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Yahoo Brickhouse office closing?

Is Yahoo shopping the 14,000-sq. ft. space where its Brickhouse incubator sits? Several prospective renters came through on a recent weekend with the building's property manager, a tipster tells Valleywag. With offices now vacant in Sunnyvale,...


What's up at Yahoo Brickhouse?

Remember Yahoo Pipes, the "interactive feed aggregator and manipulator" — in other words, a website meant to help people build simple Web applications? It launched to some fanfare last February, with many taking it as a sign of Yahoo getting...


Escape from the Brickhouse

Earlier today, we asked about Yahoo's Brickhouse — the ostensible incubator of innovation in San Francisco's South Park charged with reviving Yahoo's reputation for Web cool. Departures from the Pipes project, the only notable product...


"Okay, you win. Best two out of three? C'mon, bring it!"

TechConfidential's Joshua Jaffe intensely awaits a serve at Yahoo's Brickhouse party for Web 2.0 last night. Suggest your own in the comments. Yesterday's winner: BartKela. (Photo by Brian Solis)


Scott Gatz escapes Yahoo Brickhouse

Rumor has it Scott Gatz, the brain behind Yahoo's search strategy earlier in the decade, more recently heading up part of Bradley Horowitz's Advanced Products Group, will leave Yahoo at the end of the year. Our source, who claims to have failed in...


Today's most popular headlines are MySpace millionaire says "whatever" to high school (7,586 views today), EchoStar buys Sling Media — and a shot at the future (2,848) and What's up at Yahoo Brickhouse? (877).


Silicon Valley Tool tries to cozy up to Valleywag

Near the end of a Stirr mixer in San Francisco on Tuesday, I ran into Salim Ismail, the head of Yahoo Brickhouse and our newest Silicon Valley Tool, though he'd yet to get the prize for being one of the Bay Area's most annoying executives when we...


Tap your right foot if you want to leave Yahoo

To find Yahoos ready to bolt, recruiters are taking a wide stance. Cake Financial, a startup, occupies the same building in SoMa as Yahoo's San Francisco incubator, Brickhouse. Employees at Cake plastered Yahoo's entrance and building restrooms...


Yahoo fires Salim Ismail, far too late

We hear that Bradley Horowitz, Yahoo's advanced-produts czar, has finally fired Salim Ismail, the head of Yahoo's Brickhouse incubator in San Francisco. Today's layoffs likely provided a convenient excuse to get rid of Ismail, a suavely...


Data analysis indicates you should go out tonight

Want to hear from one of the geniuses who worked on pricing subprime mortgages? Facebook's Jeff Hammerbacher speaks at Yahoo Brickhouse today at noon. While you're there, ask Brickhouse manager Salim Ismail about his trouble with the taxman. If...


Yahoo Brickhouse exec in the doghouse

When you can't take market share, take credit. That's the unspoken motto of Yahoo since Google overshadowed the Web pioneer, and no one has mastered the art like Salim Ismail, the desperately unpopular VP in charge of Yahoo Brickhouse, the San...


Today's most popular stories are JOURNALIST MATH (1,592 views) CAREERS (1,451 views) GREAT MOMENTS IN JOURNALISM (1,289 views) Today's most discussed stories are


Today's most popular headlines are Facebook exec grilled on creepy ads (1,219 views today), Yahoo Brickhouse exec in the doghouse (877) and Google to devour "You Be the VC" winner? (738). Today's most discussed stories are Google and Yahoo's...


Pay no attention to the layoffs behind the curtain

Desperate to deflect attention from impending layoffs, Yahoo's top management has put pressure on the ranks to deliver some splashy product launches and distract the media. Gullible as the tech press corp is, they'll likely fall for it. A top...


Game shows and lectures

Go to a game show with your favorite videobloggers, get all scholarly, or spy on Yahoo's new digs, all in tonight's Valleywag Calendar.


The taxman cometh to Yahoo

Salim Ismail's incompetence as a manager may have brought the wrath of the IRS down on Yahoo. One of his employees at Brickhouse, Yahoo's San Francisco incubator, has moved abroad while being classified, for tax purposes, as "working at home."...


Talks talks talks

Have a Mighty mobile meetup, interface intelligently, or talk to some real rocket scientists in today's Valleywag Calendar.


Pimp your blog, your cell phone, your login process

Tonight in Palo Alto, InternetGeekGirl, Bub.blicio.us and friends have a meetup in MacArthur Park. (Yum!) Bug Labs is talking open source hardware and the future of consumer electronics. Peter Nixey, CEO of startup Clickpass, holds a "sharing is...


Can Salim Ismail locate reality at Yahoo?

A press tour is oft the last refuge of a scoundrel. Salim Ismail, the pushy head of Yahoo's Brickhouse incubator in San Francisco and newest Silicon Valley Tool, is still talking up Fire Eagle, an admittedly useful software tool for broadcasting...


2.0 parties to Twitter about

Internerds who drink together will blog, post photos, and Twitter about it together. If reading about last night's festivities via RSS made you feel lonely, here are tonight's chances for a do-over. The Expo-sponsored South Park bar crawl promises...


Get some personal contact

The San Francisco American Marketing Association's monthly meeting today is titled "Relationships Aren't Virtual: In a Web 2.0 World Why Personal Contact Matters." Well, duh. Melissa could have told you that. Six Apart is hosting a...


Horowitz says goodbye to Yahoo

Former Yahoo VP Bradley Horowitz left the company for Google Tuesday. Yesterday, he posted a 1,200-word explanation. Here's the readable version.


Dickerson draws short straw, takes over for Gatz at Yahoo

As we reported first, Yahoo's Scott Gatz confirms he's leaving. Chad Dickerson will move from the Yahoo Developer Network to take over running Advanced Products. This is hardly a promotion for Dickerson; we hear he had a falling out with his boss...


Farking events

Tonight, meet and greet and meet and greet. Startup networking, the future of music, and some guy from Kentucky will all be out in today's Valleywag Calendar.


Happy Halloween!

If you don't go out tonight, we're scared. Not of you, but for you. For what's going on tonight, check out the Valleywag Calendar.


San Jose Mercury News adds video, fails at that too

NICK DOUGLAS — Ever been at the bar at 2 A.M. and see one of those striped-shirt bridge-and-tunnel guys make a desperate last-call pass at the sketchiest girl in the establishment? It looks like the video partnership between the San Jose...


The wrong hire for Yahoo

Salim Ismail, incoming head of Yahoo's new incubator, is a perfectly charming staple of Manhattan internet parties and, since he moved to the West Coast, the South of Market tech scene. But here's the brutal truth: the last person the Sunnyvale...


It's for charity, people

Tonight, a charity auction and spontaneous drinking vie for your attention. And, for some reason, everything tonight starts at 6 p.m. To overbook your evening, check out our Valleywag Calendar.


Take this Wikipedia and shove it

Elevation Partners — you know, the hedge fund with added Bono — threw a party for Wikipedia at the Third Street Grill. The big news was that Wikipedia has updated its license to be compatible with Larry Lessig's Creative Commons, which...


Yahoo Photos shutting down, Flickr triumphant?

Time to upgrade this from rumor to unannounced fact — that's our bet, anyway. "Consolidation" was the word seized upon most in Yahoo exec Brad Garlinghouse's "Peanut Butter Manifesto." And consolidating the duplicate services provided by...