• Loathed EVP Ash Patel will head up Global Products group.
• Global Partner Solutions EVP Hilary Schneider will oversee both ad sales and product development for the entire US region and be Patel's peer.
• Scott Moore, who runs the Yahoo Media Group, will report to Schneider. Though he has startup offers.
• Brad Garlinghouse will probably leave by the end of the summer.
• Yahoo Search’s Vish Makhijani will leave the company.
• Front Door head Tapan Bhat will either report to Patel in Global Products or bolt.
• Yahoo SVP for Strategic Alliances, Chris Bolte, will leave the company.

It’s not clear where Garlinghouse is headed next, the rumor is multiple private equity firms are vying for his attention. Frankly, given his operating experience (he grew most of the properties under his control to no. 1 in their market, even as Yahoo search fell apart over the years), it’s too bad he isn’t ending up in a CEO role somewhere.

Any guesses as to who fed Arrington all of TechCrunch's Yahoo news?

Brad Garlinghouse: The obvious candidate; a former CEO, Garlinghouse wrote a controversial "Peanut Butter" memo calling for Yahoo to focus on fewer products and do them well, a strategy Yahoo has followed. He currently oversees communications properties like Yahoo Mail and Messenger, which are shaping up as the centerpieces of Yahoo's attempt to catch up with Facebook and turn its user base into a social network. The odds-on favorite to succeed Weiner.

Scott Moore: The head of Yahoo's Media Group, overseeing properties including news, finance, sports, celebrity portal OMG and women's site Shine. Not in the running, we think: He was only recently promoted, and he likes living in the L.A. area, where the Media Group is based.

Vish Makhijani: Runs Yahoo Search. No chance; given the performance of Yahoo in the search market, it's not clear why he has his current job, let alone why Jerry Yang would give him a new one.

Tapan Bhat: Runs the Yahoo.com homepage and My Yahoo, among other "front doors." Bhat keeps a low profile, but he recently launched Yahoo Buzz, a Digg competitor which has been well received. The most likely scenario for Bhat: Garlinghouse gets promoted, but Bhat gets handed his communications and community portfolio. We'd like to see what Bhat does with sites like Flickr, whose product development has stagnated. (How long did it take to launch video on Flickr?)

Your thoughts on these Yahoo executives in the comments, and your tips in our inbox, are welcome.

Not many in the Silicon Valley money crowd support Hillary Clinton. The notable exception is John Doerr, who now counts former VP Al Gore as a colleague at Kleiner Perkins.

The list is lengthier for Barack Obama.

• David Anderson, managing director, Sutter Hill Ventures
  
• John Thompson, Symantec CEO
  
• Gordon Eubanks, former Symantec CEO
  
• Yahoo exec Brad Garlinghouse
  
• Former California gubernatorial candidate, current Steve Jurvetson pal and Tesla Motors board member Steve Westly
  
• John Roos, CEO of law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
  
• Google execs David Drummond and Marissa Mayer
  
• Google.org director Larry Brilliant
  
• YouTube founder Chad Hurley
  
• VC Doug Hickey of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
  
• VC Stewart Alsop of Alsop Louie
  
• Electronic Arts CEO John Riccitielo
  
• Sequoia Capital venture capitalist Michael Moritz
  
• Craiglist founder Craig Newmark
  
• Netscape and Ning founder Marc Andreessen (who also supports Mitt Romney)

(Photo by azrainman)

Couldn't Yahoo have found someone besides Garlinghouse frère and soeur to write about? Perhaps not. With all the defections, the company has fewer and fewer stars to draw on. CEO Jerry Yang is press-shy, and President Sue Decker is downright mediaphobic. Flaunt what you've got.

Why was the event heavy on the storytellers and light on subjects? "All these fucking PR people!" one friend. "It's like walking through a pig trough."

The biggest Yahoo personality was "peanut butter manifesto" author Brad Garlinghouse, who was spotted deep in a long conversation with AllThingsD's Kara Swisher in a corner by the bar. The biggest name on the Facebook side? Spokeswoman Brandee Barker, who was quite a fan of the photo booth (and, apparently, Swisher, whom she pried away from Garlinghouse for some close contact).

No surprise, really. Yahoo and Facebook executives were likely distracted by negotiations over taking a stake in Facebook. And really, OutCast couldn't have planned it better: The Valley's press corps was drinking and eating instead of staking out restaurants and hotels in Palo Alto. Brilliant!

Indeed, the number and cailber of the journalists who appeared says something about the spell they've cast over the tech media. Spotted in the crowd: author and BusinessWeek columnist Sarah Lacy, GigaOm's Om Malik, USA Today's Janet Kornblum, Michael Bazeley of the San Jose Mercury News, Jessica Guynn of the LA Times, Bloomberg's Ed Robinson and Wall Street Journal reporters Vauhini Vara and Don Clark. On the less-prestigious side, Red Herring editor Joel Dreyfuss was there, and upon meeting me, instantly began haranguing me for our coverage of his publication's death spiral. "Why didn't you cover Business 2.0?" he asked, alluding to that magazine's recent disintegration. Um, I thought we had?

Ubiquitous videoblogger Robert Scoble showed up. I asked after his newborn son and inquired about how online-video startup PodTech, his ostensible employer, was faring. "Much better than last month," he replied. "Wait, what happened last month?" I asked. "John got fired!" he shot back, shocked that I had forgotten such a momentous occasion. Wait, fired? Didn't John Furrier, PodTech's founder and former CEO, "step down"? You learn something new at every one of these parties.

I should just throttle Brad Garlinghouse or, at least, force feed him some of that peanut butter he was so obsessed with in that memo that kicked off this whole mess. Spread too thin, are we? Here's my new response every time I see him strolling around with that I-told-you-all-so grin: You got peanut butter on my company! You got company in my peanut butter!

• Craig "Lemme guess, you got your couch through Craigslist. You're welcome" Newmark cryptically thanks Bank of America for the two CDs worth $22 mil. Is this some clever West Wing allusion, or did Craig just deposit, like, two days' wages? [Craigblog]
• Brad Garlinghouse (whom we thought was defecting to MySpace), pictured, got bumped up to Senior Veep of Communications, Communities and Front Doors (CCF). That includes the main pages of Yahoo and My Yahoo — an important job, since your mother thinks those two sites are the Internet.
• It's funny 'cause it's true — Business 2.0 says Google's building a virtual world. A matrix, if you will. [Future Boy]
• Google will serve only eggs from free-range chickens. Make your own joke. [Mercury News]
• Bubble-blogger Mike Arrington says Yahoo may have bought wiki company Jotspot; he rates it "85% likely." Can we get a TechCrunch Truthiness Meter for every rumor? [TechCrunch]

Have you heard of Brad Garlinghouse at Yahoo? He is seriously cute.

It looks like Lloyd Braun isn't the only person soon-to-be-leaving Yahoo. I work at MySpace, and there has been lots of chatter in the news about us getting into email and instant messaging. All legit. Brad was here in our offices, meeting with our founders Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson.

Brad runs Yahoo's email and instant messenger, along with a couple of other things and I hear he's our top pick to do the same for MySpace. I also hear he's supposed to be back in a couple weeks and that we're trying to get him to meet with the big guns in New York.

We're going to steal Yahoo's cutest employees AND all their users.

"Seriously cute"? Not by Yahoo standards (since Yahoo's basically L.A. in a bottle). But defecting to Myspace? I can believe that.

(By the way, as for Yahoo's transient Media Group head, word is that all the "Lloyd's out of Yahoo" rumors have kept Lloyd solidly in Yahoo. Say a prayer, Lloyd, to the gods of irony.)