“It’s not about putting up pretty content, but about maximizing the value of the eyeballs in front of that content,” said Charlene Li, founder of the Altimeter Group, a technology research firm. “There’s a real opportunity for him at Yahoo, if they can take all this data and use it for advertisers.”

Scott Thompson, PayPal Executive, to Become Chief of Yahoo - NYTimes.com

I hope Charlene Li was misquoted on this, because if she wasn’t she clearly doesn’t know what she’s talking about. An approach that treats your company’s editorial product as a simple bit of commodity “content” that just needs to be optimized for advertiser needs is foolish; it ends up devaluing what you do. 

  • The New York Times

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