Chris O’Brien

The Curse Heard Round the Globe–Well, Actually, Just the Web, But It's a Start for Yahoo

Kara Swisher in News on June 3, 2009 at 7:00 am PT

San Jose Mercury News columnist Chris O’Brien made a lot of humorous hay at the expense of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz yesterday, in a joke piece called: “Bartz Unveils New &*%! Strategy for Yahoo.” O’Brien cleverly created a fictional transcript of a Yahoo staff meeting where Bartz–by now, well-known for her salty language–lets loose in an address about just how sick she was of competitors getting all the good press: “So we’re re-branding the company around excessive use of profanity. Our new marketing slogan will be, ‘Yahoo, (expletive) yeah!’” Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Wondering if AOL Is About to Kill Your Favorite Service? We Can Tell You

Peter Kafka in Media on November 17, 2008 at 3:00 am PT

AOL is about to shut down its Uncut/AOL Video Upload service, a move that caused a small stir over the weekend. But the move wasn’t actually news: Uncut has been on AOL’s hit list–some 50+ projects that the company is shutting down–for quite some time. We’ve got the complete list here.