I had recently written off Yahoo as dead. Today, I hardly use any of their products at all, except Flickr.

My Yahoo Mail is the old outdated version because their updated version seemed more designed to deliver ads than user experience and all it does is deliver spam.

Calendar, briefcase, mail, search, news, finance - I now do all of these on Google where the technology is faster and cleaner. Innovation appears to have died at Yahoo.

That said, her comments here made me rethink my writing them off. Semel and Yang really did a number on this company. Semel was a looter who never wanted to get his hands dirty with operations and Yang's head is in the clouds.

This letter is a good start, let's hope Yang has the wisdom and humility to not get in the way. I believe he's still on the board.