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Exclusive: Former Yahoo and Microsoft Exec Dossett to Demand Media

Kara Swisher in News on October 16, 2010 at 1:23 am PT

According to sources, Jeff Dossett–who has held top online jobs at both Yahoo and Microsoft–has taken a job at Demand Media as its SVP of Content Partnership Development. The Santa Monica, Calif.-based Demand, which sources said is now prepping its road show for its upcoming IPO, has been picking up big company execs to add to its roster.

Departing Yahoo Media Exec Dossett to AdventureLink as CEO

Kara Swisher in News on May 29, 2009 at 5:16 am PT

Yesterday, BoomTown wrote that Yahoo’s SVP North American Audience, Jeff Dossett, was leaving the Internet company after a very short stint there, because of personal reasons. But I also noted that sources said he was likely to quickly land at a start-up, and in fact, he has resigned from Yahoo to do just that. Dossett, who came to Yahoo from Microsoft in November, is taking a job as CEO of AdventureLink, an online site aimed at adventure travel and booking such trips.

Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow… 3-D Digital Ski Slopes Even Cooler

Kara Swisher in News on February 17, 2009 at 12:00 pm PT

Wishing I had had the foresight to head up to the Sierras in California before they finally got a ton of snow dumped on them this past week, I was fiddling around the Web looking for various ski sites as a way to approximate being there. And, like all things in mapping, the best way to see slopes is now in 3-D, the technology that is going to become more and more prevalent on the mostly flat Internet in the years ahead–and well beyond obvious applications.