Dylan’s Desk: It’s the season for Monday-morning quarterbacking

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As the San Francisco 49ers fumbled their shot at …

Node at scale: What Google, Mozilla, & Yahoo are doing with Node.js

When the scale of your application is “everyone on the Internet,” you have to think a bit differently about adopting new technologies.

At the Node Summit today, a bevy of “big boy” company executives gathered to chat about Node.js, the …

Yahoo revenue down 13 percent in Q4, CEO says better execution needed

Yahoo‘s revenue dropped 13 percent compared to the same period last year, the company reported today. In its quarterly earnings’ announcement Tuesday, Yahoo reported $1,324 million in GAAP revenue for the fourth quarter of 2011, while costs increased by 10 …

The lights fade at Flickr in site-wide SOPA protest

Flickr is letting the people of the web suck the life and beauty out of its site today.

The Yahoo-owned photo-sharing service is encouraging members to darken photos for a 24-hour period with a “Darken this photo” call-to-action on each …

Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang resigns from board of directors and all other roles

Yahoo co-founder and former CEO Jerry Yang has resigned from the Yahoo board of directors and all other positions, the company announced late today. Yang also resigned from the boards of Yahoo Japan and Alibaba Group.

In a letter to …

Obama’s anti-SOPA stance seeks compromise to Silicon Valley-Hollywood standoff

Updated with response from the pro-SOPA lobby

The Obama administration issued a statement earlier today saying that it supports a serious legislative response to piracy problems but will not support legislation that reduces freedom of expression, increases cybersecurity risk or …