how to do this without wrecking the tumble user experience is a huge challenge. One of the great things about tumblr timelines is information purity (and great curation by its users).
iirc yahoo's strongest services are sports, news, finance, and mail. these would all seem to disrupt the feel and information purity of tumble if done carelessly.
maybe encouraging sharing/linking and extrapolating on yahoo assets by means of great tumble integration into yahoo services and vice versa could benefit both yahoo and tumblr users?
Would you say you've noticed how the YouTube user experience has changed over the past five years? I don't mean whether you like it personally or not, but whether the overall YT-as-site UX has been ruined in their acquisition by Google.
I think we're all inured a bit to site shutdowns through acquisitions, meaning that acq's have taken on a largely negative set of assumptions, but it doesn't have to be that way.
First, I would posit that Google+ encroaching into Youtube has been a negative development.
You say that "it doesn't have to be that way" w.r.t. acquisitions having a negative impact on an acquired service, and I agree that in theory, there really is no way the product has to be damaged. But there are agendas and incentives, and more often than not, we have seen first hand that the acquired products do get damaged. Maybe we can get lucky at times like Youtube, but our scar tissue didn't form from nothing.
> Would you say you've noticed how the YouTube user experience has changed over the past five years? I don't mean whether you like it personally or not, but whether the overall YT-as-site UX has been ruined in their acquisition by Google.
1. Stupid pre-rolls everywhere.
2. DMCA takedowns / country restrictions.
3. Weak community.
4. Nagging for Google+ integration.
The UX is pretty horrible. They just get away because content is king and are 1st movers. Nowadays I increasingly find more, or higher quality, stuff on Vimeo though.
iirc yahoo's strongest services are sports, news, finance, and mail. these would all seem to disrupt the feel and information purity of tumble if done carelessly.
maybe encouraging sharing/linking and extrapolating on yahoo assets by means of great tumble integration into yahoo services and vice versa could benefit both yahoo and tumblr users?