Archive for September, 2006
Yahoo! Hack Day, with Beck — and special hacked video
First of all, suffice it to say that not blogging about Beck’s upcoming appearance at our first open Hack Day at Yahoo! was ABSOLUTELY KILLING ME. For various reasons, we had to keep it quiet. That being said, I was surprised that no one ever thought to look at my weekly top [...]
Matt McAlister joins Yahoo! Developer Network
There’s too much going on right now to post anything too lengthy, but suffice it to say that I am absolutely ecstatic that Matt McAlister has joined the Yahoo! Developer Network team. Read Matt’s post for more details.
Matt and I worked together very closely back at InfoWorld — working with Matt was one [...]
Yahoo! Hack Day tip: presenting in 90 seconds or less
Over on the Hack Day blog (feed here), I posted a must-read on presenting at Hack Day: Hack Day tip: demoing your hack in 90 seconds or less, pointing to Matt McAlister’s excellent set of tips on that subject.
Stay tuned to the Hack Day blog (again, here’s the feed) for updates leading up to the [...]
Yahoo! Hack Day: kicking off next Friday 9/29. Sign up!
Planning for the big open Yahoo! Hack Day that I wrote about three weeks ago is well underway, as it should be — we kick off next Friday, September 29 at 5pm, and man, we are EXCITED and have some amazing things in store. If you’re interested in attending, submit your information on the form [...]
Product manager job is filled / LinkedIn becomes essential
For those of you who saw the Product Manager job at the Yahoo! Developer Network that I posted to LinkedIn (and got posted to CrunchBoard by someone), that position has been filled. I’ll announce soon.
Thanks to everyone who contacted me. There were many excellent applicants and I hope to be getting back in [...]
100 emails at 2:45pm
On a quiet Friday, I decided to see just how many emails I get in the course of a day at work. At 2:45pm, I passed the 100 email mark just for today. I agressively filter mailing lists, bulk mailings, etc. so these are 100 “real” emails.
Reading all of these, of course, [...]