
— a big fat duh
But do you think anyone at yahoo is smart enough to realize this, and cash in on this asset?
not a chance.

delete this post.
[its about you peoples speed.]

don

By: david tweedy

david tweedy — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 08:19:42 +0000

Yahoo 360 is a site that people of my generation understand an apperciate. Multiply is a distant scond and madh is crap If 360 shuts down I will not be on the internet as much and I will not use yahoo and will discourge all my friends from using it or it advertizers and if Mr. ying yang thinks we baby boomers don’t matter he can go down the drain with yahoo.

By: don christ

don christ — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 06:58:26 +0000

Mr Yang
I noticed that most, if not all, adverse or negative comments about yahoo, or yourself, posted here are being deleted.
—->Why is that, Mr Yang?
I, personally, have some issues with yahoo, [critisims if you like], that I think would improve yahoo if they were seriously looked into, and resolved.
Furthermore, I have some suggestions on how yahoo can make even more money!!!!
But I wont waste my suggestions if I dont see some interest from yahoo, and you personally, Mr Yang, on the afore mentioned issues that affect your business, and every yahoo employee and member.
don christ

By: don

don — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:45:02 +0000

Mr Yang
One more comment or question, depending.
Why doesnt yahoo clean up its act?
‘EVERY’ yahoo page is cluttered with advertising, some which flash causing headaches, [or worse].
Most of this adverizing is ‘undesireable’ to the average yahoo user, and unused.
—>WHAT A WASTE OF MONEY!!!
I went to New York City recently, and everywhere one looked, there was trash,ugliness,filth.
I notice also that yahoo’s members are slowly moving elsewhere to enjoy the internet.
But then I guess youve made more money than any 500,000 people and you dont care.
Yahoo used to be a premium site, outshining every other internet site.
Today…….
thank you
don christ
ludichrist2000@yahoo.com

By: vsws06

vsws06 — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:45:16 +0000

I use my yahoo as my homepage and enjoy the new modules. I would like to be able to view my y360 page right on my yahoo rather then being let go cuz it took me a long time just to set up my y360 page and would like to keep it even if I have to pay a small membership dues to hang on to it. Just finished putting enough contents in it to be able to start inviting friends but now must put on hold because who wants to invite someone when you aren’t sure if you are going to be there anymore. Come on don’t let us baby boomers down after all we are the majority of spenders out there aren’t we?

By: karen

karen — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:52:33 +0000

well first of all i was so shock to see that 360 is closing I just start to like it more and another thing why did you change the chat rooms see we all had friends on other rooms now we never see them at all to me this is very sad thats all for now please change the rooms back please and keep 360

By: EmpressCelena

EmpressCelena — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:25:15 +0000

Well I have now been with Multiply for about a month. The site has some serious issues. Like it sends you mail updates for every annoying possibility. If your friends friend leaves them a comment in their guest book you get an email as an update. Everyone hates this. Everyone complains about it. People want their own updates not everyone else’s. One thing some like and others don’t like ~ It is hard to harrass and stalk when your picture pops up on the bottom of the page every time you even enter someone’s page. This is a good thing. LOL Keeps the harrassing idiots down to a low roar as they cannot even enter another’s page without leaving a visible trail. I think everyone is still in limbo wondering what kind of mess Yahoo is going to produce to replace 360. Some will never come back. That is Yahoo’s loss for not thinking that they are dealing with human beings instead of just doing what ever they like. This is not a communist community. Think of that the next time you decide to force changes on people that didn’t want it. Maybe a preview of the new location and its features are in order. It had better not be bloglog or even the Mash as no one likes them……

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:03:14 +0000

Dear Mr. Yang:

I think your marketing department doesn’t know its anal opening from a hole in the ground. As Jesse B., the MBA student commented, capture the young and the rest will follow. Good advice, if you believe that the young are like Peter Pan and never grow up. However, if you throw off the adults, baby boomers included, you have thrown out not only a huge market, but a huge market with money in favor of teenies with minimum wage jobs.

People are speaking and Yahoo still isn’t listening. Having a cute yodel as a recognizable slogan is not enough. The angry migration from 360 to other sites, including primarily, Multiply, is not putting Yahoo is a very favorable light. Interesting that the Multiply CEO has already responded to a blog of Yahoo 360 refugees. The Multiply CEO is listening and responding.

Perhaps it’s time to leave your ivory tech tower and find out what is really happening with your users, or are you advocating a Marie Antoinette attitude of ‘let them eat cake.’ Just remember what happened to her! In a figurative sense, heads could roll, if you and the other powers that be at Yahoo, continue to refuse to listen.

By: Jen

Jen — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:40:16 +0000

mr yang,
please keep a few services like yahoo tickets and yahoo movies and yahoo tv and yahoo groups and yahoo broadway and yahoo avatars and yahoo message boards please i use these sites all the time

By: Jesse B

Jesse B — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:10:13 +0000

Jerry,

I am an MBA student doing a term project on Yahoo!. It seems to me, after researching and understanding the problems that Yahoo! is facing, that all of your answers lie within comments made on this page. Yahoo is geared toward an older target market. If you win over younger users then the rest will follow. How do you do this? Focus on integrating more of your awesome products into one user friendly platform that acts like myspace, but is so much more fun to use. Think about what kids are into…the coolest new video games and then make your new streamlined product as user interactive as possible. Read through all of these comments and then collaborate them. The answers are here, but you’re not listening. Your upper management people are great at looking at new acquisitions and figuring out if they are financially sound investments, but it’s your young, edgy, rebellious engineers that need to be leading the way in product development. Be willing to listen and then lead rather than the other way around.

By: Mrs Riete Nijdeken

Mrs Riete Nijdeken — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 23:11:27 +0000

I’ve posted a comment some time ago (Oct 20th, to be precise) and this afternoon I’ve been reading all posts following that. They all amount to the same thing – anger, frustration and a deep desire to keep 360.
Up till now we have not heard one iota from anyone from Yahoo. My serious guess is that no one has even bothered to read any of this. Thay are reviewed … by whom may I ask? Not by people who care bout their product!
I’ve moved to Multiply, which turned out to be a great place to be, with a team that actually does listen and does something when needed…
But I’m sorry for 360 – it was great and it could have been so much better … if only …

By: Fanta

Fanta — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:57:22 +0000

I had a blast on 360 and made many valuable connections through your service. It was the best blogging I ever experienced, I can assure you.
But as I am not a teenager anymore and Mash -type sites simply won’t do it for me, I had to pack all my bags (entries) and transfer them to better grounds. It was a sad moment, but had to be done, as no-one likes to be held in mid-air while a decision is made.
But I am just one individual. I believe you have created sadness in thousands of souls within this amazing community. What are souls, compared to hard-core business?

Searching for the same friends you have accumulated on 360 on other blog sites will take a little extra time. But this is the price we have to pay, as nothing really comes free these days-does it?
You must move on following your ideas, and so do we.

Many of us have backed up our blog entries onto other sites, just to make sure they won’t dissappear into thin air, whenever the transition is being made (to Mash-I guess???-because I have never-ever heard of any other alternatives).

Wishing you all the very best with your decisions in the future.

By: luvmt

luvmt — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 22:32:10 +0000

I miss my 360 and all my friends. It’s incredibly frustrating not to know whats going on. I started a multiply site but it is too much like myspace for me to really enjoy it. I liked the ease of 360 and the fact that there were no graphics to bog down loading time.

Please hurry and bring it back for us.

thank you

By: Blade

Blade — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 13:44:20 +0000

You are in a process of renewal. We support everything you do, just in case you let our faith in you not shaken, for it is firm within us

By: rmagedon

rmagedon — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 19:22:39 +0000

Gee, I have read your post now six times and I cannot see in there anywhere where it says 360 is closing or that you are not going to service it.

Always amazed to watch how rumors start, taking two segments of a 400 word piece and twisting them together to come to the conclusion you want to sell.

Went over to Multiply at the urging, ney make that at the coercion of friends, had a big screw up, reported it and Multiply essentially told me I was stupid and it was my fault. May have been but you do not say it that way. And now I am getting PO’d at people who stop by everyday demanding I go to Multiply, forget about it.

So I am not leaving, like Mash and 360 and am sure I will like how it transitions in the spring.

By: Empress Celena

Empress Celena — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:48:47 +0000

A very large number of people left 360 and went to Multiply because of 360 closing and all of a sudden becoming more buggy then it has ever been. This had people not being able to post blogs or comment to their friends. We were told that we would be able to continue to use 360 until it was moved. Well that is not true either is it? So many have went to Multiply and say they will never come back to Yahoo for anything. Yeah 360 was beta but just because something is beta doesn’t mean it will be ended in a few years. So many were not expecting this. So many are angry and frustrated as they loved 360 and thought of it as home. You can not yank someone’s home out from under them and expect them to still have any loyalty to your company. It saddens me greatly as I have had a lot of fun times with my friends on 360. I would say half of my friends from 360 went to multiply. More than half, some I know, some new that I met, will not be coming back. Why would you betray your own and then call it a move for them? People need more than the pathetic excuses, as for the 360 team that we have, these people did very little to ease the situation. They could have answered more questions and been a little more informative. And even after the news of the ending of 360 there is still no news of where or what it will be replaced with. WE want to know what it will look like. I KNOW FOR A FACT THAT EASE OF USE IS WHAT MADE PEOPLE LIKE 360. IF IT IS TOO HARD AND NO ONE LIKES IT, YOU WILL HAVE LESS BUSINESS THAN YOU DID WITH 360. People will stay with Multiply which to me is annoying. Too many stupid emails telling you that your friends have comments on their blogs, not yours, theirs! WHO cares? 360 was set up as being so much more user friendly than any site. To try to compete with Myspace is stupid. Kids want to go on Myspace because everyone made a big deal of it, so they think it is cool. Reverse commercializing. Bad Rep, kids want to see why it has a bad Rep. That can be done with any site.

By: Roslyn

Roslyn — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:58:01 +0000

I have read comments and can only repeat what many have already told you. To close 360 and not fix bugs until your team cuold come up with a better idea (To them not to us passionate 360 users) Was a very bad idea. I am, one of those who now has a home on Multiply as well as keeping my 360 open. Reason is as follows: Some of my friends cannot enter my blog/Comments, i cannot leave comments at times/Enter other people’s blogs either. You have officially announced that you will not be fixing 360 any longer.

I am only a registered nurse, not a media tycoon or a business woman but i do know one thing! When someone comes up with the best product ever (360) And when users, same as myself, actually brought others to join it (Even though they refused to go on yahoo beforehand) To let it go as you have done is the last thing to do! Yahoo should have been proud of 360 and maintained it for our community.

Naturally there are younger people about and they probably want a different product but what is wrong in being the great Yahoo that we all love! And being probably the only group on the web to cater for all ages?

My time on Multiply is due to the fact that my page on 360 doesn’t work. Many of my cyber family/friends have joined me there if we all keep hoping you will hear us out and maybe suggest to the person responsible for such a big change that it would have been a better idea to consult with users prior to doing so.

I still love yahoo if i feel so badly let down.

By: mightymite1957

mightymite1957 — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 02:20:57 +0000

I left two responses on the official Yahoo blogsite, if you would like to know what I and others really think, you may want to visit your own company’s rheteric.

We 360 users refuse to die
We’ll just transfer to Multiply……

By: Norma Henry

Norma Henry — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 05:46:45 +0000

I want to say that I have tried a few of these other programs, I started with MySpace and migrated to 360. I love my 360 mistakes, bugs and all I hope and pray you find a way around the problems because nobody, NOBODY, is doing for those of us who are die hard 360ers. I like having it all in one smooth website. I like the easy comments, wish they had an easy delete button – like the mail room does, I like the everything about it.
I have gone back to MySpace temporarily until this is resolved. I am still posting but not butting anything of real importance at the moment. Just staying in tune with my world wide friends.
I can tell that none of you in the 360 Team spend a lot of time personally on 360 reaching out. But to those of us who love to blog and love to talk to people all over the world 360 was the best. On a scale of 1 – 10 MySpace is a 4 everything else is a 2 and 360 even now is an 8.
I am sorry you have felt the need to transition and I hope it is a beneficial one. I, for one, will be there no matter what. So here is to a smooth transition.
And cheers to a new Year and a New 360.

By: Mickey

Mickey — Sun, 28 Oct 2007 04:39:38 +0000

Sorry Jerry,

Given the recent announcements about the transition, the current state of the 360° servers and the lack of focus and concern for the mainstream 360° consumer, I have already begun the migration to an alternate service. I hate doing it as the yahoo service has been a great place to grow and blog, but it feels like decisions were made regarding the service prior to having a plan in place to maintain presence.

I wish you luck in the future. From what I have seen, I am one of thousands leaving your service for greener grass.

This reeks of the Four “P”s…

Piss Poor Prior Planning.

Color me gone….

http://harleymick.multiply.com/

By: Michelle Langlinais

Michelle Langlinais — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 17:51:18 +0000

I moved from myspace to Yahoo 360 because there were more adults, more content, ease of use. And, now… my 360 friends are leaving in droves to other blog sites because of the proposed changes and the recent and still ongoing glitches.. (blogs disappearing, pages not available)

Why mess with something that is working and enjoyed? Enhance it, don’t change it.

By: Libra

Libra — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 15:43:12 +0000

My $$$ and my time go where my trust goes….I feel myself beginning to not trust.

I’ve enjoyed and learned so many interesting things on Yahoo 360. I built a friends list of interesting folks. Now I feel threatened, rather like a promise was not kept.

I’ll wait and see before I flee. Yahoo will not notice my leaving, but it will take note of OUR leaving.

By: Marty

Marty — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 13:36:27 +0000

Well written corporate speak Mr Yang!
Did you set up Focus Groups and Steerage committee’s to make your decisions? I guess 360 didn’t quite hit the mark for you. It’s a shame your customer service department at Y360 didn’t respond to its users in a satisfactory manner. Perhaps people got fed up getting no response and therefore failed to recommend on the product.
Communication seems to be a major obstacle. A little late, I see we are now getting some communication, but much of it is confused. First of all, rumour was allowed to proliferate about closure with no clear comment from yourselves. Then too late, we are told the blogging functionality will be preserved. Meantime, some people have become SO upset with lack of information, petulance has ruled and they have left ALL Yahoo products and actively bad mouthed Yahoo. That’s unworthy really, but it could have been avoided.
I guess it has to be put down to a learning experience.