Just say "No" [to Yahoo Axis]

I haven't installed Yahoo! Axis, and I don't like yahoo as a company (especially not after what they did to geocities).<p>But calling on people to say 'no' to a product for these reasons is a weird move.<p>If it is crap then say why the product is crap, not that the promotion, the logo or all the other stuff surrounding it are crap. What is wrong with the product?<p>And if all that is that wrong, by all means, still install it.<p>See for yourself, evaluate it and say: 'yes, this really is crap', and for these very specific reasons. After all, it's Yahoo, it would be surprising if they suddenly came up with this absolutely great product. But at least install it and evaluate it if you're going to tell people not to use it.<p>Apropos logos, that red-and-white logo has some interesting associations.

I'm really tired of dcurtis' blog. Its objective seems to be to be the first to criticize anything and everything. No insight, no critical thought, just hate.<p>Yes, this thing is kind of dumb and nobody will use it. But why not relax and let time take its course? By Friday afternoon, everyone will be back to forgetting that there is even a company called Yahoo.

What a coincidence, another baseless Dustin Curtis blog post making it's way to Hacker News once more. I have nothing personally against Mr Curtis, but this post just topped the "Twitter is watching everything you do" post Dustin published a week ago. Is Dustin just sitting at his computer waiting for people to screw up like Yahoo! so he can publicly vilify them?<p>Looks like Yahoo! is still the poster child for hate, only second to the PHP language of course. Fair enough Yahoo! Axis is a crappy product and perhaps someone should have said something, it's easier said than done. It takes a lot of failed products to release something good, Google are a prime example of this, look how many failed products they've released people should have internally said no to; Google Answers, Google Wave, Google Notebook, Google Buzz... Just to name a few.<p>It's a very common thing for an Internet company like Yahoo! knee deep in bureaucracy to release crappy products, and it appears as though it is a very common thing to hate on Yahoo!

I'll agree that the title of this probably should have been "Someone should have spoken up a long time ago."<p>But aside from that, this post showed me the TOS which I had missed earlier. I can't believe something like that slipped past all the people who worked on this.

Of course, the Axis Powers were Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Fascist Italy. Plus the site name's black and steel lettering has vaguely foreboding, retro-fascist feel. Or maybe it is a Star Wars Imperial vibe. Either way, just saying that is a little unsettling. It isn't a happy brand.

Not only does the logo look like Adobe's, it also looks suspiciously like AXIS Jiu Jitsu's logo (see <a href="http://www.axisjj.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.axisjj.com/</a> -- take the central triangle, rotate it left and mirror it on the y-axis.)

Looks like someone's trying to get another corporate employee fired through criticism and a lack of practical advice.

I think what irritates me most about Axis is that they had to slap their obnoxious "Yahoo!" logo on it. It just irks me whenever I see it. The way the text is slinky link makes me think of children's toys.

A browser extension for a search engine is so 2000's

I just installed Axis add-on to Firefox and my browser instantly slowed to a crawl. I have about 20 tabs open, but still. I removed it and everything is back to top speed again.

The T&#38;C bit made me laugh.<p>I wonder if they'll fix it in the next 24hrs.<p>Poor Yahoo.