Opinionated

TechCrunch reports that Salim Ismail is to head the Yahoo Brickhouse project. Yahoo’s intention is to create an internal incubator - think Google Labs - and so encourage innovation and productizing akin to forming lots of internal startups.
Salim is a great choice for this role. Currently heading up Confabb (to be replaced by David Dell) [...]

Susan Mernit has announced that she is joining Yahoo. I have had the good fortune to meet with Susan a couple of times over the last 3 months or so. She has a great analytical mind, she is execution focused, she “gets” what is happening with Web 2.0. I suspect Yahoo are the big winners [...]