No, not anymore! The shuffling of personnel around the Holidays has been enough for any person to take. It's like a huge puzzle where the pieces are interchangeable at first, but after that they tend to shrink or enlarge on their own, overlapping others. "So, he leaves Yahoo, joins Google. Ok, got it. What? Google loses three guys? Well, does the new one fit in all their positions? He doesn't, huh? Ah, now I get it, now there's somebody coming over from Microsoft to fill in the gap. He's going to YouTube, not Google central?" Dizzy head.

Microsoft's director of creative marketing, Chris Di Cesare, quoted in connection to Halo 3, has just joined YouTube to the newly created position of� director of marketing. It's not very clear to me what he'll be marketing, but I trust that they haven't hired him for nothing and that something's in the brewing.

My best guess is that his coming has something to do with the 2008 presidential elections that are drawing closer, because YouTube is looking serious in covering them and doing it well. The CNN/YT Debates and blog posts are reasons enough to believe that, anyway. Other than that, there might be an attempted comparison between the two giants as to the extent that YouTube and Xbox being two of their most popular products and perhaps some information might be squeezed out of that.

More emphasis on the Microsoft to Google transfer is in order, I think, because I don't think that it was something very likely to happen and to lose one of the men responsible for a success to your biggest online rival isn't the best thing possible by a long shot. Will there be an exchange of personnel? Some Googler going to Microsoft soon? No, I just don't see that happening.