More Yahooglers jump ship

WE REPORTED YESTERDAY that the founders of Flickr, Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, were leaving Yahoo. In the time between the INQ went to bed and woke up again this morning, three more high level executives have been outed as leaving for pastures new, along with another of Yahoo's Web 2.0 kids, Joshua Schachter.

Joshua founded Delicious, a social bookmarking service that Yahoo bought at the end of 2005 to complement Flickr in its hip, Web 2.0 space. Since being acquired Delicious has had pretty much zero work done to it, publicly, and Schachter confirmed in a post on TechCrunch that "I was largely sidelined by the decisions of my management... it was an incredibly frustrating experience." Obviously that's how Yahoo likes to roll - pay millions for a talented web creator and his property, then ignore everything he has to say.

At a higher level, Vish Makhijani is out - he was SVP and General Manager of Search, so has presided over Yahoo's increasing irrelevance in that space. Qi Lu had his job taken from under him this month - as EVP for Search and Advertising Technology, the Google ad outsourcing deal makes him pretty much irrelevant.

Perhaps the highest profile departure, though, is Brad Garlinghouse - as VP of Communications and Communities, he was in charge of some of Yahoo's core brands including Mail, Messenger, Flickr and Groups.

As Yahoo flails after the collapse of the Microsoft deal, expect to see even more execs jumping ship. If you're keeping track, check out Mike Arrington's handy Yahoo Departures Board here. µ