Comments on: Flickr Founders Leave Yahoo http://paidcontent.org/2008/06/18/419-flickr-founders-leave-yahoo/ The economics of digital content Tue, 21 May 2013 07:31:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Krista Neher http://paidcontent.org/2008/06/18/419-flickr-founders-leave-yahoo/#comment-61216 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:00:35 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/06/18/419-flickr-founders-leave-yahoo/#comment-61216 The real question is what is in store for Flickr? Will their departure make an impact? Flickr has been one of the few shining lights of Yahoo….

]]> By: kenobi http://paidcontent.org/2008/06/18/419-flickr-founders-leave-yahoo/#comment-61215 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:45:09 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/06/18/419-flickr-founders-leave-yahoo/#comment-61215 What Yahoo social tools? Yahoo360? Did Fake have any input on that?

]]> By: Thomas Hawk http://paidcontent.org/2008/06/18/419-flickr-founders-leave-yahoo/#comment-61214 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 08:40:23 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/06/18/419-flickr-founders-leave-yahoo/#comment-61214 When Stewart and Caterina sold their company to Yahoo! three years ago the stock price was 40% higher than it is today — hopefully they took more cash than stock. If your three year lock up was over, wouldn't you now jump the sinking ship?

]]> By: purplerein http://paidcontent.org/2008/06/18/419-flickr-founders-leave-yahoo/#comment-61213 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:54:09 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/06/18/419-flickr-founders-leave-yahoo/#comment-61213 stewart and caterina are great people, awesome innovators, salts of the earth, and so on, but where did you get the idea that they were "driving a lot of product innovation" within the company? Did you actually do any reporting? Did Stewart ever touch any other part of Yahoo? Has Caterina been anywhere near Brickhouse for over a year?

Plus, whoever told you "Fake was leading the community/social tools development at Yahoo" is smoking crack. If only she were!

]]> By: Blog Marketing Journal http://paidcontent.org/2008/06/18/419-flickr-founders-leave-yahoo/#comment-61212 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:50:13 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/06/18/419-flickr-founders-leave-yahoo/#comment-61212 That is certainly a big loss… shame!

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