Author Archive
Mini-review: Ryan Adams in Berkeley
Before I get into my mini-review of Ryan Adams’ show in Berkeley on Tuesday night, I should state a few facts for the record about my almost-relationship with Ryan Adams. Forgive me in advance for the indulgence — I need to get a few things out of the way.
I grew up in Greenville, NC [...]
Congrats to Gil and Tacoda
I read this morning that AOL announced that it’s entered into an agreement to buy Tacoda. A special congrats to my friend Gil Beyda, EVP of Corporate Strategy and Development there.
I first worked with Gil back in my Salon.com days when he was CTO of RealMedia. We became the first company to implement [...]
Going paperless: is it (finally) time?
For years now, I’ve held onto the dream of going paperless — a dream that was usually shattered with an afternoon of clumsy scanning on a substandard consumer scanner and a few paper cuts. Every couple of years, I check back in on the state of the art and think about giving it another [...]
iPhone: resistance is futile
After days of resistance, I decided I was probably going to get an iPhone, but they were all sold out in the Bay Area, so I backed off. Then yesterday, I happened to be in Seattle with some Yahoo! Seattle geeks (did I mention we are hiring up there?) and they just happened to [...]
Hack Day London: Smells like Dunkirk spirit
Over on the Yahoo! Developer Network blog, I just posted about the unbelievable goings-on here in London yesterday. It was quite a day, one of the most memorable of my career.
Pumped about London Hack Day / Dopplr
It’s 2:45am on a Saturday morning and all I can think about is the upcoming London Hack Day we’re doing with the BBC next weekend. I arrive in London on Monday to begin some of the pre-event preparation. I can’t sleep thinking about it. I’m turning 35 soon and I’ve flown many [...]
Yahoo! hiring in Seattle
My colleague Steve Makofsky just posted about a batch of engineering and product management jobs we have opening up in Seattle. Check it out.
The miracle on I-580
In a world where the-sky-is-falling sensationalist media is the norm, the conclusion to the saga of the collapsed freeway here in the Bay Area is downright inspiring: the contractor (C.C. Myers) finished the job early! When is the last time things came together so nicely on a highway project? Wow! The lede [...]
MyBlogLog adds tagging
Yes, MyBlogLog has implemented tagging. Get all the details here, along with some thoughts from Mike at Techcrunch.
Nice job, Eric, Todd, John, Steve, Chris, Robyn, and Ian! (yep, that list is getting longer)
For now, I seem to own the tag “optimist.” I’ll take it!
Oh yeah, the team is hiring.
Welcoming Jon Williams to the blogosphere
I just go an email from Jon Williams, a friend and CTO of Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions, and he let me know that he is now blogging (feed here). Excellent! Jon is one of my favorite CTOs and an all-around good guy, as evidenced by the fact that Jon was on the [...]