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If you really want to improve the perception of the Yahoo! brand, you need to make HardGay an official part of your company's imaging. Why this didn't happen years ago, I have no idea!
HardGay Goes To Yahoo!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSD8edviajE
since the PlayStation is an even larger turn
Are you saying the new playstation will be the PS 720?
Yes, according to the live stream on GiantBomb, Microsoft's console will implement a "used fee". When you play a game, you will have to install it completely to the hard drive and it will be locked to that user account. If you want someone else to play it, they will have to pay a fee of an unknown amount.
This now only fucks over the used market, but fucks over people lending games to their friends... worse, even their most loyal customers. If you pre-order games for full price so you can play them on launch day and never sell your games back to the used market and never buy used games, you are still fucked if you, say, have a family of four and not only you, but your kids and wife enjoy playing games. Figure ten bucks per account per game? Now that $65 (with tax) game is suddenly $95 or more. And that's before you've bought the $40 worth of DLC.
I'd like to be optimistic and say this all sounds like an incredible boon for the future of PC gaming, but the vast majority of consumers don't give a fuck, don't know a fuck, and will just let themselves get rolled.
This is the first time I've cared about or enjoyed a piece of Onion content in more than half a decade. Thank you, SternisheFan!
I don't think you understand how the market works.
Five billion dollars profit each year for the last several years isn't good -- it's "stagnation".
From what I've seen, Flickr is where you post your photos mostly for yourself. It's a storage service, primarily. I mean, it's not like people are spending their time socializing and perusing Flickr unless they're specifically looking for something and Google Image Search has landed them there.
Tumblr is not a photo storage service and is primarily used for people to dump images of stupid shit that doesn't belong to them and doesn't really have much in the way of social features, either.
I really don't see any relation between the two, other than they're both on the internet and both are spelled stupidly.
Let's be honest, here...
The type of person who uses Tumblr is also the type of person who _already_ has a Yahoo! account and spends half their day logged in here playing Puzzle Pirates or some shit.
Really? The few times I've been unlucky enough to stumble upon a Tumblr page, I don't see anything fucking social about it whatsoever. it's just someone spewing shit into a feed with no comments or discussions or anything. It's just a place to dump your stupid shit and link people to because . . . I guess they're supposed to give a fuck about your stupid shit.
If the people who use Tumblr are "technically literate", I'd hate to see what people who aren't produce...
And if you don't willingly give it up, you're paranoid and/or a terrorist.
I would rather pay for services than give up my personal information, but you'll notice nobody allows that. They'd all rather spam you with ads and sell your personal data than just directly trade you a service for a buck.
I've never actually spent any time at Tumblr and didn't realize it was "popular" until this whole "the guy who created it is a certified genius blah blah blah" thing started being hyped in the media in the past few months.
As best I understand, it is a streaming-twitter sort of thing, but that is not actually used for interaction or new content or anything. It is pretty much just used for people to link or post other people's content to in their own stream that other people can view or subscribe to or something.
I guess the best comparison might be "an even shittier Pintrest"... and about as dumb.
The only thing stupider than a company trying to chase a trend that has a clear finite time for relevance is chasing a trend that is only really a hot trend in its own mind.
Apparently they have a bunch of users (well, tens of millions -- nothing absolutely astonishing or anything), so I guess the real purchase here is a mix of "durp durp Tumblr is a hip brand and will rub off on us in the mind of the public" and "we want to market shit to teens with emo hair and tight pants who are about to grow their fist pube".
It reminds me a lot of Dell trying to be cool by buying Alienware, when most people saw Alienware as expensive stupid shit for suckers and Dell didn't see an ounce of "cool" rub off on them for their effort.
Here's a pretty good example of a Tumblr "blog":
Yahoo is trying to buy "cool" by totally wildly insanely overspending to buy a "brand" that is only "cool" to a few hipsters and largely not given a fuck by most of the internet. This is one of those moments where everyone in the world says "what the fuck are you doing?!" while a company just plods along with the most absurd of plans. Yahoo! buying Tumblr is like watching your teacher or parents try to rap and also a bit like watching someone start dating a miserable loser who thinks he is hot shit and has convinced your friend that he's hot shit, but everyone around them sees the self-hype and bullshit for what it is and can't believe their eyes.
On the other hand, I guess the perfect match for a brand primarily known for spewing out syndicated AP news feeds and pumping spam into mailboxes is a website that provides a service that is pretty much just used to spew spam into blog-like threads.
Yahoo! and Tumblr... two "don't give-a-fucks" that we can all not-give-a-fuck together.
None, because 35 hours are chicks showing their tits and making vapid "replies" to popular videos. Another 25 hours are chicks with 20 minute videos doing makeup tutorials, 20 hours are chicks coming home from shopping trips and showing what they bought (I'm serious, this is apparently a fucking "thing", now). The remaining 20 are idiots attempting to make viral videos, but possessing no talent. Or jackholes in their basement trying to be the "next big star" like the other 800 obnoxious teenagers with cult following that always makeup the "top 100 of youtube", but just make you think less of humanity as a whole to know people watch them.
I like G+ because I can organize my social circles and contacts without having to be social. I don't give a fuck about a feed of what people are fucking doing, reading, thinking, wishing, vomiting out into text and I don't care enough about anything I'd share to actually share it with a bunch of people who aren't going to give half a shit. I wouldn't say "for hermits". I would say "for people who aren't vapid attention whores and don't need to share or view everything everyone ever does at every second of the day and have things to actually do"...
I always thought it was so weird when people used shit like MSN or Yahoo! for their chat. When someone gave me that as their IM contact, I would just tell them "look, I'm probably never going to end up talking to you, then, because I'm not going to setup an account on a proprietary service just to talk to one person".
What do you mean "whether or not they're totally going to drop it"...?
They're replacing their chat client with Hangouts and that won't be supporting XMPP. How much more dropped can you get than that?
it would impact my ability to chat with about two thirds or more of the people I know . . . on the other hand, I chat with people via IM (outside of work, that is) all of maybe two months a month on average. IM was a big thing for about a decade, but in the last few years, it seems that most people have either gone full dumbass with "txting" or just use email. So I guess I kind of dislike this on one hand, but don't give a fuck when it comes to actual practical impact.
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