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Re: Were Techmeme and Sphere too greedy?

Mathew — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 23:50:11 -0000

Thanks, Scott. I turned off trackbacks because I was getting way too much spam.

Re: Were Techmeme and Sphere too greedy?

Scott Lawton (Blogcosm) — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 17:01:14 -0000

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!).

Re: Were Techmeme and Sphere too greedy?

Mark Evans — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 19:46:32 -0000

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

Re: Were Techmeme and Sphere too greedy?

rod / techfold.com — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:33:51 -0000

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!

Re: Were Techmeme and Sphere too greedy?

Mathew — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:18:25 -0000

Good one, Gabe :-)

Re: Were Techmeme and Sphere too greedy?

Gabe — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:10:54 -0000

What's a "meme-tracker"?

Re: Were Techmeme and Sphere too greedy?

Paul Montgomery — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:53:55 -0000

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.

Re: Were Techmeme and Sphere too greedy?

engtech — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:51:16 -0000

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.

Re: Were Techmeme and Sphere too greedy?

TDavid — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 12:06:07 -0000

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?