Comments on: Bartz yanks Yahoo's tiller; will the battleship turn?

After a six-week crash course in Yahoo, Bartz is ready to start pushing the company in new directions, starting with management that reflects her priorities.

[JCPayne]

I actually tried Yahoo IM again... OMG. What the heck happened? Yahoo IM used to be a nice slim and trim app. Not it is bloated with spam and way too much "make-up" (via the skinning feature.) Yahoo neeeds to strip a lot of bulk out of that app.

[JCPayne]

Now it is bloated with spam and way too much "make-up" (via the skinning feature.) She's got plenty of work ahead of her.

[renGek]

Yahoo lost its way a long time ago. It was an innovative company and then all the financial people saw a huge profit opportunity and reshaped the company to be run like an investment banking firm. All the people that now poison the company's decision is based on traditional financial paradims which never should have been applied to a company like yahoo. They were content on making predictable quarterly earnings to satisfy the stock prices and over time forgot to innovate. And now its a me too company. It has no intellectual leaders with a set of big ones to drive the company. Everybody just seems to sit around and not rock the boat.

[JetJaguar]

Yahoo reminds me of a Matt Groenig "Life in Hell" cartoon I saw years ago. Akbar and Jeff had taken over a Seaworld type park, and installed a snack bar ever 15 feet, and jammed it up with cheesy glitzy junk.