Y-Office isnt a Joke : Upcoming.org Joins

maybe they are lost
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The Sun-G-Office non event non-announcement. NASA viagra one day; Limp Sausage the next. People are just hurting themselves with such expectations of G-Amazingness. Its like Lost - They won't let you go on the Raft. Let alone the G-Nasa bio-info-nanatics Space-Craft. I doubt you'd even be allowed to intern if Danah Boyds recollection of Sergey's 'quote-feelings-unquote' on non-machine (gattaca insert :"Unacceptable risk of heart failure." I think that's what the manual says. The only trip I'll take in space is around the sun on this satellite right here."), librarian humans is true; ("He really rattled some feathers though with his response to the semantic web, tagging and librarianship. He took the techno-centric point of view that is so Google. Tagging inverts the relationship between man and machine. Tagging is only of interest and valuable if machines do it. Technology is just as good as experts and it's a waste of the expert's time to bother trying. A good quote from this section was "Experiments like Esperanto have failed." One of my professors was really outraged by all of this - i thought his head was going to blow off. God it was painful. Will Google ever understand that culture has value? I guess not so long as technodeterminism is profitable. Gah.") G-Office is a ways off if you ask me. While Yahoo buy Upcoming.org : A kewl social calendaring company. Feel the Y-Love, from the Upcoming' Founder : "I've always had a warm and fuzzy feeling about Yahoo. It's been my browser homepage since forever, and I still have akebono.stanford.edu / yahoo/ stuck in muscle memory. Recently, the nostalgia has been replaced by admiration as I've watched them making smart decisions, acquiring great companies (Flickr, anyone?), and hiring all of my friends. The end result is that they're doing some of the most interesting work online, and I found myself linking to them more and more over the last year."

Returning the Y-Feeling is their GM of Local :"In just a few years, most of it spent on nights and weekends, the Upcoming team has built an excellent site with a loyal and growing following. Now that they’ve joined Yahoo!, together we’ll build a social events platform that will integrate with our existing events offering and other areas of Y!, and will continue to support all web users in an open, participatory way."