Answer (1 of 74): Since I haven't seen a response from anyone about Yahoo!'s social networking platforms (yes plural), I thought I'd add some notes. I worked at Yahoo! from 2004 to 2011. At the start I worked on a platform called yblogs. It was an internal product, but ended up being the back ...
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