{"id":62,"date":"2006-09-22T21:58:25","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T21:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/2006\/09\/yahoo-sucks-up-youthful-innovation\/"},"modified":"2006-11-02T20:44:02","modified_gmt":"2006-11-02T20:44:02","slug":"yahoo-sucks-up-youthful-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/2006\/09\/yahoo-sucks-up-youthful-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo! Sucks Up Youthful Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" alt=\"Facebook logo\" id=\"image51\" src=\"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/facebook-logo.gif\" \/>Just weeks after Facebook <a title=\"Techdirt: Microsoft Says Hey, We Can Do Social Networking Ads Too\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20060823\/1014201.shtml\">signed<\/a> a hastily-prepared Microsoft ad deal and <a title=\"kera.name Articles \u00c2\u00bb Facebook, by George Orwell\" href=\"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/2006\/09\/facebook-by-george-orwell\/\">went super-stalker on its users<\/a> by trying to enter the big scene with new high-scale features, it&#039;s going as far as to consider <a title=\"Techdirt: Facebook Ready To Seal The Deal -- But For Only $1 Billion\" href=\"http:\/\/techdirt.com\/articles\/20060921\/080234.shtml\">selling to Yahoo!<\/a>. Apparently a sale has been on the cards for a while although it&#039;s the first I&#039;d heard of it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#039;s not entirely surprising news: all the little kids <a title=\"Tom Archer's Blog : Microsoft Acquires SysInternals\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/tomarcher\/archive\/2006\/07\/18\/669894.aspx\">sell out<\/a> when they get big. But as a Facebook user I&#039;m concerned that our tidy little Facebook home will soon become an ad-infested portal full of &#039;entertainment&#039;, &#039;health&#039; and &#039;gossip&#039; vermin with the Yahoo! logo plastered all over it.<\/p>\n<p>Sad, sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just weeks after Facebook signed a hastily-prepared Microsoft ad deal and went super-stalker on its users by trying to enter the big scene with new high-scale features, it&#039;s going as far as to consider selling to Yahoo!. Apparently a sale has been on the cards for a while although it&#039;s the first I&#039;d heard of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[15,9,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kera.name\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}