Comments on: Flickr Takes Some Shots from Yahoo Layoffs http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/04/flickr-takes-some-shots-from-yahoo-layoffs.html Internet Marketing News Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:38:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Flickr Is Target Of Yahoo’s Latest Layoffs | Move with Mind http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/04/flickr-takes-some-shots-from-yahoo-layoffs.html/comment-page-1#comment-74081 Flickr Is Target Of Yahoo’s Latest Layoffs | Move with Mind Sat, 23 May 2009 06:51:22 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/?p=9969#comment-74081 [...] Comments [...] [...] Comments [...]

]]> By: Search Engine Marketing News - May 4, 2009 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/04/flickr-takes-some-shots-from-yahoo-layoffs.html/comment-page-1#comment-73327 Search Engine Marketing News - May 4, 2009 Tue, 12 May 2009 16:06:49 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/?p=9969#comment-73327 [...] Flickr Takes Some Shots from Yahoo Layoffs Frankly, cutting the Flickr team is a bit of a head-scratcher: That group is one of the few pockets of future-thinking tinkerers at Yahoo, especially when it comes to building new media experiences around “social objects” such as photos. [...] [...] Flickr Takes Some Shots from Yahoo Layoffs Frankly, cutting the Flickr team is a bit of a head-scratcher: That group is one of the few pockets of future-thinking tinkerers at Yahoo, especially when it comes to building new media experiences around “social objects” such as photos. [...]

]]> By: Byrne http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/04/flickr-takes-some-shots-from-yahoo-layoffs.html/comment-page-1#comment-72757 Byrne Fri, 01 May 2009 02:59:06 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/?p=9969#comment-72757 There was a great article about Bartz in Fortune a while ago (http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/15/technology/fortt_yahoo.fortune/). Basically, she's a non-nonsense type, and the kind of person who would see Flickr as nonsense. That's too bad, but it's also what her shareholders want. They'd rather Yahoo! buy dreamers for millions in stock once their dreams come true than pay them thousands in salary to do the dreaming on Yahoo's dime and let Yahoo keep the millions. <em>Byrne's last blog post..<a href='http://byrneseyeview.tumblr.com/post/101859181' rel="nofollow">Darren Slatten Is Right About Twitter For The Wrong Reasons</a></em> There was a great article about Bartz in Fortune a while ago (http://money.cnn.com/2009/04/15/technology/fortt_yahoo.fortune/). Basically, she’s a non-nonsense type, and the kind of person who would see Flickr as nonsense.

That’s too bad, but it’s also what her shareholders want. They’d rather Yahoo! buy dreamers for millions in stock once their dreams come true than pay them thousands in salary to do the dreaming on Yahoo’s dime and let Yahoo keep the millions.

Byrne’s last blog post..Darren Slatten Is Right About Twitter For The Wrong Reasons

]]> By: Art in the news: a focus on Flickr « media meets art http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/04/flickr-takes-some-shots-from-yahoo-layoffs.html/comment-page-1#comment-72750 Art in the news: a focus on Flickr « media meets art Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:42:39 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/?p=9969#comment-72750 [...] of the economy. Flickr took some big blows when Yahoo laid off about 600-700 people this week. Ouch. Numerous stories on the web are better than this Marketing Pilgrim one, but the overall facts [...] [...] of the economy. Flickr took some big blows when Yahoo laid off about 600-700 people this week. Ouch. Numerous stories on the web are better than this Marketing Pilgrim one, but the overall facts [...]

]]> By: Denis http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2009/04/flickr-takes-some-shots-from-yahoo-layoffs.html/comment-page-1#comment-72749 Denis Thu, 30 Apr 2009 23:38:15 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/?p=9969#comment-72749 Hey great article, I think that situation in Yahoo is not the best. They needed to be sold to Microsoft some months ago. Hey great article, I think that situation in Yahoo is not the best. They needed to be sold to Microsoft some months ago.

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