Comments on: Yahoo Hires Former Twitter Chief Architect Blaine Cook

By: De Microhoo!-soap blijft bezig - Doe Niet Zo Moeilijk!

De Microhoo!-soap blijft bezig - Doe Niet Zo Moeilijk! — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:16:35 +0000

[...] komt er zo heel af en toe ook iemand bij, zoals Blaine Cook. Die van Twitter, [...]

By: ProjectX Blog » Blog Archive » Xlinks - 31/7/2008

ProjectX Blog » Blog Archive » Xlinks - 31/7/2008 — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:09:16 +0000

[...] Yahoo hires Blaine Cook Added on 07/18/2008 at 11:23AM [...]

By: Zane

Zane — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:33:33 +0000

Maybe they’ll come up with something cool.

http://pixblix.com

By: links for 2008-07-19 « Brent Sordyl’s Blog

links for 2008-07-19 « Brent Sordyl’s Blog — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 14:31:45 +0000

[...] Yahoo Hires Former Twitter Chief Architect Blaine Cook Blaine Cook, the controversial former chief architect at Twitter, is now a rails developer at Yahoo. A source at Yahoo confirms the hire and says he’s working on the Fire Eagle (tags: twitter rubyonrails fireeagle) [...]

By: links for 2008-07-18 « Ferrar

links for 2008-07-18 « Ferrar — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:34:08 +0000

[...] Yahoo Hires Former Twitter Chief Architect Blaine Cook [TechCrunch] Even as Yahoo loses execs by the dozens, they continue to hire new blood. (tags: business twitter yahoo) [...]

By: SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 17, 2008 | PAGE PROPELLER NEWS

SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 17, 2008 | PAGE PROPELLER NEWS — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:11:48 +0000

[...] Yahoo Hires Former Twitter Chief Architect Blaine Cook, TechCrunch [...]

By: Geek Links - 06.17.08 : Wesley Donehue

Geek Links - 06.17.08 : Wesley Donehue — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:10:32 +0000

[...] TC | Yahoo Hires Former Twitter Chief Architect Blaine Cook [...]

By: Dmitriy

Dmitriy — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:01:12 +0000

@tim As far as I know, they are currently developing the FireEagle http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/ with Rails, so that’s what BC is going to be working on.

Cheers

By: Yahoo contrató al anterior arquitecto principal de Twitter | AtajoTV

Yahoo contrató al anterior arquitecto principal de Twitter | AtajoTV — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:58:16 +0000

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By: Startup Meme » Blog Archive Blain Cook, Twitter’s Ex-Chief Architect joins Yahoo!

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 08:31:16 +0000

[...] Cook left Twitter with a plan of moving to UK but his joining at Yahoo depicts that he would have altered his plans.No one can deny the fact that twitter’s downtime and bad service was all because of Cooks’ inconsistencies. Thousands of people thinks that his decisions as a Chief Architect have badly ruined Twitter. [...]

By: Nikolay Kolev

Nikolay Kolev — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:34:22 +0000

Interesting news in the context of all those smart people fleeing Yahoo!

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:14:07 +0000

Soinds like a great hire. Good luck Blaine!

By: Loren's Mom

Loren's Mom — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:40:32 +0000

@ryan wrote “The problem with Twitter is that they didn’t really know what the product was when they built it, therefore its not engineered badly just incorrectly.”

How does that explain the many months since the redesign that was going to fix everything? If they can’t design, at least throw more hardware at it.

By: Yahoo Hires Former Twitter Chief Architect Blaine Cook | Techspedia™

Yahoo Hires Former Twitter Chief Architect Blaine Cook | Techspedia™ — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:28:12 +0000

[...] Even as Yahoo loses execs by the dozens, they continue to hire new blood. Blaine Cook, the controversial (and some say very talented) former chief architect at Twitter, is now a rails developer at Yahoo. A source at Yahoo confirms the hire and says he’s working on the Fire Eagle project in Yahoo’s Brickhouse early stage product group, which is run by Chad Dickerson. FireEagle, which we’ve described as a “Twitter for location” was first announced in November 2007 and is currently in private bet The Rest Of The Story at Technorati … [...]

By: Markus

Markus — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:43:17 +0000

@ Techlusive (Aka Chris)

I was also interviewed at Yahoo by Peter Ford…[snip]… so I wasn’t the ideal Candidate.

Or… they didn’t want you because they know about your racist rants and current status as TechCrunch’s leading troll?

Just saying…

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » ヤフーが、前TwitterチーフアーキテクトBlaine Cookを採用

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » ヤフーが、前TwitterチーフアーキテクトBlaine Cookを採用 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:59:56 +0000

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By: tim

tim — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:52:30 +0000

Does that mean Yahoo is using Ruby & Rails for some projects? Or did we already know that? I thought they were focusing all their new dev efforts on PHP.

Anyone have any insight?

By: something

something — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:14:28 +0000

“Jabber-based real-time backend” – hope I never meet one of these.

By: anon

anon — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:14:25 +0000

YAAAAHOOHTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error

By: Ryan

Ryan — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:40:56 +0000

The problem with Twitter is that they didn’t really know what the product was when they built it, therefore its not engineered badly just incorrectly. Its highly dynamic so can’t easily be cached, and database calls with Rails are expensive.

By: Zane

Zane — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:27:08 +0000

I hope yahoo stays on its feet i’ve always liked them.

http://pixblix.com

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 23:22:10 +0000

….WOW WOW WOW….

Expect a lot of DOWN TIME from Yahoo fire eagle in the near future. and the only way to keep it up, someone need to monitor the server every second.

By: Rajat Garg

Rajat Garg — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:50:44 +0000

Yahoo has lately been revolutionizing search industry as well as other tech areas but business outcome sucks. Seems like business team needs a little bit of shake up (but isn’t that happening already )

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http://www.pilotoutlook.com

By: Maurita

Maurita — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:41:48 +0000

i think yahoo has a good opportunity while google is being hated upon at the moment for some privacy issues of its users

By: Elize

Elize — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:39:58 +0000

yahoo is actually coming back up. The only thing bringing it down is abuse of power with products like aim that plainly hijacks the start up page in all browsers aim search linke