Facebook and Social Startups Meme.

Jerry Yang, co-founder and CEO of Yahoo has been constantly under attack by shareholders, Carl Icahn and now the latest entry in the list is ‘The New York Times’. Joe Nocera of The New York Times sent a public memo to Jerry saying “Oh Jerry, It’s No Longer Your Babyâ€?. The memo reads:

You can say all you want about how you were trying to protect employees with this plan. You were really trying to protect yourself. Rushed through by the board while you were supposedly negotiating with Microsoft in good faith, it actually encourages Yahoo employees to quit after a takeover, by guaranteeing them a financial windfall that Microsoft would have to pay. And since it cannot be upended even if the board is ousted, or the company is taken over, it also discourages anyone from trying to take over Yahoo.

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There has been some hustle about Google’s stand for net neutrality and Richard Whitt. Senior Policy Director for Google has announced that more active steps will be taken to step up the idea of providing consumers with tools that let them know whether their broadband connections are being compromised with by their ISPs.

He added that;

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Unisfair, a company backed by Sequoia Capital and Norwest Venture Partners and with over 400 virtual events for clients as big as Cisco, IBM and National Instruments is to launch online virtual job fairs. The company has created an online recruiting tool that lets both recruiters and job seekers to interact live.

According to the company the purpose of the step is to remove the expenses of travel and in turn improve productivity of everything related to jobs, from searching to recruiting. The company’s own survey suggests that 64 % of people in the HR they find great ease and improvement in recruiting through the virtual system.

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Invite2Messenger enables us to invite our friends from facebook to chat with us using our favorite IM client i.e. Windows Live Messenger.

The process is pretty straight forward. All you have to do is to log into Invite2Messenger site, then choose the service(facebook is only available at this time) from which you want to add your friends to your WLM list. Then the next step will prompt you to enter the email address which you use to sign-in at facebook. Once you have provided your email id, the service automatically fetches all the friends list from your facebook profile to which you can then send an invite to join you for a chat session on Windows Live Messenger.

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At this week’s Tech Ed IT Pro 2008 in Orlando, IE Team announced some of the enhancements that they’re making in Internet Explorer 8 to help IT Professionals deploy and manage IE8 within their organization. 

Here is a quick run down to all the support that IE 8 is going to offer for IT Professionals:

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MySpace is refurbishing its site to attract more users. The formal version will be out by next week (Monday), said a company representative. Though the features will be available from Wednesday.

The new redesign which took more than six weeks, will have better search options, an updated profile editor, a new navigation bar/tool (which will allow easy messaging) and a better MySpaceTV player.

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After killing all hopes of getting a deal done with Microsoft, Yahoo has quickly jumped up to up a non-exclusive deal with Google that would give access to Yahoo to their AdSense for search and AdSense for content advertising.

This means that the search advertising for Yahoo will now be a mix of ads from Google’s AdSense and various other third parties along with its existing Panama system. All this as thought of by Yahoo will bring up to $800 million additional revenues a year with an immediate revenue of $250 – $450 million in the first twelve months. Despite all the colours that are filling up Yahoo’s cash canvas; it still; cannot achieve a staggering $31 per share that it could have had by giving a green go the deal with Microsoft.

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After the resignation of Jeff Weiner, Executive Vice President of  network division at Yahoo!, news of two more expected departures (Jeremy Zawodny and Usama Fayyad ) are heating up.

Jeremy Zawodny, a Technology Evangelist has officially announced that he will be leaving Yahoo! in the next few weeks. Read More »