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Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo and CEO since June 2007, is stepping down from the Chief Executive Officer position as soon as Yahoo find suitable person replace his position. Jerry Yang will be staying in the role of “Chief Yahoo” and maintaining a seat on the company’s board of directors.

In a statement released by Yahoo’s company Chairman Roy Bostock says: “Jerry and the Board have had an ongoing dialogue about succession timing, and we all agree that now is the right time to make the transition to a new CEO who can take the company to the next level. We are deeply grateful to Jerry for his many contributions as CEO over the past 18 months, and we are pleased that he plans to stay actively involved at Yahoo! as a key executive and member of the Board.”

After Yahoo rejecting Microsoft’s offer to acquire the company for $31/share earlier this year, Yahoo has slipped all the way to a recent low of $10.32 amidst its own internal problems and the broader economic slowdown, market believe this could be strong reason why Jerry Yang decide to leave the CEO position.

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Friendster.com had finally came out with their latest service update explain about what actually happened for their recently long schedule site maintenance.

According their official blog, friendster’s unscheduled downtime was due to a power outage at their outsourced data center in Santa Clara, California where Friendster’s servers are co-located along side approximately 50 other companies. As a result, Friendster, as well as a number of other online companies, experienced unscheduled and unavoidable downtime. At this time, Friendster is back online and their team is working quickly to restore everything back to normal.

This 6th and 7th December, there will be a new revolution in Johor Bahru – the South Corridor of Malaysia.

The communities of Bloggers, Geeks and Entrepreneurs have come together. They will be having their very first BarCampJB. Thanks for Cheryl Goh invitation, i will give a 30 minutes talk on the first day 6th December, 15:30 to 16:00, right after James Yeang (friedbeef.com) session. This is my very first talk in public with the name of blogger and will share my topic of “How to Utilize Online Social Networking to Built Your Blog Reader and Grow Your Business!”

For those who are new, BarCamp is a Free admission unconference event for sharing and learning that is organized all over the world by volunteers. It is an open platform where every one attends, volunteers to help out in the event one way or another. Participants either create sessions, help out in the organizing, spread the message of barcamp or be an active participant in the sessions. In short, this it a Web2.0 in a form of an event.

Note : I will also live moblog the event, if you love to learn the latest update, please subscribe to my feed or email updates for free.

For WordPress Users:

Don’t mistype “wordpress.org” because you could end up downloading compromised code designed by some hackers whereby they have set up www.wordpresz.org. The code will sends cookie contents to a hacked program hosted on wordpresz.org and could expose passwords and other identifying information.

Please pass this information around and share with your WordPress mates!

Jerry Says……

The best way to prevent key in wrong domain name was using bookmark / add to favourite function in your web browser, Firefox 3 did a good job on that, when i type “Jerry” in my firefox, it will drop down a list of related web link related like “http://jerryong.com” and etc. Remember, bookmark your favourite sites help to prevent similar experience.

via [crunch gear]