Cal Henderson

Weekend Update 5.03.09–Special Musical Chairs Edition

Beth Callaghan in News on May 2, 2009 at 12:00 am PT

If there was an over-arching theme for this last week on All Things D, it would have to be musical chairs. Brand new MySpace CEO Owen Van Natta started things off Monday with his first day on the job. He was joined by new COO and former AOL exec Mike Jones and new chief product officer and former Sling Media exec Jason Hirschhorn.

Flickr Co-Founder Butterfield and Chief Architect Henderson Working on Stealth Start-Up

Kara Swisher in News on April 30, 2009 at 2:48 am PT

Yesterday, several Flickr engineers posted news of their layoffs from the Yahoo photo-sharing unit on Twitter, which caused GigaOm’s Om Malik to notice that Flickr architect Cal Henderson was also no longer on its About page. According to several sources I spoke to, Henderson was actually not laid off at Yahoo, but is leaving to start a new company–in the social-gaming arena, I am told–with Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield. He and several other of the original core development team for Flickr transitioned out or have been transitioning out for quite some time, sources said.