Yahoo and the world as we know it.

Its pretty crazy when it comes down to it. You look at the web and how far its come. There have been giants in this industry that you would suspect would have been around forever. They have always been the forefront of the activity and being the best of the best. Yahoo used to be such a giant. It was one of the greats. It was so great that it started to eat other little companies. Some of these companies I loved dearly. I don't know if anyone remembers the email company RocketMail. Well I was one of its users. I still have my rocketmail account but its a yahoo account. I love my rocketmail account. I loved rocketmail because it was so differant. I had new and innovative ways of doing email and it was pretty too. Then Yahoo came along and swallowed it. Alot of stuff got lost in the shuffle when that happened. I still use the account because I like the url in the email. Its neat. I occasionally have someone ask me if they can get a rocketmail account. And I sadly have to say no. Yahoo ate it.

Geocities was another company that yahoo ate and "improved" I never felt that they did a very good job. I liked geocities because it was also differant with the whole neighborhoods and address thing. But when yahoo ate it up bye-bye went that innovative idea. Now you just have geocities and your user name. :P

Yahoo has been eating up websites and little places that had greater ideas than them for years. And Yahoo is now struggling to keep up with Google. Google came up with the best solution for email I have seen in a great deal of time. All of a sudden when GMail came along Yahoo was losing users faster than you can say boo hoo.... They had to act fast so bye-bye went the metered email space and a brand new mail box look was invented. But yahoo's may be pretty but it still does not compete with GMail. GMail users have more options than Yahoo can even consider coming up with.

Threaded mail, pop and imap... gmail is faster and much more reliable...

I read today that there were alot of layoffs with Yahoo. I am not surprised at all. Yahoo has always tried to take on more than it can chew.