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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 [...]
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 [...]
Jon Udell and Yahoo! Pipes
I read Jon Udell’s post about Yahoo! Pipes today in which he said of Pipes: It delights me! I’m not sure if Jon remembers this or not, but when I had him over to Yahoo! to give a talk last March, Pipes creator Pasha Sadri described the general concept (then just floating around in [...]
Looking ahead at Web 2007 panel on Tuesday 1/9
I’m honored to be part of a panel at next Tuesday’s Jewish High-Tech Community meeting organized by Bill Lazar, the topic being “Looking ahead at Web 2007.” I’m looking forward to meeting Evelyn Rodriguez and Jason Hoffman, and seeing Anil Dash again. The panel is described as follows:
Each of our speakers will open with [...]
Web 2.0 narcissism and geeking out in Northeastern Wisconsin
As I mentioned in my previous post, I’m in Appleton, Wisconsin for the holidays and aside from chilling out after a really amazing year, I wanted to see what was going on around here from a tech perspective. Back when we were putting together Open Hack Day, I got an email from Bob Waldron [...]
What was your first Amazon order? (and why George Jones matters)
I was logged in to Amazon tonight checking an order and followed the link to “orders by year.” The first order in my history was placed on December 23, 1997 and appeared to be a last-minute Christmas gift for my mother. I ordered these two books:
Kay Jamison’s An Unquiet Mind: a look at [...]
Yahoo! Open Hack Day: how it all came together
I have to admit — since Hack Day ended, I have been struggling with how to contextualize it. It’s hard to put a nice neat wrapper around something that was so profound for me. For the people who were there (and you can read for yourself), it felt like a defining moment. [...]
We’re hiring for the YDN Bangalore team
In addition to the Yahoo! Developer Network team at Yahoo! HQ in Sunnyvale, California, we also have a small team of developers in our Bangalore, India office who work with us on our core projects. I visited Bangalore in April for their Hack Day before I was directly involved with YDN, and I was [...]
A new role for me: Yahoo! Developer Network
Now that Bradley has mentioned it and Jeremy alluded to it, it’s time for me to write it here. As of this week, I’m leading the Yahoo! Developer Network and Jeremy has joined the team that sprung from the team he helped build originally.
I’m too busy diving in to the new [...]
Management lessons from Saddam
I’ve always been fascinated and entertained (i.e. amused) by the types of business books that become en vogue at various times. A few years ago, I started noticing a particular type of book that took a historical figure unrelated to business and extracted key lessons from that person for application to your business. [...]