On: Yahoo is Shutting Down Del.icio.us

[lepht]

Google has their loss-leader products that exist for the benefit of the online community, but I don't think that this is (necessarily) Yahoo lacking that benevolence.

Let's face it, Google has a lot more capital to back non-profitable products. Yahoo supported Delicious for as long as they could, but ultimately it's hard to justify liabilities like expensive, non-profitable projects to your shareholders.

Google can do it because they've proven that their strategy stuffs the coffers regardless.

[eli → lepht]

Especially when you look at the vast number of unprofitable products they offer. (Pipes and YQL come to mind)

[lepht → eli]

Pipes is a great example, with even more of a niche audience than any of the non-profitable Google products I can think of, aside from maybe Refine.

[cscheid → lepht]

Who's to say Pipes isn't getting the axe either?

[lepht → cscheid]

...The slides from the Yahoo meeting that show what products they're axing?

(Yahoo is.)