It strikes me as a company hastily covering its butt. I highly suspect that their original plan was to shut it down completely, given that it doesn't have ads that I know of, it doesn't seem to have extra-features paid accounts, and I don't think there's anything that sponsors pay them either -- unless there's something I don't know about, it would have been a very useful thing for the users, a data mine for them (who knows if/how they were using it), and entirely possibly sucking up money and not making any income, let alone profit.
The leak looked to me like a genuine leak, especially because of the high-level Yahoo guy saying that once he found out who leaked the slide, they'd be just as gone as Delicious.
And after the upswelling of internet outrage, the "No, no, we're totally not shutting it down, we're going to sell it off, stay tuned for further developments, that's totally what we were planning all along" strikes me as their expert in internet marketing telling them "Look, if you say we're shutting it down, we're going to get the wrath of the whole internet upon us, the wrath of the whole internet is already upon us, people don't like us for shutting down Geocities, people love Delicious a lot more, and they're only getting madder the longer we go, basically your only option is to try to find a buyer."
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Date: 2010-12-21 08:52 am (UTC)The leak looked to me like a genuine leak, especially because of the high-level Yahoo guy saying that once he found out who leaked the slide, they'd be just as gone as Delicious.
And after the upswelling of internet outrage, the "No, no, we're totally not shutting it down, we're going to sell it off, stay tuned for further developments, that's totally what we were planning all along" strikes me as their expert in internet marketing telling them "Look, if you say we're shutting it down, we're going to get the wrath of the whole internet upon us, the wrath of the whole internet is already upon us, people don't like us for shutting down Geocities, people love Delicious a lot more, and they're only getting madder the longer we go, basically your only option is to try to find a buyer."