Daily Marauder

ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA
Jerry Yang will be stepping down as CEO of the company, a job that he took on an interim basis in June 2007. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/17/yang-to-step-down-from-yahoo 11/17)

President-Elect Barack Obama posted his first weekly fireside chat Saturday morning on YouTube, AOL, Yahoo, MSN and his new transition site Change.gov – a first for a (soon to be sitting) President. (Cynopsis 11/17)

Facebook is launching its “Verified Apps” program today. The program was first announced over the summer at their F8 Developer Conference – Third party applications will be segmented into “Great Apps” (currently reserved for iLike and Causes), “Verified Apps” (trusted apps, just not the best of the best), and everything else. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/17/facebook-rolls-out-verified-app-program-plus-one-hell-of-a-revenue-model-for-themselves 11/17)