<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<rss version="2.0"
	xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
	xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"
	xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
	xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
	xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/"
	xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/"
	>

<channel>
	<title>mathewingram.com/work &#187; plan</title>
	<atom:link href="http://www.mathewingram.com/work/tag/plan/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" />
	<link>http://www.mathewingram.com/work</link>
	<description>... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 15:34:04 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<language>en</language>
	<sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod>
	<sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency>
	<generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1</generator>
		<item>
		<title>Yahoo: Somebody set us up the bomb!</title>
		<link>http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/09/28/yahoo-somebody-set-us-up-the-bomb/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/09/28/yahoo-somebody-set-us-up-the-bomb/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mathew</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social networks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yahoo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yang]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/09/28/yahoo-somebody-set-us-up-the-bomb/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was really hoping that the much talked-about meeting of senior Yahoo types that is taking place in Sunnyvale today &#8212; which Mike Arrington describes as a meeting of the &#8220;leadership team&#8221; &#8212; would turn out to be a barn-burner, a firecracker thrown into the sleepy boardrooms of the Internet behemoth that might get some [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="tweetmeme_button" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px;">
			<a href="http://api.tweetmeme.com/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mathewingram.com%2Fwork%2F2007%2F09%2F28%2Fyahoo-somebody-set-us-up-the-bomb%2F"><br />
				<img src="http://api.tweetmeme.com/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mathewingram.com%2Fwork%2F2007%2F09%2F28%2Fyahoo-somebody-set-us-up-the-bomb%2F&amp;source=mathewi&amp;style=normal&amp;b=2" height="61" width="50" /><br />
			</a>
		</div>
<p>I was really hoping that the much talked-about meeting of senior Yahoo types that is taking place in Sunnyvale today &#8212; which Mike Arrington <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/27/yahoo-leadership-meeting-tomorrow-premium-services-to-be-de-emphasized/">describes as</a> a meeting of the &#8220;leadership team&#8221; &#8212; would turn out to be a barn-burner, a firecracker thrown into the sleepy boardrooms of the Internet behemoth that might get some people moving again.</p>
<p>After reading Kara Swisher&#8217;s description of what is <a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20070928/day-73-the-sleepy-attack-of-the-yahoo-vice-presidents/">likely to happen</a>, however, I&#8217;m not sure I should be hoping for much of anything. Several hundred vice-presidents doesn&#8217;t exactly qualify as a &#8220;leadership team,&#8221; as far as I&#8217;m concerned. In fact, calling it a team at all kind of distorts the meaning of the word beyond all recognition.</p>
<p>Technically, it&#8217;s possible that something dramatically positive will come out of the meeting, and that it will add some real meat to Yahoo&#8217;s 100-day plan to turn things around. But I&#8217;m not holding my breath. And I fear that Valleywag&#8217;s <a href="http://valleywag.com/tech/yahoo/top+secret-project-apax-to-save-jerry-yangs-bacon-304246.php">source may be right</a> when he or she says of the 100-day idea:</p>
<blockquote><p>The punchline is that there is no plan. Yang was just saying it in a conversational, rally-the-troops sort of way, not realizing that the Street and the Valley were going to to mark that date in red ink and count the days&#8230; The first rule of being CEO: don&#8217;t set your company up to fail.</p></blockquote>
<p>If the plan boils down to &#8220;rewrite our ad-serving code again to try and make it more like Google&#8217;s,&#8221; then I fear for Yahoo&#8217;s future even more than I did before.</p>
<p><b>Note:</b> <i>for those who might not get the reference in the headline of this post, it&#8217;s from the &#8220;all your base are belong to us&#8221; meme, more information about which can be found <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_us">here</a></i>.</p>
]]></content:encoded>
			<wfw:commentRss>http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/09/28/yahoo-somebody-set-us-up-the-bomb/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
		</item>
	</channel>
</rss>

