the fabulous freak http://www.joaoalmeida.info From Software Development to Photography with a few other geek oriented things in between Fri, 18 May 2012 14:31:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 TheFabulousFreakhttp://feedburner.google.com Why big companies are poison to the startups… http://www.joaoalmeida.info/2012/05/why-big-companies-are-poison-to-the-startups/ http://www.joaoalmeida.info/2012/05/why-big-companies-are-poison-to-the-startups/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 14:31:58 +0000 João Almeida http://www.joaoalmeida.info/?p=1562 read more »]]>

“If you cant beat laser cat, you probably deserve to die.”

via How Yahoo Killed Flickr and Lost the Internet

Great, great article at Gizmodo. It’s the story of Flickr and Yahoo but it could also be the story of Delicious, Upcoming, Jaiku, Dodgeball or many other promising startups being swallowed by Yahoo, Google or Microsoft. Most of the times big companies don’t care about community and innovation, they only care about monetizing the startup contents and integrating them into their big mashup of apps. That’s why Flickr lost the train on almost everything since being bought by Yahoo, infected by the disease of its parent company.

 

 

 

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