6 posts and columns on Ted Ullyot

Facebook Smacks Back at Yahoo With Patent Claims in Counter-Lawsuit

in News on April 3 at 11:13 am PT

The other shoe in the Facebook-Yahoo patent fight just dropped.
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So It’s the Kodak Strategy for Yahoo — The Last Refuge of the Vaguely Patented

in News on February 28 at 6:00 am PT

In poking Facebook, Yahoo might now learn what it is really like to be de-friended.
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Dubya to Zuckerberg: We Have So Much in Common!

in Social on November 29, 2010 at 4:17 pm PT

Two awkward powerful dudes came together today, and demonstrated that they have a lot in common. They were former U.S. President George W. Bush and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Bush’s visit to Facebook was his only stop in Silicon Valley on his current autobiographical book tour, a coup for the six-year-old company. Zuckerberg had kind words for the former president, telling him he “always admired” him for sticking to his guns, despite criticism.

The Entire Facebook Goodbye-Gideon-We-Are-the-Money-Champions Memo

in News on April 2, 2009 at 9:02 am PT

Dear Elliot Schrage: BoomTown wins. As Sheryl knows from experience, don’t mess with the Swish. Or Texas. Or Zohan. Just don’t mess. For everyone else, here is the entire memo that Facebook sent out this week to its staff about the departure of CFO Gideon Yu and the financial status of the social-networking start-up, which some had been questioning.
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Weekend Update, 10/03/08

in News on October 4, 2008 at 4:49 pm PT

The week ending Oct. 3, 2008 was a momentous one, and not solely because of ongoing McCain-Obama high jinks like Tina Fey’s encore as Sarah Palin on “Saturday Night Live” or the one and only Web site where you can decide the race in a Kung-Fu Election. First and foremost, this week’s big slide on Wall Street hit tech stocks with a vengeance, too, disproving Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s assertion a little more than a week ago: “My guess is that the drama is New York and not here.” Ouch. But don’t say BoomTown didn’t warn you. Ted Ullyot, Facebook’s new general counsel, has “strong ties to the Republican Party.” Including a stint in former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s office, where, as chief of staff, he handled the government’s response to the the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame’s indentity. “Ted’s arrival demonstrates we’re a little more grown up.” No word on whether or not you need to change your status immediately.”

Cue Anti-Ullyot Facebook Groups in 3 … 2 … 1

in News on October 1, 2008 at 6:52 am PT

“Ted has extremely strong connections with the Republican party, and we think that’s a good thing.” That’s what Elliot Schrage, Facebook’s vice president of communications and public policy, had to say about Ted Ullyot, who joins the company as its vice president and general counsel this month.