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We're hiring at Brickhouse, our San Francisco office at the corner of 3rd and Bryant, where there are lots of great things happening. If you like working on small startup-like teams to deliver products like Fire Eagle and Yahoo! Live and invent entirely new things, then check out the openings below. If you're interested, email me (chadd at yahoo-inc dot com) and tell me why you're perfect for one of the roles.

Software Engineer, Brickhouse (you will be working on Fire Eagle initially)

Community Manager, Advanced Products / Yahoo! Live

Flash Developer, Yahoo! Live

(Photo from our very own Tom Coates)

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This week at Brickhouse, it's all about hosting organizations we love who just happen to have all-caps names. On Wednesday, our friends at NASA are visiting to tell us about their World Wind project, an open source 3D interactive world viewer. Patrick Hogan, Project Manager and Randy Kim, UI, Data and Graphics Lead will be joining us. Sign up on Upcoming. This is part of our continued hosting and support of the Luna Philosophie series from the NASA CoLab team.

On Thursday, we have Stefan Magdalinski from MOO talking about the MOO API and how you can use it to produce and deliver beautiful and delightful cards, stickers, and postcards from MOO. See all the event details on Upcoming.

Both events include the requisite pizza and beer. Stay tuned for more Brickhouse events!

Photo credits: Richard Moross and NASA/Reto Stöckli

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Leonard Lin put together an excellent list of the presentations at Web 2.0 Expo, complete with links to slides and video when available. All of the presentations are worth checking out, but I wanted to point out the ones on the list from Yahoo (not all slides are available yet -- we will add to the list as they become available):

A Flickr approach to Making Sense of the World, from Rev Dan Catt of Flickr

Capacity Planning for Web Operations, from John Allspaw of Flickr

Grasping Social Patterns, from Christian Crumlish of Yahoo! Developer Network (from Ignite SF)

Tagging: Opportunities and Challenges of Scale, from Kakul Srivastava of Flickr

Also, be sure to check out CTO Ari Balogh's keynote in which he introduces Y!OS (the Yahoo! Open Strategy) and Neal Sample's deep-dive into Y!OS.

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Over the past couple of months, we've been quietly working at Brickhouse and focusing on what matters most: delivering delightful new products. In February and March, the teams at Brickhouse were busy shipping Yahoo! Live (which launched on February 7) and Fire Eagle (launched March 5). Both are thriving in their early days.

Yahoo! Live, our experiment in social broadcasting, has been blowing the doors off, hitting over a million users in its first few weeks. We've featured broadcasters ranging from rock stars (Motley Crue) to well-known DJs (Paul Oakenfold at the Winter Music Conference) to emerging stars like Sheena Melwani. Yahoo! Live can be purely entertaining, but it also touches people's lives in wonderfully unexpected ways. Just as one example, the deaf community quickly discovered Live and created the DeafRead channel, which has become an all-hours gathering spot for signing and chatting (reading this testimonial really warmed my heart). Yahoo! Live has become a truly meaningful "third place" for all types of social interactions. With a full-featured developer API, developers can build their own experiences around the Live platform, too.

Fire Eagle launched as an invite-only developer beta barely six weeks ago and is building momentum as we move towards a general release (request an invite at the Fire Eagle home page). On the day we launched, Marshall Kirkpatrick at ReadWriteWeb wrote: "Standards based platform plus strong privacy equals the best scenario I can imagine for a location tracking service. We'll see what kinds of innovative applications get built on top of it." Well, the developer community has responded with enthusiasm and new applications are emerging regularly. If you have an invite, you can already leverage Fire Eagle in a growing gallery of applications including Dopplr, Firebot, Dashboard widgets for OS X (dmg file), Loki toolbar for IE/Firefox, a Movable Type plugin, Navizon, Wikinear, and ZoneTag. Aside from the applications listed in our gallery, many other developer partners have integrated with Fire Eagle or will be integrating soon: Plazes, Outside.in (details here), Lightpole, Rummble, plus many more in the pipeline. If you would like to become a Fire Eagle developer, join the developer group.

We're excited about Yahoo! Live and Fire Eagle, and this week's Web 2.0 Expo (taking place just down the street from us at Brickhouse in San Francisco) gives us the perfect opportunity to thank the communities who have helped these projects do so well in their first several weeks, so we're throwing a party in the Brickhouse space as part of the "South Park Crawl." Just RSVP on Upcoming or show us your Web 2.0 Expo pass to get in. The Fire Eagle and Live teams will be on hand and we'll have loads of Fire Eagle invites, a couple of our favorite DJs from Yahoo! Live, and plenty of beer. Be sure to use Fireball "Web 2.0 Expo edition" (a Fire Eagle / Twitter / Upcoming app that just launched last night!) to find out where your friends are during the show.

Thank you for using Fire Eagle and Yahoo! Live, and see you at the party!

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