Jerry Yang recently posted about where Yahoo is heading.
We’re placing our bets in three big multi-year objectives… 1. Become the starting point for the most consumers… 2. Become the must-buy for advertisers… 3. Deliver open, industry-leading platforms that attract the most publishers and developers…
Our new decision-making framework also informed what we’d no longer invest in. To start, we’ve de-emphasized our focus on subscription music in favor of ad-supported music, migrated Yahoo! Photos to Flickr, we intend to transition Yahoo! 360 to a more integrated Yahoo! “profile” experience, we’ve closed Yahoo! Podcasts.
Here’s a translation of each of those paragraphs:
I don’t think that anyone, least of all me, will miss my Y360 page.