For a while now Yahoo has acted like an immature teenager, that doesn’t know what they want. Their lack of unified vision and product synergy has put them on a very rough spot. After reading NewTeeVee’s review for the new Yahoo Video site, it only makes me sad:
Also baffling is the lack of promotion for all the other things you can do with your videos — on Yahoo — once you’ve uploaded it. The only mention of the online editing capabilities of Yahoo’s Jumpcut is at the bottom of the page. Again, this is a wasted opportunity; why not put that in big, bold letters? “Hey, we have an easy way for you to edit your video and here’s how!” Furthermore, even though I was signed in to Yahoo Video, when I clicked on “Edit video with Jumpcut,” it took me to the Jumpcut section, but didn’t recognize me. I had to sign in again.
Jerry Yang should round up the troops(again) and show them a Mighty Ducks movie(or any other sports movie out there) so that they can appreciate the value of team work(rather than gathering to announce layoffs).
Why would they buy Jumpcut if not to integrate it and aggressively market it against YouTube? There is some serious lack of communication between departments at Yahoo.
When they acquired Jumpcut, I though Yahoo would accelerate desktop-like web apps to the tipping point since they could reach mass market faster with Yahoo’s strong user base. Instead it has done so so, not really surpassing the 200k daily visitors(according to compete.com).
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