Net denizens released a collective "Yahooooo!" hours ago when Terry Semel, Yahoo's CEO got a long-overdue foot in his ass. He was replaced by company co-founder Jerry Yang, who actually knows how to turn on a computer and write code (and isn't scared shitless among tech peers like Semel is in this picture from 2005's Web 2.0 conference).
Semel's "resignation" (or quit-firing as it's also known) came after Yahoo's stock price remained dead flat since Google's 2004 IPO, and Google's stock grew by 600%.
Before his quit-firing, Semel made $71 million in 2006 alone, which made him the highest paid CEO among 386 publicly held companies covered in a recent executive compensation poll by the Associated Press (and sanctioned by the SEC.)
It's well-known that Semel hardly checks his own email, but even worse, during his 24 years at Warner Brothers, he created Hollywood's current studio system in which execs spit acronyms in meetings then delegate "action plans" to MBAs who fight over delegating to mail-room types so they can spend their time re-writing original scripts (look it up, it's all true.)
Good riddance to Semel, and good luck to Yang. Although Yang & Co. also deserve some of Yahoo's misforture for asking a suit to drive the once-mighty bus they build in their garage.
guerillasphere said:
Good riddens to Semel, and good luck to Yang. Although Yang & Co. also deserve some of Yahoo's misforture for asking a suit to drive the once-mighty bus they build in their garage.
Meh. Yahoo! was never an especially well-designed site or suite of services. I have serious doubts that anyone in the upper tier of the company has or ever had the creativity and design skills to compete with Google.
guerillasphere said:
Good riddens to Semel, and good luck to Yang. Although Yang & Co. also deserve some of Yahoo's misforture for asking a suit to drive the once-mighty bus they build in their garage.
good "RIDDANCE."
you missed "MISFORTUNE". I wouldn't have said anything but you went to to the effort to point out a spelling mistake, and left another within the same quote untouched. And that's funny.
yea man, sorry for the typos. i was trying to get it submitted as quick as possible last night when i saw the report. anyway, i stand by my assertion that Semel is an asswipe and his $71m 2006 compensation for failing on every level represents everything that's wrong with big media. long live boutiques like SG...
guerillasphere said:
Good riddens to Semel, and good luck to Yang. Although Yang & Co. also deserve some of Yahoo's misforture for asking a suit to drive the once-mighty bus they build in their garage.
good "RIDDANCE."
you missed "MISFORTUNE". I wouldn't have said anything but you went to to the effort to point out a spelling mistake, and left another within the same quote untouched. And that's funny.
As long as we're all playing editor for a day here, may as well finish the paragraph by correcting the tense on"build". It should be "built". (It's not like I didn't fully understand the original, typos and tense foibles or not.)
guerillasphere said:
Good riddens to Semel, and good luck to Yang. Although Yang & Co. also deserve some of Yahoo's misforture for asking a suit to drive the once-mighty bus they build in their garage.
good "RIDDANCE."
you missed "MISFORTUNE". I wouldn't have said anything but you went to to the effort to point out a spelling mistake, and left another within the same quote untouched. And that's funny.
As long as we're all playing editor for a day here, may as well finish the paragraph by correcting the tense on"build". It should be "built". (It's not like I didn't fully understand the original, typos and tense foibles or not.)
um, you didn't put a space between on and "build", and your parenthetical addendum was poorly constructed. Inadequate Grammar Nazis UNTIE!
guerillasphere said:
Good riddens to Semel, and good luck to Yang. Although Yang & Co. also deserve some of Yahoo's misforture for asking a suit to drive the once-mighty bus they build in their garage.
good "RIDDANCE."
you missed "MISFORTUNE". I wouldn't have said anything but you went to to the effort to point out a spelling mistake, and left another within the same quote untouched. And that's funny.
As long as we're all playing editor for a day here, may as well finish the paragraph by correcting the tense on"build". It should be "built". (It's not like I didn't fully understand the original, typos and tense foibles or not.)
um, you didn't put a space between on and "build", and your parenthetical addendum was poorly constructed. Inadequate Grammar Nazis UNTIE!
" Inadequate Grammar Nazis UNTIE!"
That's fucking beautiful!!! Really. There is absolutely not one iota of sarcasm in what I just said, implied or otherwise.
"and your parenthetical addendum was poorly constructed."
Yea, never got around to getting my contractors license. Oh, I also used illegal non union labor. Not bonded or insured either. Just lucky I got it posted without a jobsite accident.
guerillasphere said:
Good riddens to Semel, and good luck to Yang. Although Yang & Co. also deserve some of Yahoo's misforture for asking a suit to drive the once-mighty bus they build in their garage.
good "RIDDANCE."
you missed "MISFORTUNE". I wouldn't have said anything but you went to to the effort to point out a spelling mistake, and left another within the same quote untouched. And that's funny.
As long as we're all playing editor for a day here, may as well finish the paragraph by correcting the tense on"build". It should be "built". (It's not like I didn't fully understand the original, typos and tense foibles or not.)
um, you didn't put a space between on and "build", and your parenthetical addendum was poorly constructed. Inadequate Grammar Nazis UNTIE!
Technically, periods and commas should go inside quotes, not outside.
Yahoo is good at some things (mostly, free mailing list with low-key ads that you can also browse like a web-based BBS). There's a few niche markets where it's pretty much a required tool (WFTDA and roller derby in general). Even if you've got access to something better (oh, say a message board of your own), you use Yahoo Groups too because the rest of that niche community uses it.
guerillasphere
San Francisco, CA
March 2006
JUN 19, 2007 10:06 AM