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  twitter.com/int23 - January 12th, 2009 at 3:12 pm PST

  This is good news, actually. Google is pulling some great minds into the fold. If the recent announcements are an indication of what’s coming, I think we’ll see some great things from Google.

  Yahoo on the other hand needs to quickly start thinking outside of the box if they hope to survive.

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    Gennice - January 12th, 2009 at 4:33 pm PST

    I think the only chance Yahoo has is to be sold out… And to some smart people that will know how to use it’s power and potential.

    But that’s yet to see i guess…

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      Jon - January 12th, 2009 at 11:31 pm PST

      Through all this brain drain, Yahoo still manages to be alive and turn a profit… not sure Yahoo will go under anytime soon BUT loosing so much great talent will hurt them big time in the future.

      My guess is that Yahoo will be acquired by over the next year by Microsoft at a valuation far under 39B.

      Jon
      http://WoodMarvels.com - Create Unique Memories

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    Waldo - January 12th, 2009 at 4:34 pm PST

    What???? All I have been reading on this blog is that anyone who has any skills or useful talents left Yahoo YEARS ago. And… only pud chuckers were left behind.

    Now someone who left last summer is part of the “…great minds…” fold????

    Please remember this is an “I hate Yahoo” site!!!!

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• Will Conley - January 12th, 2009 at 3:19 pm PST

  Interesting news, considering Delicious is now owned by Yahoo, a Google competitor. Thanks Michael.

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  Ijaar - January 12th, 2009 at 3:21 pm PST

  So Google is still attracting good senior talen even though its losing a lot to facebook..

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  YahooGal - January 12th, 2009 at 3:25 pm PST

  Yahoo never deserved Josh.

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  Luis Pereira - January 12th, 2009 at 3:36 pm PST

  Personalized social search is the future. Delicious is so web 2.0

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  Oy vey - January 12th, 2009 at 3:40 pm PST

  John is just getting out while the getting is good, as am I

  Any truth to the rumor that Arrington is leaving TechCrunch?

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  silicon valley dropout - January 12th, 2009 at 3:49 pm PST

  michael arrington was a second post really necessary about him getting a job @ google . what about saving co2? you guys just wasted a good amount of co2 when you could have just changed the first post title about this matter.

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  Alex - January 12th, 2009 at 3:59 pm PST

  delicious is my favorite social bookmarking site, even I still have trouble typing it into my address bar.

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    quirkyalone - January 13th, 2009 at 1:22 am PST

    Yes I still use is. Too bad Yahoo didn’t add anything really useful to it, just made the design unnecessarily complex.

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  John - January 12th, 2009 at 4:12 pm PST

  You can use delicious.com now.

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    hamid reza - January 13th, 2009 at 6:04 am PST

    Actually when it was available at del.icio.us, we -Iranians- could use it, but after it moved to delicious.com our stupid internet censorship system prevents us to access it effectively, so we only can access it using its firefox addon,. Hardly and barely usable as it was someday.

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  Fabian Schonholz - January 12th, 2009 at 4:50 pm PST

  I think Yahoo! needs fresh blood. That is really all there is to it at this point. Not necessarily a new direction but some refactoring, regrouping and redeployment based on a new cadre of execs. It is still has the most traffic on the web. I am not sure for how much longer, but … it still does.

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  Just Some Guy - January 12th, 2009 at 10:05 pm PST

  Uh, Joshua’s been at Google since December, actually.

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  ani625 - January 12th, 2009 at 10:14 pm PST

  Good for Joshua.
  Delicious still is one the best apps of Y!
  Hoping for a exciting new thingy from Google.

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• Dana Koh - January 12th, 2009 at 10:54 pm PST

  Google keeps on draining the IT market of briliant minds

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• Dana Koh - January 12th, 2009 at 11:06 pm PST

  aaaa

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  Paul Jacobson - January 12th, 2009 at 11:26 pm PST

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    WorkLocator.com - January 13th, 2009 at 8:24 am PST

    google hires professional internet bookmarker.

    expect innovation? i doubt it.

    TC i like the locator ad for carls jr’s shakes.

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    • Fab C. Johnson - January 13th, 2009 at 8:58 am PST

      he might bring a lot to the table and help google figure out how to socialize some of their content

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  Peterson - January 13th, 2009 at 12:29 am PST

  Does some briliant minds can make company so much different, or some leader’s mind make it so much different? I think it’s better for yahoo to changed it’s leader or leader’s mind. am I correct? Y…

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  Failed - January 13th, 2009 at 3:04 am PST

  This guy didn’t realize that he got lucky with Delicious. He tried it again and failed. This is a bitter pill.

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  Strategic Internet Marketing - January 17th, 2009 at 12:05 pm PST

  Good for him… and possibly for Google. Interesting if Del.icio.us will change somehow and will be ranking higher than before…

  Narek

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