&gt; The first mistake the Yahoo board made was to decide that product innovation would save them.<p>If they had given some proper direction to their innovation, perhaps that could have saved them. One stupid decision they made back in 2006 was to shutdown geo-cities. The data hype hadn&#x27;t even begun at that time and with some vision they could have turned geo-cities into a thing similar to what cloud-hosted services like aws are doing today.<p>Again, yui and yii were (and to some extent still are) great frameworks created by Yahoo. They should have tried to capitalize on that front, maybe offered paid support or created CMSs on top of them like eCommerce and&#x2F;or web-based CRM systems. I know there is competition in this field, but a high quality web-based product coming from Yahoo Inc. would have been very well-received by the industry.