This is the Yahoo t-shirt I wore today: Musicmatch Yahoo announced it was acquiring Musicmatch on September 14, 2004. I got this t-shirt way earlier than that, but since they’re now part of Yahoo, it counts. The shirt was part of the gift bag from the WebNoize conference in 1999 where LAUNCHcast was introduced. Acquired: …
This is the Yahoo t-shirt I wore today: Search and Marketplace Reloaded One of the benefits of working at Yahoo is free movie tickets. Whenever a big movie comes out, some group will probably buy out an entire theater and give out the tickets. The most recent one was Mission Impossible III, but back in …
This is the Yahoo t-shirt I wore today: I’m a Yahoo Tech Monkey The Yahoo! Marketing Department does a lot of Amazing stuff, but counting does not seem to be their forte. Whenever we do some kind of promotion, there’s way more t-shirts left than were needed. But I appreciate it when there’s cool t-shirts …
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This is the Yahoo t-shirt I wore today: LAUNCH This is an “acquired company” shirt which I got at some point when I worked down there. We affectionately referred to the logo on the front as the “rat”. It it actually a reversed sound wave of someone saying “LAUNCH”. Acquired: 2000? Rating: 3.5/5
Yahoo t-shirt I wore today: Flickr Fiesta This party happened six months after Flickr was aquired by Yahoo, probably to reassure the Flickr users that the Flickr team hadn’t turned evil after they became part of a big company. I do remember the food being good and hanging out and chatting with a lot of …
I’m not sure what Vendor Splendor is all about. Once a year, all the companies that Yahoo does business with – the airlines, hotels, cell phone providers, office supply companies and bunch of others that I have no idea what they sell set up tables in the quad of the main campus. Your average peon …
One of the perks of working at Yahoo! is what seems to be an endless supply of free t-shirts. I’ve collected quite a few over the last 5 years and I rarely wear most of them. Bored of my usual shirts, I’ve decided to try to wear a different Yahoo! t-shirt every workday for the …