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Brilliant video - World of Warcraft characters go home and play ‘Workcraft’ - a game remarkably similar to day-to-day human life.

Tags: Worldof Warcraft

It has been a while since Microsoft withdrew from its attempts to take over Yahoo.

Since then Yahoo has had a bumpy ride, including having to sign an advertising deal with its one-time arch enemy Google.

On top of that, Yahoo has had to deal with defections of very senior management. I wrote recently about Google’s recent losses but over the past five or six weeks the list of Yahoo defections is massive. This, of course, has to be taken in context. Yahoo employs around 50,000 staff (at least at the moment, there are rumours of an impending reorganisation) - but still loosing over 25 Vice President and Senior Director level staff in under six weeks?:

• Qi Lu, the Executive Vice President of Engineering for Search and Advertising Technology Group
• Brad Garlinghouse, the SVP of Communications & Communities at Yahoo
• Vish Makhijani, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Search
• Jeremy Zawodny, Yahoo’s Technology Evangelist
• Chris Bolte, Vice President of Strategic Alliances
• Stewart Butterfield, General Manager Flickr
• Jeff Weiner, Executive Vice President Network Division
• Michael Geller, Vice President of Marketing & Business Operations for Connected Life/Mobile
• Theresa Virani, Director of EU Search Marketing
• Pedro Sanudo, Director of EU Ads
• Joshua Schachter, Director Engineering del.icio.us
• Scott Derringer, Senior Director of Product Management, Connected Life
• Caterina Fake, Senior Director of Technology Development
• Matthew Berardo, Senior Director of International Business
• Usama Fayyad Chief Data Officer and Executive Vice President of Research and Strategic Data Solutions
• Mike Mathieson, Director of Web Search Ranking
• Jason Zajac Chief Finance Officer, Yahoo! Network Division
• Jeff Birkeland, Senior Director of Lifestyle Products
• Deep Varma, Director of Solutions Engineering Team
• Gary Clayton, Vice President of Voice Strategy
• Mike Speiser, Vice President of Community
• Richard Kosinski, Vice President Political Advertising
• Brooke Chaffin, Vice President Business Operations
• Ira Kurgan, Chief Business Officer

Tags: Yahoo

Engadget never stop reviewing cool items that I lust after today’s little gem is Takara Tomy’s BankQuest RPG Piggy Bank.  With this you have to save money into the piggyback to buy items to use in the embedded video game, allowing you character to level up.

Tags: RPG