Numbers are nonexistent, so we remain unsure of just how widespread the firings will be.  Yet Henry Blodget writes, “[W]ord is the Products and Sales teams are going to take the brunt of the whackage.”  And given that the last cuts hit some 2,000 people, it’s unlikely that just a handful will be affected.

On the bright side – and honestly, I’m stretching, but not being sarcastic – at least these soon-to-be ex-AOL employees will get a jump on members of Yahoo Europe in the job hunt.  Also, this isn’t such a terrible time of the year for them to spend extra time with their families.

The entire economy seems to be turning sour, though, and there’s good reason to fear that we’ll be seeing more and more of these stories over the next few weeks.  Not to mention articles about entire sites and companies shutting down, as we learned that MingleNow is expected to do.

http://www.webpronews.com/?p=42505 Yahoo’s got more social networks than it knows what to do with (especially since none of them are successful in the Facebook sense).  Things should get a little more manageable come January, though, because MingleNow is shutting down.

]]> Yahoo’s got more social networks than it knows what to do with (especially since none of them are successful in the Facebook sense).  Things should get a little more manageable come January, though, because MingleNow is shutting down.

Haven’t heard of it?  Exactly.  MingleNow, a “nightlife community website,” used to be owned by BlueLithium, and might have done all right by the standards of that company.  But now that Yahoo has bought BlueLithium, resources are being shifted to other projects.

“[Y]ou will have full opportunity to save your profile photos to your computer,” notes the MingleNow Blog.  Then comes the advertising: “Feel free to take your photos and friends with you to other communities such as Flickr, post your events on Upcoming or find your favorite bars and clubs on 123out.com.”

Of course, Richard MacManus discovered that 123.com currently does nothing more than redirect to MingleNow, so one product’s death appears to have become another’s (re)launch announcement.

It’s the circle of life (and/or a nice bit of cannibalism) at Yahoo.