events
Yahoo! Hack Day: opening up Yahoo! itself
Ever since I organized the first Hack Day at Yahoo, people have been saying, “wouldn’t it be cool if you opened it up?” Guess what? That’s exactly what we’re doing — opening Yahoo! itself up, and in a big way. I’ve been to and helped organize internal Yahoo! Hack Days on three […]
Yahoo! Hack Day: wow again
Our Hack Day on Friday once again left me in awe of the hackers at Yahoo! In sheer quantity of hacks, we exceeded all prior Hack Days, and the quality seemed to be higher than ever. Our panel of judges included some of the top executives in the company and even one of […]
At Syndicate this week
I’ll be at Syndicate tomorrow afternoon, manning the Yahoo! booth from 2:30pm-4pm — stop by and say hello. On Wednesday, I’ll be participating in the Structured Blogging panel.
Hope to see some of you there.
Brief report on BarCamp Bangalore
Last Friday and Saturday were a complete whirlwind, but absolutely exhilirating. After traveling for just over 30 hours and arriving in Bangalore at 3pm local time (2:30am back in California), I went to my hotel to get some rest before reporting to Yahoo! Bangalore for our first international Hack Day the next morning. […]
Yahoo! Bangalore Hack Day: a report
To put it mildly, the Yahoo! Bangalore Hack Day completely rocked. There were so many hacks at the end of the day that we had to run demos in two separate rooms simultaneously. I had an amazing time and was incredibly impressed with the energy and creativity of everyone I met. Some […]
Going to Bangalore and London
Next Tuesday, I’m headed to Bangalore to visit the Yahoo! office there for their Hack Day (we had one last December and one in March at the main Yahoo! offices in California). Even better, Yahoo! Bangalore’s Hack Day on Friday is followed by Bangalore BarCamp on Saturday. I signed up to talk […]
Reading 2.0 and microformats
Yesterday, I participated in the Reading 2.0 summit (organized by Peter Brantley of the California Digital Library), a small gathering in San Francisco about the future of digitized material, with the digitization of books being a primary topic. Tim O’Reilly did an amazing job of taking notes.
As Tim notes, I gave a […]
See you in Austin for SXSW
Whew — it’s been a crazy week. I was at eTech earlier this week (a little hectic with the Checkmates prototype rolling out) and didn’t get to hang out and chat with people quite as much as I wanted. Then, in an unfortunate calendaring incident, I had rebooked a few days in […]
Checkmates: a mobile friend finder prototype for eTech
I’ve been working on a project recently that is really the convergence of everything I love about my work these days: promoting grassroots innovation at Yahoo! through events like Hack Day, building cool stuff, and trying to glimpse the future through prototypes that reach a little bit. (Aside: I just […]
Notes from Mashup Camp
Unfortunately for me, some pressing work obligations came up on the second day of Mashup Camp so I wasn’t able to attend, but I did make it the first day and had a great time while I was there. I apologize to people I missed. David Berlind and Doug Gold did an […]