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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 [...]
The Onion at Yahoo: Peter Koechley
Today, I brought in Peter Koechley, managing editor of The Onion, for the weekly speaker series I run at Yahoo!
I love the Onion, and Peter’s talk did not disappoint. He took us through some of his favorite Onion headlines of the past, read some of the headlines he had written that didn’t ultimately make [...]
Buck Owens: 1929-2006
We lost an American treasure this morning — Buck Owens has died and I am really sad about it.
When I was a kid growing up in North Carolina, I watched Buck Owens on Hee Haw every Saturday night with my family like just about everyone I knew (seriously), but I didn’t really know much about [...]
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 [...]
Bradley (my boss) is blogging
If you want to know more about one of the key people driving some of the coolest stuff happening at Yahoo, subscribe to Bradley Horowitz’s blog now. (Bradley happens to be my boss).
I first met Bradley in person when he was on a panel I was moderating at the Syndicate conference last May. [...]
Silicon Valley: for those too ugly for DC
If Tivo-ing the new season of American Idol wasn’t enough of a guilty pleasure (didn’t those Austin auditions suck?), now I’ve got Valleywag from Gawker Media. Wow, a gossip blog about the world I inhabit! But it doesn’t take long to puncture any feelings of Silicon Valley self-importance in this post:
If D.C. is [...]
How the world works
Last month, my good friend Andrew Leonard launched How the World Works (RSS feed), a blog that (in Salon’s words) “aims to bite off small pieces of the big story, while at the same time engaging with the vast complexity of the Internet’s multi-threaded dialogue on the global economy.” The “how the world works” [...]
John Battelle, the Yahoo! TechDev Speaker Series, and the “Flickrization” of Yahoo!
John Battelle visited Yahoo! yesterday and wrote about it on his blog (see perspectives on the talk from Jeremy, Matt, and Nate. I took the blurry photo you see on your right). I invited John to speak for somewhat obvious reasons (he just wrote a book about search) but it was [...]
Bono, Mark Hosler, and lost opportunities
So, Bono from U2 was here at Yahoo! yesterday (here’s the Flickr photo). As I’ve mentioned here before, we had Mark Hosler of Negativland pay us a visit barely a month ago. For the uninitiated, Mark and Negativland were sued by U2 for copyright infringement (see the Negativland entry [...]