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The craziest Yahoo layoff stories
Did you hear Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang had his house lined with Kevlar before he laid off 1,500 employees? No idea if that's true, but that's the best rumor I heard all week.
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Yahoos drowning their sorrows
Where are laid-off Yahoos drinking away their sorrows? Some in San Francisco, where Yahoo's Brickhouse incubator is located, have congregated at Hotel Utah, a bar South of Market known for its live music. I called the bar and bought them a round...
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The long goodbye
Everything takes forever at Yahoo, the once high-flying, now famously sluggish Internet giant. Today's layoffs of 1,500 employees have been expected for months. And yet the strange thing is so many Yahoos seem unprepared.
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South Park power outage frees workers from Web 2.0
The power is out in South Park, San Francisco's startup epicenter. Wired and Yahoo Brickhouse — in the same building — are affected. Caffe Centro is down. Jack Falstaff isn't answering the phone. Six Apart, a block away on Fourth...
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We'll always have the Sea of Tranquility
Although the Phoenix Rover twittered about ice on Mars ("w00t!!!"), a nonstop flight to the red planet remains a dubious venture. To further kill our collective space buzz, yesterday Wired broke the news that even rocket scientists don't think...
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Ex-Twitterer Blaine Cook soon out of Yahoo
Does Twitter miss former architect Blaine Cook, the technician who was simultaneously blamed for the site's outages and hailed for keeping it alive? We're guessing so, if only because Cook's long-haired mug still — still! — gazes from...
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I'm a big kid now
Time always seems to turn cute childhood stars into disappointingly unhot adults (e.g. Corey Haim, Macaulay Caulkin, JTT). As you contemplate why the fates bring out the ugly stick, take a moment to remember the challenges of growing pains:...
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And in the end the stock you take is equal to the mess you make
How many ex-Yahoo managers does it take to reproduce a classic Beatles album cover? From left to right: Salim Ismail, Chad Dickerson, Scott Gatz, and Bradley Horowitz. All four were, at some point, responsible for parts of Yahoo's...
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What's Caterina Fake's Hunch?
After Yahoo bought Flickr from the wife-and-husband team of Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield in 2005, then-executive Jeff Weiner charged Fake with "building the next Flickr at Yahoo." It never happened — though one result of those...
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The unhappy death of the Blogger Appeasement Group
In what seems like another age, my predecessor once wrote about companies' "blogger appeasement groups" — units dedicated to generating buzz, not bucks. With Chad Dickerson leaving Yahoo Brickhouse, the troubled company's troubled incubator...
