Fact Checking CNet's Yahoo! Developer Network Story

While I'm happy to see CNet writing about the Yahoo! Developer Network in Yahoo seeks geek credibility, the article contains several factual errors--you know, the kind that can be easily checked by googling.

Fist off, Brad Garlinghouse did not co-found Flickr.

But that steady stream of acquisitions has created overlap with other Yahoo properties, a problem highlighted by Flickr co-founder and now Yahoo senior vice president Brad Garlinghouse in a leaked memo called the Peanut Butter Manifesto.

The co-founders of Flickr were husband and wife combo Stewart and Caterina, as is evidenced by Newsweek a few months back.

Secondly, the Yahoo! Developer Network has been around far longer than "last March."

Web heavyweights Amazon.com, eBay, Google and Microsoft have made developer loyalty a high priority. Yahoo, which launched its Developer Network last March, has taken that tack as well.

I searched for "yahoo developer network launch" and found a page full of announcements from February 2005. That's nearly two years ago.

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Source: http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/008017.html
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