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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 [...]
Born on a train: Twitter and musical serendipity
I had plans this weekend and Twitter led me astray from them briefly, but I discovered a new cover of an old favorite in the process.
It all started when I woke up on Saturday morning, checked in with Twitter, and noticed that Cody had twittered: “Departing to Kansas for the weekend. If Magnetic Fields changed [...]
The PC World controversy resolved: the invisible hand of Pat McGovern
[Update: Wired posted something after I had started writing this that suggested that Pat McGovern's hand wasn't quite so invisible after all. Harry McCracken "returned to [PC World] only because IDG founder and chairman Pat McGovern and IDG President Bob Carrigan both assured him that he would have editorial autonomy over the content.”]
As a [...]
My giant MS Windows bluescreen photo in Times Square lives on
Back in November of 2004, I was walking down the streets of Manhattan when I saw the biggest blue screen I had ever seen in Times Square, so I recorded the moment with a blog post and a photo on my old InfoWorld blog. Back when I was at InfoWorld, this blog post would [...]
NAS for the home: how’s the Infrant ReadyNAS NV+?
After one of the busiest six-month periods of my life, I’m back to a little bit of home geeking. I’m on the verge of getting serious about massive storage for home and my research suggests that the Infrant ReadyNAS NV+ is the NAS (network-attached storage) device of choice among geeks. You can buy the [...]
At Mix on Tuesday / Wednesday
I’ll be at Mix in Vegas on Tuesday and Wednesday — drop me an e-mail (chadd - at - yahoo-inc.com) if you’d like to meet up.
Every time I go to Vegas, I’m reminded of a passage in Jean Baudrillard’s America (one of the books I read back when I was preparing for a career as [...]
Kids Day at Yahoo: what I learned
Bradley invited me to join him in speaking to two groups of kids today at Yahoo! The first group was 11-12 year-olds, and the second was all 8 year-olds. Bradley and I talked a little bit about what we do, what it’s like to work at Yahoo and what we wanted to be [...]
While I was out. . . .
. . . a bunch of good things happened (besides a wonderfully relaxing honeymoon — thanks to everyone who asked!)
JR Conlin joined the Yahoo! Developer Network team. JR was born to work for a team like ours, and we’re really looking forward to working more closely with him. All your prominent Yahoo! bloggers [...]
Getting hitched
I had been planning to write something really profound about my impending nuptials on Friday (and it is definitely profound in so many ways), but a moment last night really brought it all home. After a late night of doing some last-minute wedding preparations and errands in which copy machines played a critical role, [...]
Yahoo! Mail Web Service released!
Off to catch a plane, so more later, but today we announced the release of the Yahoo! Mail Web Service — the same mail platform we use to deliver Yahoo! Mail, the #1 web mail platform in the world with almost 250 million users. Now developers can build on it, too. That’s a [...]