[wonderyak]

> In our view, this degrades the experience for the majority of users and makes it hard to deliver on our value proposition to them.

I know Yahoo! has to maintain their business which depends on things like ads and content delivery; but to say it with such sterile marketing jargon just makes me nauseous.

How about you guys do what everyone else has had to do since the beginning; create something awesome and let people use it with a minimal barrier to entry. Right now, Yahoo! is like a giant skyscraper tenented only by iPhone case kiosks.

[wpietri]

The problem is that Yahoo's customers aren't their users. Yahoo's users are the veal calves. They don't seem to understand what to do with businesses where the customers are the users. Flickr, for example.