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.
Jeremy Zawodny posted (in reaction to Reading the Google Tea Leaves) his opinion that Google is building Yahoo 2.0.: it’s as if someone decided to re-invent more and more of Yahoo’s popular services in random order, giving them a fresh user interface, less historical baggage, and usually one feature that really stands out (such as […]
In my job, I get to meet lots of people at startups and big companies, and more and more I’m reminded of the fact that successful companies are all about the people. Back in my startup days, VCs and advisors always looked really closely at the team and the people as a indicator of potential […]
Ok, so I so kinda understand why people would spam blog comments. They hope to drive traffic to their site by either increasing pagerank or getting people to click on the links. But in the last few weeks, I’ve been getting tons of very similar comment spam. They all come from different IP addresses but […]
I have a birthday coming up in a few weeks and Craig and I sat down to set up an Evite for the party. In the process however, I came across one of the worst error message schemes ever and just had to point it out. We couldn’t remember if Craig already had an account, […]
The Yahoo! Maps team just released a new beta (and a great new set of Maps APIs) that is very cool. At first, I wasn’t sure about the idea of doing some stuff using AJAX and a big chunk using flash, but after using it for a while, I’ve really grown to like it. It’s […]
Another off-topic post today, but I couldn’t resist (it does involve my old profession though) Today, for the first time in over 20 years, the “Top of the Rock” re-opens in New York City. The “Top of the Rock” is the observation deck on the top floor of 30 Rockefeller Center and since 1933 was […]
A good friend of mine is a French translator who also does voice overs for French language TV commercials, training videos, etc. At lunch this weekend, he told me a story about a client that made me think about how overly US-centric most companies still are. Most companies these days do business in every market […]
VC Rick Segal has a great post about how to treat employees who are leaving your company. The Post Money Value: Exit Stage Left – Your last chance Over the years at Yahoo! and at other companies I’ve inevitably had to watch some great team members move onto new and different careers, take time off […]
John Furrier at podtech.net interviewed me last week at BlogOn for his InfoTalk series. We actually cover a pretty wide variety of stuff about RSS from how to make it easier, to my favorite Cub Scout RSS feed, and on to our research. I usually hate how my voice sounds on these sort of things, […]
If you are reading this, it is likely that you are interested in some of the work we are doing at Yahoo! in the RSS space. We’ve got an opening for an experienced, dedicated, bright product manager who wants to make great things happen here at Yahoo!. The official job description is below, the best […]
