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by dotcoma 6390 days ago
if only Yahoo! would really embrace its people powered roots, nowadays evident in Flickr and del.icio.us, and keep these sites independent and geeky, and useful to feed bottom-up information and content into Yahoo! (remember? it was a directory 15 years ago), and accept the fact that most of the users of Yahoo! proper are not super technologically savvy anymore, and create a simple portal by the people and for the people, and never be afraid of being too "low" by appealing to normal people's fascination with, well, other people, famous people, singers, movies, sports, gossip etc.