@Klout ranks top political influencers on twitter in G20 countries, and @TheFix and @EzraKlein make the U.S. Top 10 list. Pretty cool.
Here’s how our new app will work: when you tap your phone’s sensor, GPS for the Soul will provide you with several measures of your current stress levels, including your heart rate and heart rate variability. (Subsequent releases will provide even more information.) It will then connect you to whatever you need to get to a place of balance. It might be music, or poetry, or breathing exercises, or photos of a person or place you love — or a combination of all of these.
Our goal is to get back to our core purpose – putting our users and advertisers first – and we are moving aggressively to achieve that goal. Unfortunately, reaching that goal requires the tough decision to eliminate positions. We deeply value our people and all they’ve contributed to Yahoo!.
Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson • In a statement regarding the thousands of layoffs it plans to enact. The company’s press release says that it will “radically simplify” how it build products. (via shortformblog)
About 2,000 people affected by Yahoo! layoffs / job changes.
(via shortformblog)
Source: Yahoo!

