Travis Vocino Named New Yahoo! CEO
- The Business, Technology entry posted on November 18th, 2008.
Jerry Yang is out (auf wiedersehen). Travis Vocino is in. Let me first say that it’s great to be here and I hope you’ll all support me in my new position. My blog posting frequency may suffer slightly but I’m sure you can understand that.
We’ve invested in interesting projects like Flickr and Del.icio.us but we haven’t really utilized them. This definitely needs to be looked at. Where are these products in the market? In spite of the fact that new photo sharing sites are being developed and aggressively marketed by old school photo companies like Fuji and Kodak, Flickr remains a leader. That’s a testament to the usability and friendly history of the app. Let’s capitalize on that and start integrating it into other services and hardware.
Where is our Disney Themeparks photo integration? We should own that market, we’re the leader.
The same can be said for Del.icio.us. There are a lot of bookmarking sites. I don’t know about you but I still hold my allegiances with Del. We can do better. Our apps are simple and smart. Why isn’t our ad word platform being utilized on these sites?
Just like Twitterific has advertising from The Deck, we should be leveraging API support from all these Del.icio.us desktop bookmarking apps and creating new tools that work better. A well-funded, sleek and easy to use app will generate loyal users that are willing to either pay for it or be happy to check out some well-placed advertisements.
Application developers that use the YUI should be contributing to a growing community of loyal Yahooligains. Let’s reward these people. Let’s expand on it and reward developers that use any Yahoo tools — integrate our ad structure, integrate our services, etc. We have an opportunity to be the leader in having the bleeding edge development community working for us — for free. Let’s grab it.
We have all these tools, unique applications, and solid infrastructure yet they’re siloed off and thus the development communities surrounding them are in their own silos. This needs to change.
Who is creating the Yahoo blogging application which integrates your Yahoo mail account, your Flickr account, your Del.icio.us account, Yahoo Maps, cool YUI hacks and more.
It could be you. Let’s reinvent Yahoo together.
25 Responses to “Travis Vocino Named New Yahoo! CEO”rss
Marsadie, on November 18th, 2008, said:
Loved this post! Hehe, clever. :)
Jon Williams, on November 19th, 2008, said:
Hmm. Maybe he can revitalize it. I wish him luck.
Jays, on November 20th, 2008, said:
We wish him the best. Maybe he can pull yahoo out of the slump. I still believe that Yahoo was once the strongest, and while they may never be that again, they need some fresh thinkers.
Jays, on November 22nd, 2008, said:
@survey - Things will improve, but I think yahoo has a long way to go. It will never be the old yahoo we loved.
Herbal Heaven, on November 23rd, 2008, said:
Nice post. Hope he can rebuild Yahoo better.
White, on November 23rd, 2008, said:
Hope Yahoo! will be better. I am the fan of Yahoo! for a long time.
Red, on November 25th, 2008, said:
You couldn’t do any worse. Yahoo has great possibilities but they’ve stalled and stagnated their properties.
Gerald, on November 29th, 2008, said:
I wish him and Yahoo good luck. Yahoo has been on a back slide for awhile now. someone needs to turn it around. Yahoo needs to stop starting and abandoning projects.
Gerald, on November 29th, 2008, said:
Yahoo has been on a back slide for some time now. Hopefully he can turn it around. They need to stop starting and abandoning new project. Any wish them good luck.
Goran Website, on December 2nd, 2008, said:
Wishing you all the best! My link on the tc list is wrong by the way, could you please see what the problem might be. It’s going to somebody elses site and not mine.
Josh, on December 27th, 2008, said:
Let us see what he can for Yahoo.
Ari Lestariono, on January 5th, 2009, said:
Very professional to be CEO for Yahoo.I would like to apply for it,is t possible, with my 15 years as Sales and Marketing in Oil and Gas??
Genel kultur, on January 7th, 2009, said:
10 years ago i use yahoo search engine ,mail, games…i even didn’t know about google but now i dont use anthing of the Yahoo. i use full of Google. So i think it was high time to make some change at Yahoo.!
Goran Website, on January 15th, 2009, said:
So you should be really looking forward to 2009. Happy New Year! BTW.
ciasta, on January 15th, 2009, said:
I hope yahoo will work around it’s problem. We need a little bit competition in the internet industry.
The Blogger Source, on January 24th, 2009, said:
Yahoo can’t be saved. It’s on a downward spiral.
Tom, on February 2nd, 2009, said:
Yahoo mail is excellent, easy to use.I would not like to switch over to something else.Let´s see if Yahoo can compete against Google now when they have a new CEO.
Rick, on February 7th, 2009, said:
Good luck in your new role.
Congratulations!
Gordon, on February 25th, 2009, said:
Good luck in developing new features and overall improving Flickr and Delicious. These services are very good and are one of the leaders in their niches, but if you manage to improve them and expand into new niches, that would be very good.
You should do your best to compete with others (especially Google :) )
Joe Budden, on March 6th, 2009, said:
Congratulations… good luck with your endeavors!
Mac, on May 23rd, 2009, said:
Lets see what new changes we see at Yahoo, the search market seems to be slipping out of hands though they can pull it off with some new services like Flickr
mark, on June 29th, 2009, said:
yahoo continues to slide and I think the MS deal was the best opportunity and they blew it.
Flint, on July 1st, 2009, said:
Congratulations lol, I would have thought you would have announced this around April 1st? My mistake.
Nieruchomosci Gryfino, on July 2nd, 2009, said:
I get it that you’re posting less frequently because you’re occupied with the new project but I’m only hoping you’re not going to completely leave this site!
Cynthia, on July 4th, 2009, said:
Step 1, check the date. Not April 1st? Step 2, check Yahoo!’s records. Nope. Step 3, read the article and remember how much I like delicious. Such a great product.
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