This is my old blog which I don't really update much anymore. I do love paging through the old archives, perhaps you will too.
I spent all of last week in NYC for two conferences: BlogOn and the Empowering Brands conference. The audience for BlogOn was primarily PR folks and marketers, and the other’s audience was primarily marketers and ad agency folks. The biggest takeaway for me was a reminder of how those of us in silicon valley get […]
I haven’t been writing for the past few days partly because I’ve been travelling and partly due to a configuration problem with my blog. All my permalinks and friendly URLs were 404’ing, including my RSS feed. All is fixed again…
I’ve begun to read the Signal vs. Noise blog on a regular basis (its on my own My Yahoo!). I find all of the guys there insightful but I particularly look out for Jason Fried’s posts. Today, Jason points out a great thing: Bessemer Venture Partners Anti-Portfolio. BVP isn’t afraid to show how they totally […]
I’m heading out to New York for two conferences where I’ll be speaking. The first is BlogOn 2005 on Monday & Tuesday (10/17 & 10/18). I’ve been on their advisory panel and I’m also speaking at a session. Last year’s blog on was a great event, but clearly targeted to the industry types talking to […]
On the Apprentice this week the winning team got to go on the field of Shea Stadium and play a little baseball with some Mets players. (is that really a reward, couldn’t they have gone to see the Yankees?) Craig mentioned how he thought that’d be a cool thing to do and it reminded me […]
While reading USA Today yesterday on my plane ride home, I read this great quote in an article about Web 2.0 by Kevin Maney: It had all new buzzwords. Remember “B2B” and “push technology”? Now it’s “user-generated content” and “AJAX”. Until last week I thought AJAX was a cleaning fluid…but no–it’s an acronym for something […]
It’s been a busy day for social media at Yahoo! Following on the heels of our RSS research we’re launching three four cool new things on Yahoo! today. Yahoo! Podcasts (Y! Next Release) – this early test release starts off with a podcast directory (with tags and ratings/reviews) and a search engine to help you […]
After getting back from all the Web 2.0 hubbub, I’ve finally been able to dig into what people have been saying about the RSS research that my team did. It’s always amazing to see how people pick up on these things and what people focus on. Scoble wrote: Of the big three companies (Google/Microsoft/Yahoo) Yahoo […]
My team at Yahoo! recently partnered with Ipsos Insight on research into how many people on the Internet are using RSS (whether or not they know the “RSS” term) and how they are using it. We presented this research at our Web 2.0 party and then posted it online at our Publisher’s Guide to RSS […]
Very cool news tonight…we announced that the upcoming.org team is now part of Yahoo. More info is on the search blog and on Andy’s waxy.org. At work we talk a lot about how media is fundamentally shifting to social media. The more we can put power in the hands of the community and put consumers […]
