Honestly, I can't blog about the majority of the things that I do at Yahoo! - that's part of the fun of being in Corporate Development! Even when I can blog about it, I am pretty limited in what I can say. But given that my blogging history is short, and a non-trivial portion of my readership is Yahoo! employees, blogging about work is not quite as risky right now. Blah, blah, blah...anyway...
Yesterday, one of my projects reached the main stage. I had the pleasure of helping bring Scott, Todd, Eric, John and Steve along with the awesome products and communities of MyBlogLog into Yahoo!. This deal rocks! MyBlogLog has caught onto something that I believe can transform how internet users and publishers participate in social media and the networks and content that they are passionate about. Reducing the barriers to participating in media, connecting people implicitly and explicitly to content and communities, and providing publishers with an avenue to building and interacting with a community of followers has the opportunity to open a significant number of doors for Yahoo!. But more importantly, combining these five guys with Bradley, Chad and Jeremy, plus our infrastructure and development capabilities, will result in nothing but awesome products for our users.
From my first conversation with Scott, during every minute I spent getting to know the guys and the product, and up to the point that Scott broke a smile while he was most likely responding to my email during a dinner, I never had a doubt that this product and this team are vital to evolving social activity online and we needed to bring them into Yahoo!
So congrats to the MyBlogLog team! I'm proud to have helped bring you onboard.
