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As part of Jerry Yang's promised 100-day turnaround of the company, Yahoo recruited some of its best and brightest, in small teams of 4 to 6 people, to cook up bold new tactics to compete with Facebook, Google, and the rest. Yahoo executive Ash Patel oversaw the initiative, which was disruptive to the company's day-to-day work, says a tipster brought into one of the secret skunkworks. Those drafted poured weeks into the effort, he says, with the hope that their ideas might actually get built. No such luck. Yang reviewed the projects — and then promptly sent them into Yahoo's managerial swamps for execution. Which, of course, means nothing's getting done, as usual. What will change that, I wonder?

"The only thing that's clear is many people in the upper rungs at Yahoo need to be fired as they continuously just get in the way of development by talking and not building," says the tipster. What I'd like to know is what some of these great ideas were. If they're brought into the light of day, I believe, Yahoo management might actually be shamed into greenlighting them. If your save-Yahoo plan is getting stymied by bureaucracy, drop me a line.