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Marissa Mayer: A brief history of Yahoo’s new CEO
Marissa Mayer started as the CEO of Yahoo today, after spending the last 13-or-so years at Google managing various products at different times, including its most profitable (search) as well as its most fanciful (Google Doodles). But regardless of her shifting roles and titles, Mayer has been one of Google’s most public faces for years.
As the Google executive in charge of user experience—that is, determining what best served search users—she had an acute sense of things engineers can’t easily measure, like design. Even when she rejected an idea, as she usually did, she did so in a comforting way that said she welcomed more ideas, more effort, from the young engineer. I don’t know that Mayer can produce a happy ending to the Yahoo saga, but a defeated culture like Yahoo needs both encouragement and leadership.
Ken Auletta: Can Marissa Mayer Save Yahoo? : The New Yorker
Google Glass’ awkward interactions parodied on ‘Saturday Night Live’
Google Glass and its new approach to a constantly-connected lifestyle has already been the butt of a number of jokes, including Tumblr blogs devoted to showing how ridiculous the device can be. On Saturday’s new episode of Saturday Night Live, the writers of Weekend Update also got into the fray, with fictional tech blogger Randall Meeks and his new Google Glass joining the news desk to speak to Seth Meyers.
If we don’t make you cry, we fail,” Ms. Twohill said. “It’s about emotion, which is bizarre for a tech company.
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![Yahoo won’t restrict porn on Tumblr
During Yahoo’s event this evening, CEO Marissa Mayer said that “we don’t intend to [restrict content on Tumblr],” answering one of the most pressing questions for many users of the service since rumors of the $1.1...](https://64.media.tumblr.com/4a6a7fab11f2ec5b998ee5b539287449/tumblr_mn4akh6yZh1r3kmkso1_640.png)
Yahoo won’t restrict porn on Tumblr
During Yahoo’s event this evening, CEO Marissa Mayer said that “we don’t intend to [restrict content on Tumblr],” answering one of the most pressing questions for many users of the service since rumors of the $1.1 billion acquisition began to swirl. However, Mayer suggested that Yahoo could utilize an “NSFW” (not safe for work) feature to label controversial content on the network — but not additional details were provided on how such a system might work.
Say hello to Yahoo’s new logo. After changing its purple wordmark every day for the past month, Yahoo revealed the winner tonight. It’s part of an effort from CEO Marissa Mayer to give inject some fresh visual interest into the venerable tech brand, while keeping the familiar color and exclamation point.
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