misc
NetSquared Mashup Challenge: Hack Day for non-profits and NGOs
Over on the Yahoo! Developer Network blog, I wrote about something I’ve been helping out with and supporting in recent months, the NetSquared Mashup Challenge:
I wanted to draw your attention to an organization that I and Yahoo! have been supporting that you might want to support, too — NetSquared. The goal of NetSquared is simple: […]
The last time I saw the Olympic torch. . . .
. . . . I was living in Atlanta before the 1996 Olympics (and during, too). This is one of my all-time favorite photos of myself because it is ridiculous on so many levels. The Harley shirt was sort of the trucker hat of the mid-90s (at least for me).
The torch is […]
The SXSW plague of 2008: Shinerbockellosis
Update: it’s not a real infection unless it can follow you on Twitter. Check out SouthByScurvy’s first tweet: “collecting souls.”
This has got to be one of the sickest winters in my recent memory. It seems like everyone I know is battling something. The latest strain seems to be related to going to […]
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. […]