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5:12:06 PM
" In August 2005, just before Dunne's 18th birthday, her parents gave her that letter and about 10 more." - In the Trib, Both a sacrifice and a gift
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2:35:19 PM
What the hell ever happened to making money by making a product which users love ? the world, well more specifically the software world, has completely lost its way (in the name of Web 2.0). The name of the game has become making money by foisting Ajax links on users every other line (never mind we can't see the lines below so we might read what they posted) and placing Google ads anywhere and everywhere. The ads are no longer even placed nicely, just put them in the users face so we get the money. We are so high on ourselves or delusional to the point that we think that our users will completely ignore the ads are making it extremely painful to read the content.
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2:28:34 PM
Other Yahoo TV debacle quotes I like:
- "Imagine you went out to your car this morning and found that Lexus had changed the way the accelerator worked, so that you had to restart the engine every time you wanted to press the gas pedal." - Dave If it ain't broke don't fix it
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The success of the product was based on how little time you spent there. If you were there you wanted to be watching TV. We were not concerned about being the “be all, end all TV destination”.
You need to focus on solving your users problems. If you do that, everything else will follow. If you fail to do that, nothing else matters.
In the old days if you built fat, slow pages Filo used to come to your cube and tell you to build leaner pages, not so much anymore I guess… " Eric Schwartz In Comments via Mike Crunch
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And giving employees the ability to respond directly, permanently and in real time takes guts and a commitment by senior execs to embrace users, even when they hate you.- Mr. Arrington again, same place Mike Crunch
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2:19:54 PM
"Why did we manage to toss both "simple" and "useful" aside and substitute "flashy" for them?" - Jeremy Zawodny chimes in on the Yahoo TV debacle - Don't fuck with Simple
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