Yahoo has survived with its technology

This video is from the Yahoo YouTube Channel. I find it relevant to this post because Yahoo gives hackers the chance to talk about what they're learning and possibly offer something to the company. Innovative? I think so.

Chapter 9 in Newsonomics starts with a very interesting fact: Yahoo is still going strong. Okay, I dumbed it down a little. A lot. There are huge statistics in there which I don't want to misspeak about, so I won't bother to guess, but basically, Yahoo is still strong. I consider this a pretty big feat considering we're in the digital age and Yahoo is not what everyone is talking about anymore. Sure, it seems like everyone has a yahoo email account, but compared with gmail, is it much more?

Then the Newsonomics chapter goes on to say that Yahoo survives because of its technology, not its ad-base. If my head didn't hurt before, it does now. And then, the author dares to say that 90 percent of the work in a company (again, I could be misquoting and this is not my intention -- fact check if you must!) should be carried by the technology and then the other 10 percent by the people. I dumbed down his idea a lot again, but the mere fact is that this author is sayingtechnology is what helps a company survive today. Is that not a little mind blowing? After being in several journalism classes, I was ready to believe it was advertising.

As much as I'm surprised, I'm also kind of not. Because Yahoo is trying to be innovative and one-step ahead, or at least in stride, with everyone else.