Yahoo! unveiled a new logo, their first in 18 years, to the public this week. CEO Marissa Mayer tells how she and the designers at Yahoo! turned it out over a weekend. That sparked discussion all over the internet about CEOs who design logos while employing top graphic designers with years of experience …and having them work weekends while she does it. People apparently hate the new look. The Atlantic reacted to the controversy by wondering why anyone cares. But the fun part of all this is that Bertrand Fan quickly made a website that transforms anything you type into a logo just like Yahoo's new one. Notice the different sized letters and the exclamation point whimsically tilted 9 degrees. Link -via Laughing Squid
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I sure would have. I'm using Feedly now, but it's not as good as good ol' Google Reader was.
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That's institutional bureaucracy for ya (though plenty of bloggers would've been happy had Google just left its RSS reader alone for the next twelve years instead of sunsetting it.)
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Yahoo would have been better served actually finishing out ANY of the product ideas they've released and then let languish over the past twelve (ish) years. The company came out with plenty of great ideas that never actually came to functional fruition.
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If I had anything to do with it, it was due to Flickr.
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Actually, Yahoo's traffic just came in higher than Google's (even without the Tumblr acquisition)
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