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gcb on April 4, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Yahoo announces 2,000 job cuts

Two layoffs ago they cut 'brick house' which was a hands-on innovation cell, purveyors of live.yahoo.com (a 2007 version of chatroullete with many more features and 5-way video chat) and fire eagle, the GEO standard, and other nice stuff.

man, it's depressing to count a company history in 'layoffs'

simplekoala on April 4, 2012 [–]

5 way video chat == Google hangouts?

drgath on April 5, 2012 | [–]

Yup. They are similar. Yahoo! Live was pretty awesome.

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