Talk about being hit by lightning. On Tuesday night I was told that the Koprol team at Yahoo! had been building what was going to be Koprol 2.0, a major reimagining of Koprol. The six month work had delivered something that would have been a much better product. It was going to be a leaner and more focused Koprol. On Wednesday morning, I went to Yahoo! Indonesia’s offices to find out what it was all about and later put everything in this blog post. And then this happened.

The layoffs were coming. Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson announced it a couple of days ago and Sarah Lacy heard that the International Yahoos were likely to be hit the hardest. Former developer lead Michael “Smitty” Smith Jr. penned a post of his own last weekend about this entire situation. Sources told Reuters that Yahoo is going to have an all hands meeting on Tuesday about the future of the company.

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