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...father finds steady carpentry work at circus impresario Philip Astley’s amphitheater on the outskirts of London. Jem and Maisie, having grown up in a community of thirty families, thus find themselves loosed on the raucous streets of the burgeoning metropolis.The street-smart and scrappy Maggie Butterfield takes Jem under her wing and the two run the gauntlet of 18th-century London’s diversions, singing along to the bawdy songs of hurdy-gurdy players and tasting beer in pubs where flies circle the mugs and idlers hotly debate the increasing radicalism of the revolution in France.They...
Significantly, Semel (who declined TIME's request for an interview) is getting Yahoo! to decide what it wants to be when it grows up. "There's always been some ambiguity about whether it's a tech company or a media company," says Stewart Butterfield, Yahoo!'s director of product management and co-founder of the photo site Flickr, which Yahoo! acquired in March 2005. "But there's been a shift in the internal messaging. I never hear execs refer to Yahoo! as a media company. A year and a half ago, there wasn't a satisfying articulation of what...
...Flickr deal turned out to be a critical one. Butterfield says he chose to sell to Yahoo! rather than Google because the former was a more disciplined company. "At that time, Google was especially chaotic," says Butterfield. Google bought YouTube, which has generated a mountain of buzz, but Yahoo! has quietly leveraged Flickr, Answers and Del.icio.us, among other recent acquisitions and launches, to get its audience--which includes nearly half of the world's Web users--to spend more time on its network of sites. Yahoo!'s new ad system will capitalize on their presence--and on data it collects...
...David M. Butterfield ’07 figured that yesterday’s trip to the Coop would be the least expensive of his college career—after all, he wasn’t purchasing any coursepacks...
...Setting the Record Straight Picture this Our May 8 story on Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield, the founders of Flickr, a photo-sharing website, incorrectly stated that the idea for Flickr came from an engineer who created an easy way to post pictures on the Web. The idea was entirely Butterfield...