In the ongoing game of Internet exec musical chairs, Greg Coleman, who has been a top exec at both Yahoo and AOL, is poised to become president of the Huffington Post, as well as chief revenue officer, several sources said.

The deal for Coleman to come on board at the privately held online news site–which has grown significantly over the last year and just added well-known online media exec Eric Hippeau as CEO–came together only recently.

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Longtime Yahoo exec Brad Garlinghouse’s appointment to a new job at AOL today is yet another sign of an interesting trend for those keeping score of the comings and goings of top Internet execs.

As anyone who watches the digital space knows by now, this kind of management musical chairs is common and never-ending, although it seems more frantic than ever of late.

In fact, borrowing a quote by IAC/InterActiveCorp chairman and CEO Barry Diller from an onstage interview I did with him at the sixth D: All Things Digital conference, and switching out Hollywood for Silicon Valley: “[It] is a community that’s so inbred, it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.”

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Wenda Harris Millard–calling in to BoomTown HQ from a cruise either on the way to or the way from Slovenia, since she said she was not exactly sure, given that it was the middle of the night there–wanted to make one thing clear:

She is still working for her other dozens of clients at Media Link as its president, but also has a big new gig helping MySpace get its advertising sales house in order, especially related to strategy and execution.

“I guess it’s a matter of semantics, but I will be leading the engagement,” said Millard. “But we have a whole team here too, and I am also still working for all our great clients.”

Okay, people?!? Which is, in Slovenian, in case anyone asks there, Wenda: Vidirati narod?

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In a move that will surely have Madison Avenue talking, well-known online advertising sales executive Wenda Harris Millard–who is now president of New York- and Los Angeles-based media consultancy Media Link–is poised to take over all advertising sales at MySpace, sources said.

But, in an unusual twist, the former Yahoo and Martha Stewart exec will remain in her job at Media Link, which has also been hired by MySpace to advise on restructuring the social networking company’s salesforce.

Current President of Sales and Marketing Jeff Berman will be leaving the company, MySpace has told employees via an internal memo.

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When I was recently in New York, I enjoyed a delicious breakfast, with a side of video interview, with Wenda Harris Millard.

She was recently named co-CEO of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia (aka the House Martha Built With Her Trusty Glue Gun).

Millard went to MSLO after many years of building and running Yahoo’s ad business (previous to that stint, she worked at DoubleClick in its earliest days).

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If Lloyd Braun, former Yahoo exec in charge of juicing entertainment who left under a cloud, could poach a few execs from the troubled Internet giant, so can former sales head Wenda Harris Millard, who also left Yahoo earlier this year after a rocky goodbye with management.

She has apparently grabbed Vice President of Sales Strategy [...]

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Will this be the last shoe to drop–at least this month–at Yahoo?

Tomorrow, the struggling Internet search giant will announce its second quarter earnings at 5 p.m. EDT (2 p.m. PDT).
The company is expected to have no gain in profit year to year. That translates to 11 cents a share for the quarter on $1.24 billion [...]

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Now that I have gotten back from a dusty vacation, I can return to my obsessive quest to figure out what Yahoo should do to improve its prospects pronto.
I noted a few weeks ago here that is was time to stop with all the recriminations related to its management turmoil and try to look [...]

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I got a lot of great response to this post I did yesterday about starting on a blogging journey to figure out what to do at Yahoo.

So before I get all blabby–and I will, my friends–here’s some ideas I got over the transom for helping the Internet giant find its way back to a more [...]

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OK, I am officially starting to get weary writing about management and PR snafus at Yahoo, so I am turning my attention to the positive.
Unless, of course, there is another corporate misstep.
(It could happen.)
But starting tomorrow, I will begin to explore each part of the Internet giant–and, despite all the bad karma swirling around [...]

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My post yesterday about the treatment of former Yahoo sales chief Wenda Harris Millard as she left the company certainly resulted in a spate of calls to me from Yahoos past and present.

That included Millard herself, who called me back this morning from New York to talk about her leaving the company for another high-profile [...]

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When I wrote that Wenda Harris Millard had better watch her back last week, in a post I did about my educated guesses about further executive departures at Yahoo, I had no idea that the struggling company was that quick about anything. In fact, the longtime ad sales chief was out by this weekend, moving on to another job at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia as its president of media.

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While it’s corporate sport to focus on the ins and outs of the departure of Terry Semel–was he pushed or did he motor out of Yahoo on his own or, the truth, a little of both?–it’s probably a better idea to look at what will come in the days ahead for Yahoo’s ranks.
Sources tell me [...]

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