Jeremy Zawodny's going to work at Craigslist!!!!!

Not LinkedIn,  not Facebook, not a little start-up, but the little local engine that could  and did go big time--Craigslist!

Jeremy writes: "

But this time it was different. Over the course of about three seconds, something clicked in my little brain and I realized that craigslist is a pretty unique combination of things: a small company with a solid financial base, a great service that I use myself, a focused groups of people who really care about doing things well, and an open-source friendly environment.

I replied that I might be interested myself and things kind of took on a life of their own from there. In the weeks that followed, I got the chance to meet much of the team (including CEO Jim Bukmaster and Craig himself). Each time I came away liking more and more about the team. I've also been impressed at how well the company takes care of its people and how thoughtful they are about making important decisions."

I think this is awesome.

So with the departure of Caterina and Stewart from Yahoo, I don't think much of anyone from the gang of pirates, as Caterina dubbed the ADD team back in 2005/6, is left.

This is a large turn-over of the social media experts, not that anyone in the main product teams ever tapped any of their knowledge much, anyway, and it says a lot about how the Y! culture is heavily focused on things other than product innovation (getting people to land on their "start pages" and the ad platform for the newspaper partners and small business people would be where I'd guess all the efforts are going right now--in other words, a replay of the equally successful Knight Ridder and AOL schemes of 2003-06.)

When I joined Yahoo! in  2006, it was to the highly meat and potatoes Personals, but I was so excited at the chance to work in parallel, and learn from, the brilliant people who'd developed flickr, upcoming,  delicious and so on.

I did learn, but not because I recall Yahoo! packaging up their expertise across the org in any way, more because I sought them out--and very little of what I learned actually made it into our product, truth be told--we had to push so hard to rebuild a 2004 platform and tired interface to make our numbers that the virtual gifting, identity badging and other possibly game-changing stuff we hoped to release never happened.

And now Stewart and Caterina are gone, too.

 There are tons of other bright, talented people I know who are still at Yahoo! but those two had a special light I hope the company is sad to miss.

Today and tomorrow are the days to finish my errands and pack up my apartment before the movers come and put me in storage. Deconstructing three years of life, even in a place I didn't plan to stay, is a bit sobering and sad. And of course, I am packing far more boxes that I thought I would have to ship ahead to my destination.

As I wrote in my blogher essay this week, moving on is part of a process of change and growth that's led me far since 2005--but this month brings the most extreme changes yet--a new, exciting company, a stealth venture, and a summer in a new town, the finding another place to live when I get back.

But I feel so distracted! Just one chore after another, until it is time to stop.