Top Items:
Jerry Yang / Yodel Anecdotal:
My new job — The title of Chief Yahoo takes on new meaning today. I have the great honor of stepping into the role of Yahoo!'s Chief Executive Officer. Yahoo! has an incredibly bright future and I make this move with deep conviction and enthusiasm. I've partnered closely …
Discussion:
Publishing 2.0, WebProNews, Valleywag, BBC, paidContent.org, Search Engine Roundtable, Yahoo! (YHOO): BloggingStocks, TechCrunch, Sadagopan's weblog …, ParisLemon, Between the Lines, Deep Jive Interests, BetaNews, 901am, Clickety Clack, The Webpreneur, Guardian Unlimited, A VC, HipMojo.com, :Ben Metcalfe Blog, Joe Duck, Tim Oren's Due Diligence, Lost Remote, InsideGoogle, CenterNetworks, David Dalka, Digital Daily, John Battelle's Searchblog, Insider Chatter, You've Got Ismail! and Web Strategy
RELATED:
PR Newswire:
Yahoo! Co-Founder Jerry Yang Named Chief Executive Officer — Terry Semel Named Non-Executive Chairman — Sue Decker Named President — Yang and Decker to Focus on Realizing Yahoo!'s Strategic Vision by Accelerating Execution, Further Strengthening Leadership and Fostering a Culture of Winning
Discussion:
CNNMoney.com, Bloomberg, Thomas Hawk's Digital …, Out of My Gord, paidContent.org, Guardian Unlimited, Scobleizer, The Next Net, Digital Trends, Read/WriteWeb, Search Engine Land, mathewingram.com/work, Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim, Folksonomy, Business Week, Todd Watson, IP Democracy, Search Engine Journal, GigaOM, The Globe and Mail, Between the Lines, Internet Outsider, Insider Chatter, Microsoft News Tracker, Tech Trader Daily, HipMojo.com, Paul Kedrosky's …, Got Ads?, Conversion Rater and digg
Miguel Helft / New York Times:
Yahoo's Chief Resigns, and a Founder Takes Over — When Yahoo hired Terry S. Semel as its chief executive in the midst of the dot-com implosion in 2001, it became a bit of an oddity in Silicon Valley: a technology company run by a Hollywood executive. — Now, as Yahoo is being eclipsed …
Discussion:
Profy.Com, Insider Chatter, Download Squad, BloggingStocks and Yahoo! (YHOO): BloggingStocks
Reuters:
Yahoo boss steps down — Yahoo! co-founders Jerry Yang (centre) and David Filo (right) pose with chief executive Terry Semel in 2005. — Yahoo on Monday replaced Chief Executive Terry Semel with its co-founder Jerry Yang, bowing to investor pressure as the internet media company has fallen behind web search leader Google.
Wall Street Journal:
Semel Steps Aside as Yahoo CEO — A WALL STREET JOURNAL ONLINE NEWS ROUNDUP — Yahoo Inc. said Terry Semel will step aside as its chief executive and be replaced by co-founder Jerry Yang, as the Internet icon attempts to reinvigorate its business and regain investor confidence.
Tony Ruscoe / Google Blogoscoped:
Google Press Day 2007 — Today (from 10:00 - 16.20 CET) Google is holding their press day event in Paris. Marissa Mayer, Eric Schmidt, Urs Hölzle as well as the YouTube founders will be there, and there may be some product announcements. I'm in Paris and will be live-blogging the event for you here.
RELATED:
Bloomberg:
YouTube Starts Local Sites in Brazil, Japan, Europe (Update2) — Google Inc.'s YouTube, the most- popular video-sharing Web site, started nine local versions of the site in countries including Brazil, Japan and the U.K. to build its audience worldwide. — Local sites have also been introduced …
Discussion:
The Utube Blog
RELATED:
Marc Andreessen / blog.pmarca.com:
The Pmarca Guide to Startups, part 1: Why not to do a startup — In this series of posts I will walk through some of my accumulated knowledge and experience in building high-tech startups. — My specific experience is from three companies I have co-founded: Netscape …
Luke O'Brien / Threat Level:
Appeals Court Says Feds Need Warrants to Search E-Mail — A federal appeals court on Monday issued a landmark decision (.pdf) that holds that e-mail has similar constitutional privacy protections as telephone communications, meaning that federal investigators who search …
Discussion:
Identity Woman
RELATED:
Kevin Rose / Digg the Blog:
Site Downtime / New Features — Hey everyone - quick post to let you know that in the midst of going live with some back-end upgrades as well as our new comments system, the site has had a longer than expected outage tonight. We're deep into the fixes and should have them done soon.
RELATED:
New York Times:
Google and Utility to Test Hybrids That Sell Back Power — Google and Pacific Gas & Electric have unveiled their vision of a future in which cars and trucks are partly powered by the country's electric grids, and vice versa. — The companies displayed on Monday six Toyota Prius …
RELATED:
Ken Fisher / Ars Technica:
Study: Inkjet printers are filthy, lying thieves — A new study says that on average, more than half of the ink from inkjet cartridges is wasted when users toss them in the garbage. Why is that interesting? According to the study, users are tossing the cartridges when their printers …
Discussion:
Gadget Lab
Sydney Morning Herald:
Australia announces vast national broadband plan — Australian Prime Minister John Howard on Monday announced a 2.0 billion dollar (1.68 billion US) plan to provide fast and affordable Internet access across the vast country. — Howard said Optus, the Australian offshoot of Singapore telco Singtel …
Business Wire:
HP to Acquire SPI Dynamics, Strengthening Capabilities in Application Quality Management — PALO ALTO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—HP (NYSE:HPQ - News) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire SPI Dynamics, Inc., a leading provider of web application security assessment software …
Discussion:
Between the Lines
Opera:
Opera Mini 4 beta now available — Opera Software today released Opera Mini 4 beta, codenamed Dimension, the much-awaited sneak preview of the newest version of Opera's pioneering Web browser for all mobile phones. Opera Mini 4 beta is a complete redesign of the world's most popular mobile Web browser.
Stan Schroeder / Mashable!:
33 Ways to Watch Free TV Online — It's time to toss the old tube to the dumpster. Well, not if you have one of those 47" plasma ones, but...you know what we mean. The future of media is the Internet, and television is no exception. Instead of browsing through the channels with your remote …
