- Jeremy Zawodny
guru". [cite web | url=http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/1758 | title=Jeremy Zawodny | publisher=O'Reilly Media | accessdate=2006-12-18 ]
He maintains a popular
weblog focused on Yahoo! initiatives, which is listed in CNET News.com's index of the 100 best technology-related blogs. According to CNET, Zawodny has "helped put MySQL and other open-source technologies to use". [cite web | title=Blog 100 - Jeremy Zawodny | publisher=CNET | url=http://news.com.com/2311-10784_3-25792.html | date=2005-10-05 | accessdate=2006-12-18 ]Work at Yahoo!
He was considered internally and externally to be Yahoo!'s MySQL resident guru. Upon joining the company in 1999, he replaced the existing data-management system for the Yahoo! Finance news feed with MySQL.cite news | last = Greenemeier | first = Larry | title = Open Source Goes Corporate | work = InformationWeek | pages = 38 | publisher = CMP Media LLC | date = 2005-09-26 | url = http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=171200352 | accessdate = 2006-12-23]
He has also worked as an evangelist on the "
influencer marketing " team in Yahoo! SearchFact|date=February 2007 and helped to launch the Yahoo! Search blog. He was part of Yahoo! Search’s Technology Development team.">cite news | last = Greenemeier | first = Larry | title = Open Source Goes Corporate | work = InformationWeek | pages = 38 | publisher = CMP Media LLC | date = 2005-09-26 | url = http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=171200352 | accessdate = 2006-12-23]On June 12, 2008, Jeremy announced on his blog that he would be leaving Yahoo!. [cite web | title=Leaving Yahoo! | publisher=Jeremy Zawodny | url=http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/010336.html | date=2008-06-12 | accessdate=2008-06-13 ]
Outside Yahoo!
Prior to joining Yahoo!, Zawodny worked for three years at the
Marathon Oil Company in Findlay,Ohio in their Information Technology Services. [cite web
title = Speaker Biographies - Jeremy Zawodny
url=http://www.pubcon.com/bios/jeremy_zawodny.htm
accessdate = 2006-12-23
work = WebmasterWorld PubCon 2006 ]Jeremy Zawodny also writes a monthly column for
Linux Magazine and speaks at numerous conferences about MySQL, Yahoo!, and open sourcecite web
title = Open Source at Yahoo!
url=http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail641.html
accessdate = 2005-08-03
work = Talk at O'Reilly Media Open Source Conference ]He is also the author of "High Performance MySQL" (ISBN 0-596-00306-4) and holds a B.S. in
Computer Science fromBowling Green State University .Weblog
Zawodny maintains a prominent blog, which he started in 2002. The blog focuses on Yahoo! initiatives and has been praised as a "bridge blog", one that has helped build relationships for Yahoo! and attract potential employees to the company.cite book
last = Wright
first = Jeremy
authorlink = Jeremy Wright (blogger)
title = Blog Marketing
publisher = McGraw-Hill
date = 2006
location = New York
pages = p. 105
doi =
id = ISBN 0072262516]Several of Zawodny's more controversial articles have attracted particular attention. On
May 24 ,2003 , he declared that Google'sPageRank algorithm is no longer viable, due to bloggers and SEOs learning to game the system. This claim is seemingly refuted by Google's continued use of PageRank, and Zawodny's article "inspired many interesting rebuttals". [cite book
last = Langville
first = Amy
authorlink =
coauthors = Carl Meyer
title = Google's PageRank and Beyond: The Science of Search Engine Rankings
publisher = Princeton University Press
date = 2006
location = Princeton, New Jersey
pages = p. 140
id = ISBN 0691122024]Zawodny predicted on
January 9 ,2006 that "2006 will be the year in which once greatSlashdot dies", its method of using an editorial staff losing out to increasingly popular community-driven competitors such asDigg andreddit . In response, "The Guardian " noted that Slashdot was apparently not losing traffic, suggesting that a while a new breed of users were attracted to the younger sites, Slashdot readers were remaining loyal. [cite news | last = Arthur | first = Charles | title = Will Slashdot be overtaken by Digg?| work = The Guardian (London) | date = 2006-01-12 | url = http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1683935,00.html | accessdate =2006-12-23]Although Zawodny is known for his enthusiasm for Yahoo!, his posts critical of the company have often been noted by the media. Such posts include his condemnation of Yahoo! software installations that alter user preferences as "insulting and disrepectful", [] an accusation that Yahoo! Finance suffered from a "lack of leadership" and "serious lack of vision", [] and a labeling of Yahoo!'s enterprise instant messenger as a "freaking money pit" and a product "customers don't want". []
Zawodny was also an early advocate of RSS feeds at Yahoo! and predicted in 2003 that the technology would someday be ubiquitous. [cite news | last =Bajak | first = Frank | title = Enthusiasts Call Web Feed Next Big Thing | work = Associated Press | date =
2004-03-03 | url = http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2004/02/27/enthusiasts_call_web_feed_next_big_thing | accessdate = 2006-12-23]References
External links
* [http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/ Jeremy Zawodny's blog]
* [http://jeremy.zawodny.com/bio.html Jeremy Zawodny's autobiographical page]
* [http://www.ysearchblog.com/ Yahoo! Search Blog]
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