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Yahoo fed Google secrets to TechCrunch

valleywag.com — You've probably read the buzz about Google Calendar on TechCrunch. The story behind how he got the screen shots is even more interesting... Obviously, he knows a number of people at Yahoo!. He was able to track down the Product Manager over there that got into the Google Early Tester and finagled the screen shots out of him.

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  • techcrunch, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39Just for the record, Yahoo did not send me the screen shots. Funny how this stuff gets picked up though.
  • freeshri, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14link to techcrunch post:

    http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/03/08/exclusive-screenshots-google-calendar/
  • techcrunch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13One of the beta testers supplied them.
  • thegeekpea, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13If Google wants to steal Yahoo's users they will need to incorporate importing functionality into CL2 and Gmail for that matter. People (like myself) who already have so many emails and calendar events in one site usually want to keep that and not abandon it entirely.
  • recursive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15The crunch in techcrunch refers to the sounds the images make when they cram them into the layout
  • opnotic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+12No problem really. TechCrunch is so anal about their table formating that they never post a picture bigger than 640 anyway. Pictures on TechCrunch are almost always useless. They don't seem to believe in linking to bigger pictures for some reason.
  • phil.busch, on 10/18/2007, -2/+10Don't listen to the guy who critized you for not being at your computer to read digg all the damn time. Some of us have jobs, school, family, and lives to attend to.
  • heff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7A lot of people are missing the real issue here - Yahoo! didn't leak anything in hopes of doing anything to google. Yahoo! has product managers smuggled within Google's testing program - this gives them a HUGE competitive advantage and they can "spy" on google's activities and beat them to market.

    This is a major issue - to have your competitors within your secret testing programs.
  • sygyzy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9It's like Cloak and Dagger for geeks.
  • dirtyfratboy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7I don't think there are any detrimental effects to this "leak"... With all the buzz now, Google will probably benefit.
  • bitemegates, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6the moron level is getting awfully high around here.
  • mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -7/+10wow, what a retarded statement to make. if you work at yahoo, you have more fun in life!
  • floorpie, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Actually, it's not too hard to see what Google may have in the works... just take everything that Yahoo has, and Googleize it (ajax plus google colors). maps, google.com/ig, google news, google chat, gmail, google calendar. pretty soon you'll have horoscopes and pets (whoa! Yahoo has pets, i didn't know that.). I'm not saying Google products aren't well done (video ayone?), but they just improve preexisting stuff, and we all win -- competition is good.
  • tomvendetta, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3It is highly possible that techcrunge is lieing just so that he doesnt lose future opportunitys with said "insider" friend.
  • anorris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Anyone can act as a beta tester, it doesn't matter where you work.

    And in addition, TechCrunch has said their source wasn't Yahoo, and I believe them, because they are a reliable source with reliable information, over some blogger with an anonymous tipster.
  • sygyzy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2What makes you think they haven't?
  • techcrunch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2no, that is not possible.
  • saysaknow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Digg admins need to step in and add some kind of undetermined message in the title until things get straight. I mean, Techcrunch responded but that doesn't mean they're not fibbing.
  • pberry, on 10/12/2007, -7/+9It's not like Yahoo signed an NDA ;-)
  • twistx, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4How about we remove this story now since techcrunch just invalidated it himself.

    Valleywag's 'tipster' is apparently some tech conspiracy theororist.

    There's no need to continue to make Yahoo look bad since they had nothing to do with this.
  • tetfsu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2who's screening the beta participants at Google anyway? No one... they'll give a beta to anyone who has an "in" to get the invitation. If I were the guys at Yahoo!, I'd make sure I was on that beta list too, I'd want to see what our #1 competitor is doing as far out as possible.

    I'm just worried that stuff like this will keep people like me, with no real tech insider friends, from being able to participate in betas later on...
  • Protoss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Um yea..they work on innovation, take current products and make them a helluva lot better. Take Gmail for example, before that, you had 5MB of email space, and the interface was pretty crappy, but where else were we going to run?
  • anorris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I agree they do need to have syncing in the product, but as of now we don't know if they do/don't yet, and in addition I'm sure its a feature that would be added before its out of beta... whenever that happens...
  • anorris, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Agreed, marked as innaccurate, and i encourage others to do the same.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Shut the ***** up and stop spamming digg with all of the stories (50 in two days so far) linking to/through your stupid blog, saul.
  • PlancksCnst, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2It would be great if techcrunch or someone else posted a digg story to retract this one since some people only read the headlines.
  • balarkliang, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I find google cl2 URL: http://www.google.com/cl2,It is ture,but after you login in,Google report "The page you requested is invalid. "
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4Corporate espionage rears its ugly head.
  • btwebdesigns, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There's a program that's in beta called Accomplice which does much of the same stuff Google Calendar will do. Right now it's in private beta but I think they're looking for more testers if anyone's interested. (http://accomplice.com)
  • saysaknow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1In response to what I just said. This is not digg's information and it is not liable for false information but it may make it a more enjoyable news reading experience.
  • jmholloway, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3I am allowed to have my opinions. I think Yahoo is a great company. Does that make me retarded? I think not.
  • mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -6/+5so, what happened then?
  • Kamikid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1So the yahoo guys are acting as beta testers for google then spreading it around?
  • Petrarch1603, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Why does this digg have a green banner with a star on it?
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3A major tech company acting dishonestly? When does that happen?
  • vamsi, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3Well, If yahoo fed google's secrets, I think google didn't want to keep them as secrets. I mean, if your rival can know what you do....
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2That would be your friends digging this article.



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  • mrASSMAN, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1oh so THATS how yahoo steals google's work! every company has a certain method to stealing the competition's ideas.
  • crapiolio, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3CL2 is sweet, wonder when is it coming out?
  • nicklinus, on 10/12/2007, -13/+6so what are this guys source.
  • nathum, on 10/12/2007, -8/+0Typical Yahoo
  • aurifex, on 10/12/2007, -13/+5YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

    (Har har)
  • RetroEvolute, on 10/12/2007, -17/+9Cool. I hadn't even heard about CL2 yet... Sounds like it could be useful.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -12/+3I take it you haven't read digg within the last month too?
  • dharm, on 10/12/2007, -12/+3wow, shocking news.... -_-;;

    i thought i was gonna passout when i heard a guy from yahoo took some screenshots of google calendar beta and gave them to some site, must be a conspiracy
  • hectorhector, on 10/12/2007, -12/+1...
  • hectorhector, on 10/12/2007, -12/+1http://www.30boxes.com is the best online calender out there right now and it will probably be better than google's calendar.
  • Jammerdelray, on 10/12/2007, -14/+1"I love Yahoo! Id honestly rather work for Yahoo than Google. They have more fun in life."

    now how tarded is that statement....
  • jmholloway, on 10/12/2007, -25/+12I love Yahoo! Id honestly rather work for Yahoo than Google. They have more fun in life.
  • inactive, on 10/12/2007, -20/+1All your base are belong to us

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