We are not creating another social network. We will rewire the entire experience to make it social. We don’t think of social as a destination but as a dimension.”
–Yahoo CTO Ari Balogh on the company’s plan to make itself sound more valuable by turning its portal into a social network
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John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.
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