DISQUS

Mathew's comments: Were Techmeme and Sphere too greedy?

  • TDavid · 2 years ago
    Remember for a short time anyway, Yahoo put blogger coverage next to their search results. What happened to that? There isn't anything I can see about Blogtracker that is worth paying $5m for (see signature link for full review).

    Yahoo continues to make bad decisions. This one falls on Jerry Yang. Wonder what other also rans he'll be buying in his 100 day plan?
  • engtech · 2 years ago
    It's funny though how Yahoo has some killer properties under their umbrella in Flickr and Delicious, not to mention hiring the guy who wrote Firebug. Yahoo Pipes is actually pretty cool.

    They need to spread the mojo, and learn from their successful startups and apply that everywhere.
  • Paul Montgomery · 2 years ago
    I think Techmeme is worth more than $5 million. But the fact that Yahoo is now out of the market for Techmeme maybe knocks their valuation down some - and by extension the other News 2.0 players.
  • Gabe · 2 years ago
    What's a "meme-tracker"?
  • Mathew · 2 years ago
    Good one, Gabe :-)
  • rod / techfold.com · 2 years ago
    Yay, another property for Yahoo to not integrate. Prepare to watch Buzztracker do more or less the same thing it always has for the next three years!
  • Mark Evans · 2 years ago
    From what I can tell from Gabe's approach to Techmeme, it would be a major surprise if he actually decided to sell it. My take is he's pretty happy running his own business for the time being.

    Mark
  • Scott Lawton (Blogcosm) · 2 years ago
    I didn't see a trackback URL so here's a manual one. I quoted your view of Techmeme in my BuzzTracker roundup, linked to Yodel Anecdotal in support of the "hiring" theory, and excerpted a few other points I found. Sort of a manual meme track (i.e. not very scalable!).
  • Mathew · 2 years ago
    Thanks, Scott. I turned off trackbacks because I was getting way too much spam.