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SXSW and eTech
Big week ahead. I’ll be stopping by eTech for about 24 hours (late Tuesday to late Wednesday — wish I could stay longer), then it’s back to SF for meetings on Thursday, then on to Austin for SXSW (arriving Friday night and heading back early Monday). We’re throwing a little Flickr / Fire […]
Review: Jawbone Bluetooth headset
Recently, I went through another round of a roughly annual “find a Bluetooth headset that actually works” exercise after throwing the latest failed attempt in the electronic junk drawer beside the cracked Palm V and the old SCSI Jaz drive. First of all, let me state for the record that I don’t consider myself […]
Miscellany
In the absence of new content on this blog (need to rectify that!), below are some miscellaneous notes in no particular order of importance.
Life is intense both outside of work and at work. It’s all good.
In the past several weeks, I’ve seen shows of all kinds:
Ryan Adams (here’s one review, and Ian explains […]
Yahoo! Live is live
Check it out: Yahoo! Live is live, complete with API. This is experiment out of the Advanced Products group (my relatively new gig). See Yahoo! Next post for all the details!
Congrats to Tony Scott
Congratulations to Tony Scott, who was just named as the new CIO at Microsoft. Several years ago when I was at InfoWorld and Tony served on our CTO Advisory Council, I had the pleasure of spending time with him shooting pool, drinking beer, and talking about automotive technologies (he was CTO of General Motors […]
Yahoo! goes OpenID
Yahoo! announced plans to be OpenID provider at the end of this month — see the Yahoo! Developer Network blog post for more details.
A special shout-out to Shreyas Doshi and Allen Tom (among many others) for pushing to make this happen!
A new role at Yahoo!
I guess the headline tips my hand. I’m taking on a new role at Yahoo: running the Advanced Products group, a position just vacated by Scott Gatz. Scott has built a great team and I have big shoes to fill, but the groundwork that Scott and his team have laid only increases […]
What is a mashup? Fun on the streets of Dublin (video)
I went to Dublin recently to give a talk at Mashup Camp and had an incredible time on my first visit there. The talk (slides here) got good reviews and I really enjoyed spending time with the Irish developer community. David Berlind puts it nicely when he wrote: “There in Ireland, the […]
Changed WordPress template
Over the past several months, I gradually butchered my last WordPress template, so I’m starting fresh today with Cutline 3-column split.
RSS-only readers, move along, there’s nothing here to see. . . .
update: I just realized that I unwittingly chose the same template as Cameron Marlow, which means it must be good. […]
Mashup Camp Dublin: geeking out in the land of Joyce
I’m going to be at Mashup Camp Dublin this weekend (see the post over at the Yahoo! Developer Network blog).
Aside from the tech festivities, I am looking forward to spending a little time getting to know Dublin. Besides being a home brewing nerd, I spent a lot of time in college studying James Joyce […]