Monday, December 03, 2007

I used to use Yahoo...

Steve Trefethen's posting about Yahoo is pretty dead on.  I used to use the various Yahoo apps and services, but I have slowly replaced them with the various services from Google.  I think  the problem was the development team saw too many bright and shiny objects and decided to implement them.

Yahoo's email is an over-developed mess.  It's trying to be the web version of Outlook.  Even Microsoft's web version of Outlook isn't trying to be a clone of the desktop version of Outlook.  With web-based email, I want to get in and read it in as simple a manner as possible.  Thanks to the GMail Manager plugin, I have notifications when email comes into my various gmail and Google Apps email accounts get mail.

I don't want yet another proprietary IM client.  There's nothing wrong with Yahoo's IM, it's just that no one that I IM with uses it.  I prefer to use Trillian, one client to serve them all.

It's kind of sad.  I remember 10, 12 years ago when Yahoo was the only game in town for searching.  It got slower and slower to use and when Altavista came out, I dropped Yahoo for speed and simplicity of a fast search app.  And I stayed with Altavista until Google came out of nowhere and changed the search engine game as we know it. 

1 comment:

  1. Hi Christopher,
    Thanks for the link. I hope Yahoo can turn things around though I'd we're no longer the target audience so perhaps it won't happen.

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