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March 16, 2007

Salim Ismail joins Yahoo's Brickhouse

Salim Ismail, a founder of PubSub and then of Confabb.com has joined Flickr's Caterina Fake running Yahoo's Brickhouse, a semi-autonomous unit that's supposed to innovate, innovate, innovate. (You can read about it in the blog of Bradley Horowitz, Salim's new boss, among other places.)

Salim is going to stay at Confabb as chairman. (Disclosure: I'm on Confabb's board of advisors.) But clearly his focus will be on Brickhouse, the type of fun enterprise companies like Yahoo are very smart to start up. And Salim is a great choice for it. (Brickhouse is behind Yahoo Pipes.) [Tags: salim_ismail yahoo confabb brickhouse business caterina_fake pubsub]

Posted by D. Weinberger at March 16, 2007 09:38 PM

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This is a strong match, I think. Salim's got a great sense of what the good ideas are, and the drive and direction to pull everything together to make them happen. (Disclosure: I built a big chunk of Confabb.)

Posted by: Adam Fields | March 17, 2007 12:20 AM

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