Interesting interview with Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz in the Wall Street Journal (registration required). For those not familiar with Bartz, she is famous for being outspoken and for her use of "colorful metaphors."
She is also known as a tough, demanding and skilled manager who did an impressive job as CEO at Autodesk prior to talking over Yahoo.
The piece of the interview that most caught my eye was her response to a question on what Yahoo customers are looking for. From the WSJ article:
WSJ: What kinds of content do Yahoo users want to see more of?
Ms. Bartz: They want to see more local content – things within a five to 10 mile radius that people want to know what's going on, like coupons and restaurants. People love to know other people's opinions, the whole idea of polling, commenting and rating. That is part of how we operate now online.
WSJ: It sounds like you'd love to have a user-recommendation site like Yelp, a location-sharing app like Foursquare and a local-coupon site like Groupon. Would they fit into Yahoo?
Ms. Bartz: The concept of what they do, sure. They're local, they're rating, they're user voted-on...
Yet another example of the growing role of the local web and new localism.
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