Comments on: No, actually, I don’t yahoo. http://www.spectrecollie.com/archives/2005/12/no-actually-i-dont-yahoo/ Chuck Jordan's Personal Weblog Mon, 01 Dec 2008 17:23:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Chuck http://www.spectrecollie.com/archives/2005/12/no-actually-i-dont-yahoo/#comment-262 Chuck Wed, 14 Dec 2005 05:59:51 +0000 http://www.spectrecollie.com/?p=186#comment-262 You got that right. If they'd made some kind of clever pun on the .us extension, that would've been vaguely humoro.us, but as it is they just have a dumb site name poorly punctuated. I wonder if Yahoo bought delicious just to distract people from the cutesy missing "e" from Flickr. And if they bought Flickr just to distract people from the dumb-ass exclamation point at the end of Yahoo! You got that right. If they’d made some kind of clever pun on the .us extension, that would’ve been vaguely humoro.us, but as it is they just have a dumb site name poorly punctuated.

I wonder if Yahoo bought delicious just to distract people from the cutesy missing “e” from Flickr. And if they bought Flickr just to distract people from the dumb-ass exclamation point at the end of Yahoo!

]]> By: Rain http://www.spectrecollie.com/archives/2005/12/no-actually-i-dont-yahoo/#comment-261 Rain Wed, 14 Dec 2005 05:39:46 +0000 http://www.spectrecollie.com/?p=186#comment-261 Here's something sad: Furl.net, a site that does the same thing as delicious, was bought by Looksmart last year, and the guy who started the site had been courted by Yahoo!, but decided to sell to Looksmart instead. Smart move! Not. LS, in their infinite wisdom, managed to do absolutely nothing with Furl, and delicious soon overpassed Furl in users, word of mouth, and now, no doubt, price. I still use Furl and not delicious, but not out of any sense of loyalty. I just think the way del.icio.us spells their URL is the most annoying thing ever. Here’s something sad: Furl.net, a site that does the same thing as delicious, was bought by Looksmart last year, and the guy who started the site had been courted by Yahoo!, but decided to sell to Looksmart instead. Smart move! Not.

LS, in their infinite wisdom, managed to do absolutely nothing with Furl, and delicious soon overpassed Furl in users, word of mouth, and now, no doubt, price.

I still use Furl and not delicious, but not out of any sense of loyalty. I just think the way del.icio.us spells their URL is the most annoying thing ever.

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