Marissa Mayer Makes First Yahoo Acquisition: Stamped

Great. Hiring your buddies by acquihiring their failing iPhone app startup.

Stamp's blog post about the deal: <a href="http://stamped.com/learn-more" rel="nofollow">http://stamped.com/learn-more</a>

Wondering why a talented group of developers that left one large Silicon Valley-based search company to form a startup would work for another large Silicon Valley search/media company.

Stamped was a very well-designed, well-thought-out app, but its failure to take off proves no one has cracked the "anti-yelp" recommendation app yet. Someone's going to figure it out.

Stamped was an awesome (and beautiful) product. Sad to see it go.

It's great they are putting mobile at the forefront of their strategic direction.<p>I don't think Yahoo's web presence can be salvaged - they have just fallen too far behind Google, Facebook, and the multitude of other leading social platforms.<p>But mobile is a chance for Yahoo to reset it's identity, it's brand, it's UI, it's relationship to users. It has a chance to become cool again.

Congratulations to the Stamped team and good luck to Yahoo.<p>On another topic, has anyone else noticed Marissa's hands in that photo?

What's up with this infatuation with Marissa Mayer? I don't remember reading about "Mark Zuckerberg acquiring Instagram" or "Steve Ballmer buying Yammer". Sheesh.<p>EDIT: Wow that was quick, three downvotes in less than five minutes. Must have missed the memo that she's the new Steve Jobs, or something.