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.
Photo from flickr: HammHawk Last night the New Orleans Saints played their first home game since Hurricane Katrina in the newly remodeled Superdome. I think it is very important the world see that New Orleans is (slowly) coming alive. I went to New Orleans over the Labor Day weekend this year; friends and I had […]
Yahoo!’s Bangalore Office on MG Road Originally uploaded by sgatz. One of the perks of my new job is working with an amazing team of developers that live and work in Bangalore, India. So, for the first time ever, I’ve traveled to Asia, I stopped in Singapore and I’m now in Bangalore. Yahoo has a […]
My post last week about Entrepreneurship/Intrapreneurship got lots of reaction, thanks in part to Dave Winer, who linked to it and helped it spread around. Thanks Dave! A few of the responses got me thinking. In particular, Ross Mayfield’s post sparked an interesting discussion. He said: But shouldn’t any knowledge worker be able to do […]
I first heard the term Intrapreneur from Guy Kawasaki and its something that has stuck in my head ever since. The term has been around for a very long time and simply represents: The spirit of entrepreneurship within an existing organization. Intrapreneur is a person who focuses on innovation and creativity and who transforms a […]
Many of you who read this blog have gotten to know me as Yahoo’s “RSS Guy” but my official role has been a lot broader than that. I’ve lead Yahoo’s Personalization team and have worked to ensure that personalization is woven into all that Yahoo does, that you enter info once (like where you live, […]
You’ve probably read that Yahoo! released a beta version of a new home page. It’s a radically better page and it seems like a lot of people think its a good thing. My team has been working closely with the front page team and I know that there are some more additions coming in the […]
I’m off to NYC for the Syndicate Conference. At December’s conference I gave a keynote, this time I’m happy to just be able to enjoy the conference as a participant. My colleagues Peggy White (GM of Y! Finance) and Chad Dickerson will be doing the speaking this time around. If you’ll be there, let me […]
It’s rare that I hear overly dilbert-esque things at work, but just a few minutes ago, I walked by two people who were staring at a desktop PC’s tower which was laying sidewise on a desk and seemed to have some sort of mud on it (really). I didn’t hear the question, but the person […]
Two weeks ago, as part of my “Living the Customer” post, I promised that I’d be talking about how search engine optimization sucks (from the perspective of the small website owner). As fate would have it, Jeff Weiner, SVP of Search at Yahoo! just spoke at PC Forum and gave the perfect quote: “Search is […]
Josh Grossnickle (Director of Research at Yahoo), Todd Board (Ipsos), Charlene Li (Forrester) and I will be speaking at tonight’s Silicon Valley American Marketing Association tonight. More details are available here: at the SVAMA website. This is an open event (anyone can attend) although there is a fee for non-members. If you are there tonight, […]
