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Monday, December 15, 2008

Attack of the Purple People Meeters: An Ex-Yahoo Helps Other Ex-Yahoos

Here’s an interesting site, created by an ex-Yahoo for ex-Yahoos to help them find jobs. Launched today by Ryan Kuder (along with a non-Yahoo, Jonathan Tarud), it’s called the Purple People Collective. Purple, of course, is the main color at Yahoo and “bleed purple” is one of its more unfortunate favorite expressions. Kuder, if you will recall, did a very funny Twitter stream about his own layoff in February

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Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »

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Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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