Yahoo! Cool Thing of the Day

Just a quick note to... uhm... note that very early this morning Yahoo! launched it's official company blog at http://yodel.yahoo.com/.

It's still a bit early to get a good feel for it, but considering we've already got a blog that deals with press releases, this won't just duplicate them.

And since I'm an old, cynical hand, let me add a few things to the Yahoo! video walkthrough:

• The coffee, tea, chai, lattes and the like are free. Smoothies aren't, they're $2. Likewise fountain sodas are free. You can get cans of soda for $.25, and juices for $.45 from the various vending machines (Pepsi and Coke machines alternate floors.)
• That big fiberglass cow was part of the Chicago parade of cows. It does email and has a terminal built in.
• We actually do work here too, but I'm guessing showing aisle after aisle of head down engineers doesn't project "fun".
• I'm a bigger fan of the salad bar, but then again, that seldomly explodes into a ball of flame.
• Yeah, we pay for our chow, but it's around $5 a plate, and you don't go hungry.
• We get a lot of fairly big name bands playing here as part of promo tours, bands you've actually heard of. (Sister Hazel, Better Than Ezra, Brandi Carlile, etc.) I... I really have no idea why. I'm not sure they do either.

I've added it to the list on the right, and hopefully Carlo will be adding it to the planetYahoo! feed.

(And I'll try to have something more in the "Cool Thing" category later.)

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