The way they handled the leak was idiotic and short sighted. They should blame themselves, not the press.<p>Their first reply should have clarified that Delicious was not going to be shut down. Furthermore, they should have clearly stated that other prominent properties (like Flickr) were safe and weren't going to be shut down either.<p>Their initial response ("[we] plan to shut down some products in the coming months") was self-inflicted FUD, which basically stated that they were going to shut down whatever they saw fit. Not the best way to instill confidence in your products.<p>I suspect they panicked, saw the huge backlash from the community, and quickly came up with the plan of selling delicious and claiming that they were misunderstood from the get go.
If Yahoo were really planning to sell Delicious all along, why would they sack everyone?
<a href="http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/12/16/delicious" rel="nofollow">http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/12/16/delicious</a>
Whoever here wants to start an alternative to TechCrunch that doesn't dengenerate into crap, say <i>aye</i>. Hell, even a well-researched blog would kill techcrunch, mashable and all those shameless corporate/startup whores who pose as journalist.<p>Although...Yahoo should have came out and dispelled the rumours as soon as they circulated or released their own press release as soon as the presentation was finished.<p>I think both parties here are to blame; journalists (or supposed journalistst) should hold themselves to a higher standard and actually investigate instead of merely reporting rumours, and corporations should make sure they control their marketing/media message.
Bah, this story is as bad as the TC article.<p>Just more blog spam with no added insight. You can get everything you need from the blogpost, and the HN comments.
Carol Bartz should step down as CEO, she doesn't have the balls to run a company like yahoo. She was appointed to bring yahoo down and is doing a great job at that.