Archive for February, 2007
Hiring at Yahoo! Developer Network
Yes, we’re hiring all types — developers, designers, product managers, evangelists. Details in my post over at the Yahoo! Developer Network blog. Lots of interesting things in the pipeline. Come be a part of it!
The MyBlogLog earthquake
This has undoubtedly been a tough week for MyBlogLog, but it’s standup posts like these that make me proud to work so closely with these guys. Nice job, Eric (and great job to Todd, Steve, and John for implementing real fixes while deflecting lots of criticism).
And Caterina puts the whole thing [...]
Conference season: where you’ll find me
It’s that time of year, and I’ve got a busy but excellent schedule ahead. If you want to meet up at any of these places, drop me a line! (it’s “chad”, then “chaddickerson.com”).
YUI First-Year Party
Yahoo! HQ (Sunnyvale, CA)
February 22, 5:30-8:30pm
Browser Wars: Episode II The Attack of the DOMs
Yahoo! [...]
Must-see TV: “The Sarah Silverman Program”
When I read a review in The New Yorker that said “The Sarah Silverman Program” is “much the meanest sitcom in years — and one of the funniest,” I knew I had to tune in. Reading further, when I noticed that Brian Posehn plays one of Sarah’s “red-bearded gay neighbors,” well, I was pretty [...]
Kiva update: repayments begin
Back in December, I wrote about Kiva.org and microcredit, a concept that drove last year’s Nobel Peace Prize award. Kiva.org allows anyone to make microloans to enterpreneurs in the developing world.
Read my last post on Kiva.org for details on the loans I made, but I just wanted to note that I got my first [...]
FTD, you let me down
The folks over at FTD blew it for me this Valentines Day. They managed to charge my credit card, but the flowers never showed. Nancy and I had a good laugh about it and wondered how such a mishap might affect a shakier relationship. I’m considering calling FTD and telling them that [...]
Jon Udell and Yahoo! Pipes
I read Jon Udell’s post about Yahoo! Pipes today in which he said of Pipes: It delights me! I’m not sure if Jon remembers this or not, but when I had him over to Yahoo! to give a talk last March, Pipes creator Pasha Sadri described the general concept (then just floating around in [...]
Yahoo! Pipes: “a milestone in the history of the internet”
When Tim O’Reilly calls a product “a milestone in the history of the internet,” something really, really cool is happening. Here’s what the coolness is all about:
Pipes is a hosted service that lets you remix feeds and create new data mashups in a visual programming environment. The name of the service pays tribute to [...]
MyBlogLog is hiring: work for Yahoo! in Berkeley
The MyBlogLog team is settling into their cozy space in the Berkeley office (home of Yahoo! Research Berkeley) and we’re now starting to build out the team (if you didn’t already know, MyBlogLog is a recent acquisition that we’re really excited about at Yahoo!)
You probably know that there are a few thousand people down at [...]