On Tuesday, I posted something about the appearance of the Google Finance beta, and its appeal compared with the market leader, Yahoo Finance. Yahoo blogger Jeremy Zawodny has responded to similar comments with Why Google Finance Makes Me Sad. He used to work on the product, and says: "It makes me sad because virtually all of the new/innovative/cool features in Google Finance are things we talked about YEARS ago. Many of them I'd lobbied for repeatedly. Some were even prototyped."
He also points out that Katie Jacobs Stanton, who announced Google Finance, "was one of the best people we had in Yahoo! Finance".
It's not too late for Yahoo Finance, of course, but it illustrates the point that if you don't keep moving, eventually you get overtaken....
