FUSE keeps partying on

ndouglas — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 16:07:25 EDT

Yahoo's FUSE party (which, by the way, was up in Santa Clara in their Mission College office) was well-photographed, if confusing:

A Yahooer gave me an all-revealing IMterview:

Valleywag: so, on the record, what does this all mean?
Yahooer: I can't tell U :-(
but it is COOL (as is most of the stuff happening at Yahoo!)
seriously we rock.... and you can quote me on that

So all we know about FUSE so far is:
- Acoustic guitars
- Balloons
- No booze

Photos tagged Yahoo FUSE [Flickr]
Earlier: Yahoo FUSE: It's revolutioniz— It's a collabo— oh hell, it's a party [Valleywag]

Yahoo FUSE: It's revolutioniz— It's a collabo— oh hell, it's a party

ndouglas — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 15:16:02 EDT

"Yahoo's being lame again, and this time it's internal," says a reader from inside the !plex. That's how he describes the project-turned-party launched inside Yahoo HQ yesterday.

It's called FUSE. Which I believe stands for Fucking USEless, but actually means...lemme look it up...F(ind) U(se) S(hare) E(xpand). Or in other words, a bunch of search team dorks decorating the corridors of one of the Yahoo campuses instead of doing any real work.

Ouch. Does the idea-sharing project deserve that kind of ripping? Yahooers can defend or decry the project in the comments or e-mail.

Meanwhile, some context: FUSE started as Yahoo exec Jeff Weiner's vision last year, and he chatted with John Battelle about it. It's all about sharing and collaborating and Web 2.0 — which, granted, does sound like an excuse to goof off. They do seem to be having a ball in their Flickr photos. It may not be the reason Yahoo made the Fortune 500 this year, but the balloons and partying ought to kick Yahoo up a few notches on "Best places to work."

Photos tagged Yahoo Fuse [Flickr]

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FUSE keeps partying on

Yahoo FUSE: It's revolutioniz— It's a collabo— oh hell, it's a party