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Jerry Yang's Personal Memo to all Yahoo Staff

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Updated version of the post including his Memo to the Yahooligans. - Zee from WeDoCreative via Bookmarklet

Nice coverage Zee! honestly, I am glad he's stepping down... yeah for Yahoo! - Susan Beebe

The memo to Yahoos seems really artificial... Really.... has Yahoo become a much stronger company over the last 18 months? - Bindu Reddy

Yes, Bindu. Public companies are such a funny thing; you can earn $180k then $300k then $250k while being very well fed and travelled; living your dreams. Now, try earning that in millions per annum as a company listed on the gambling board. I mean, stock exchange. Ah! You would be deemed a failure and a loser; the press would profile shareholders and anal ysts crying that their money (which they passively bet on you gobbling up more and more, like a crazed animal) has gone to the person they bet against. - floogy

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Fred Wilson commented on a blog post on Disqus

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"Doug That's true But that's also boxee's oppty Not every HDTV manufacturer is going to want to go with Apple's OS Some will want an open source solution like Boxee instead" - Fred Wilson

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"You have to check them out Every VC firm makes their portfolio companies public You can use LinkedIn to find out a way to get the the founders/CEOs of a VCs portfolio Then you call/email them and ask if they are good to work with" - Fred Wilson

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Holy hell...brilliant - Aden Davies

Even if my knees still let me skateboard, i could never do any of that... - Simon Wicks

Nice skillz, awful hair - Toby Graham

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“@sheilas i filled out that apology card for United we got. it gives us choice of $50 off, 10% off something or 3K miles. i went with miles”

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“@thisishowtofly are you launching your in-flight wifi service on nov 22 on all routes? i'm booking a trip to NYC in a few weeks. lemme know!”

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“Is there a new power law for social media? http://www.ffholic.com/Users.a... says there is. Can you see it?”

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1. Almost everyone on this list rarely participates. - Robert Scoble

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2. Almost everyone on this list is a popular blogger. - Robert Scoble

3. There is a definite tech bent to this list. - Robert Scoble

4. In the first 100 I see only a handful of names that I didn't know a year ago. - Robert Scoble

5. Most of the people on this list have been to at least one conference or event I've attended in past year. - Robert Scoble

And yet the most of use don't really care about them... http://www.ffholic.com/Entries... - Johnny Worthington

So, lessons? 1. it's hard to get onto the top of the popularity lists and wasn't made easier when a new service came out. 2. such lists favor people who network their behinds off at physical events. 3. Participation in FriendFeed helps you move up a little bit, but only if you are both very active and throw interesting content into FriendFeed (like, say, Mona). What else do you learn by looking at this list? - Robert Scoble

Johnny: well, you might claim you don't care about them, but in aggregate I see that most of us follow people who are already popular, not people who actually participate. Of course, since FriendFeed is, at top, an aggregator, just putting your RSS feeds into here is participation, I guess. - Robert Scoble

We do subscribe to them, because they are beacons. But you also have to weigh that list by the amount of 'active' users who subscribe to them. I know of at least 5 people who are members here on FriendFeed, who subscribe to most if not all of the top 20 yet never come on here. The core group is what matters. Those who are recognizable names will always get more follows, but the core of the group http://www.ffholic.com/Users.a... is what drives it. Rankings are always skewed. - Johnny Worthington

I think part of this is that many people use FriendFeed as an aggregator. - Aram Zucker-Scharff via bTT

This list just looks like every top 100 for every mainstream (in tech) online service. It shows that in the main, the top 100 don't use friend feed but send feeds to it, I don't think that = participation, at all. - Kevin Dixie

Kevin: there is a participation effect, though. On Twitter Leo Laporte has twice the followers that I do, but not here. Why? The participation effect. I've gathered quite a few followers by participating here. - Robert Scoble

I agree - participation is key to any community see my example here (a userguide to my community) http://www.fuelmyblog.com/inde... Online has the very same rules as offline and glad you are showing that - Kevin Dixie

FriendFeed is far more of a 'community' than Twitter is, participating here counts for far more than almost anywhere else, however, participation (and how much you participate) is also a lot less visible here, in my opinion. FriendFeed (as a system) favors those who create content to import into the stream, not those who contribute to the community. - Aram Zucker-Scharff

The smart people (like you, Tina, Mona, and others) know better. The result is that being active on the community nets your rewards from the community itself, not the system. Is that a bad thing? - Aram Zucker-Scharff

Kevin : I disagree, when you are sending feeds in FF, you are pointing at us, poor human, what you find interesting. I think this is a kind of participation. Robert is doing that very well (too well ?). The only exception is twitter for me. I find it very hard to follow a twitter conversation here on friendfeed. - Olivier CASTETS

Good discussion. I interact and participate much more on FF than on Twitter. Why? Because FF is a much better tool for enabling engaging communication. I find myself being very careful conversing on Twitter because I feel it's easy to pollute the stream, whereas on FF you can do this without the same effects. - Mark Krynsky

The first thing I notice about the list is that NOBODY on FF has more than 20,000 subscribers. I reach more people through my blog on a regular basis. Is FF really all that influential? It does seem to be a great way to connect with the geek elite, but is that its only value? - Eric Hamilton

Is finally FF the blogging tool of the near future? You just posted one line and a link and the most interesting and remarkable thoughts and comments appeared in minutes from all over! - philos

I'm finding that this is the case. In a way, this microblogging is easier to do and maintain than having your own blog. I find it takes a lot of time to maintain my blog, but it is so easy to update using microblogging. And you can easily track the conversations. - Alvin

@Eric - That is because people at FF actually read the people who they subscribe too (for the most part) instead of the Twitter method of following everyone. - Aram Zucker-Scharff

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Engineers Rule: At American auto companies, finance guys and marketers rise to the top. Not at Honda.

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Gem of a post! - Rahul Deodhar

"To be a company that society wants to exist." - Bill Strathearn

Entire industries, and nations, can rise or fall based on their understanding (or lack thereof) of this phenomenon. - Sean McBride

The motto "to be a company that society wants to exist" brings to mind Kevin Kelly's recent post on the near future and whether we can create a vision of collective betterment that motivates people instead of galvanizing them with fear of others: http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/... - Keith Pelczarski

I also liked their motto: "To be a company that society wants to exist." - Davide D'Incau

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“In the Year 2012, Who Will Own Yahoo!?: http://is.gd/85qI”

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Microsoft, I fear. - Bill Sodeman

The US government will own it, along with GM, Ford, and Chrysler because we have a bunch of people addicted to bailouts. - Chris White

This was my first Tweet using SocialSurveys from SocialToo. http://www.socialtoo.com - Louis Gray

I do like the polling though. It was one of the (gratuitous) features I wanted FF to add months ago. I remember you asked for it too, right Louis? - Chris White

...assuming that yahoo viably exists in 2012. netscape? webvan? bueller? bueller? .LOLz - .LAG

Chris, you're right, I did ask for it to be integrated into FriendFeed. Good memory. - Louis Gray

Maybe we all will, after the government bailout. - Morton Fox

This presumes Yahoo will still exist in 2012. The way its being run at the moment I'd think the odds of being around in 2012 are probably only 70% and falling. - Duncan Riley

I love the conversation around this - look forward to adding comments to the surveys themselves as well. - Jesse Stay

Chris, btw, if FriendFeed wants to integrate SocialToo, I'd love to talk with Paul and crew. Underneath, I do have an API I'd be happy to expose to them. (Paul, Ben, etc. you listening?) - Jesse Stay

I think Yahoo will own Yahoo. Either that or more than one person will own it. I don't think anyone is going to try and buy Yahoo again, they can still pull themselves up. - Aram Zucker-Scharff

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“I'm at the Chinese Blogger Conference: @davidfong is livetweet translating. #china20”

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hey there Robert...boring? interesting? - Zee from WeDoCreative

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It's hard to understand. I don't speak the language. But the people in the back are very interesting. Great vibe. - Robert Scoble

its @davidfeng - Web2Asia

@Web2Asia, sorry, I just copied Shel Israel. - Robert Scoble

Blame it on Shel :) - anna awesomesauce

you've been there a week, you'd think you'd speak fluently by now...jeez... - Zee from WeDoCreative

If you can't understand it then...ok, nevermind! - WorldofHiglet

Looks like someone should've invested some time with Rosetta Stone. - Akiva Moskovitz

any cool tech company addressing the language issue? seems like a huge opportunity to make this country and whats happening more accessible - simonpure

xiha btw, is a very cool cross-alphabet, polyglot social network - anna awesomesauce

:) - Vista

Zee from WeDoCreative posted a message

“Evander Holyfield vs. Nikolai Valuev ... Does Holyfield really stand a chance against a guy 10 years younger, 45kg heavier, and 7ft tall...?”

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I reckon Holyfield will get demolished. - Zee from WeDoCreative

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That is one hairy tall man. And hairy - Michael W. May via twhirl

He will get swallowed whole...like a gnat in your mouth in the summertime. - Kristasphere

the bigger they are... the harder they fall... - Canada's Web Shop

He'll struggle "Four-time heavyweight champion Holyfield boasts a record of 42 wins and 27 KOs with nine defeats - four of which have come in the last six years - while Valuev has 49 wins and 34 KOs with one defeat." - Tai

Evander has to stop this.... - Live4Soccer

When is the last time we saw someone die in the ring? - xero

How many children did Holyfield eat today? I rest my case. - Christopher Harley

I have a feeling, if he survives, Holyfield may be taking on George Foreman...selling kitchen appliances. - April Russo

Holyfield in his prime is my all time favorite boxer. It's sad to watch him continue like this. - Mark Krynsky

Crazy. David Haye is my man to keep an eye on in a very lightweight heavyweight division. - Toby Graham

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