Comments on: Meet Scott Dietzen, the New Guy at Yahoo in Charge of Flickr

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:30:00 +0000

Scott is coming from Zimbra, easily arguable as the most innovative groupware platform offered both as SaaS, and with open-source and commercial versions available for organizations that want to run it themselves. If you’re looking for a tech innovator, Scott is one. Amid the constellation of bright decisions that has enabled the company to grow into one of the industry’s luminaries, Yahoo! was smart to acquire Zimbra, and smart to promote him. It remains a question only is Yahoo! is good enough for Scott?

By: jacek

jacek — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:26:00 +0000

FYI: “Prior to Zimbra, Scott was CTO of BEA Systems where he was the principal architect of the technology strategy for the WebLogic product family, which drove the company from $61 million in revenue for the year prior to WebLogic’s acquisition to over $1 billion. He was also one of BEA’s top spokespersons with customers, business partners, analysts, and the press. Scott came to BEA in 1998 via the $200+ million acquisition of WebLogic, a pioneer in Java and web application technology. He is credited with helping put together the J2EE standard, launching the Web application server category, launching the Java Community Process, and driving the web services collaboration with Microsoft and IBM. Prior to WebLogic, Scott was Principal Technologist for Transarc (acquired by IBM), a developer of distributed transaction and information sharing systems. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.”

By: Robert Sanzalone

Robert Sanzalone — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:10:00 +0000

Amazing story. Am following with interest. BTW, the above shot was taken in Tokyo at the O’Reilly Web 2.0 Conference in Nov. 2007 where Scott was one of the Keynotes.

By: jeffd

jeffd — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:21:00 +0000

Doesn’t look like Dietzen’s smugmug site has been updated in over three years.

For that matter neither has Flickr, so I guess he’s even there.

By: Thomas Hawk

Thomas Hawk — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:05:00 +0000

Anonymous. If Scott Dietzen is so concerned with his privacy then he probably shouldn’t have a personal website up. His site is the third Google result for his name. I wouldn’t exactly call that “stalking,” him.

I think whether or not an executive uses a service that they oversee is interesting information to know.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:56:00 +0000

If that came through as Tim, I’m sorry, I meant to say Tom!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:55:00 +0000

Hi Tom. It’s posts like this that make me wary about using any of the Web 2.0 sites and sharing any information about myself at all. You might be happy with friendfeed and having your pseudonym-life in public, but are you sure you’re not just stalking these poor Yahoos? (Commented here before, but going anonymous this time)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:55:00 +0000

Hi Tim. It’s posts like this that make me wary about using any of the Web 2.0 sites and sharing any information about myself at all. You might be happy with friendfeed and having your pseudonym-life in public, but are you sure you’re not just stalking these poor Yahoos? (Commented here before, but going anonymous this time)