platforms
Facebook and platform complementors: history repeats?
The longer I am in this business, the more amazed I am at the new things being invented daily. In an attempt to stay on top of things, I try to train my critical eye for common themes and patterns that transcend the breathless Techmeme zeitgeist because they usually provide the deepest and most […]
Fire Eagle!
A big congrats to the Fire Eagle team for launching the developer beta of the service today, especially to Tom Coates who is standing on stage in front of me at eTech making the formal announcement as I write this.
While the magic of Fire Eagle is primarily on the backend where developers play, the Fire […]
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 […]
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. […]
Loads of new stuff from Yahoo! Developer Network for Open Hack Day
Lest you think our Yahoo! Open Hack Day was all about Beck (yes, it was really cool to have him), we also released an incredible stream of stuff for the hackers to play with while they were hanging out with us at Yahoo! There is nothing like a big event with a hacker rock […]
Sex and Linux at Salon in 1999
I got a nice surprise in my inbox recently from Kent Brewster, one of my compatriots at YDN, when he saw the plea on my home page for a copy of my long-lost presentation at 1999 OSCON, Sex and Linux at Salon, which I did along with Jeffrey Radice, my partner. I knew it […]
Asterisk is the new LAMP
I met with a startup today that does some interesting work bridging web services APIs with telephony, and I stopped them early in their presentation to ask what their voice platform was. The discussion was purely about their service, not the backend nuts-and-bolts, but I just had to ask: “Are you using Asterisk?” […]
Microformats are huge at Yahoo!
From the Yahoo! Local blog (which is itself new), a massive announcement about Yahoo! support of microformats:
Starting today, we’re happy to announce Yahoo! Local fully supports the hCalendar, hCard, and hReview microformats on almost all business listings, search results, events, and reviews.
In sheer volume, I’m pretty sure this means Yahoo! Local has the largest implementation […]
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 at Mashup Camp
I’ll be at Mashup Camp on Monday and Tuesday. Hope to see some of you there. If you want to meet up, e-mail me at chad at chaddickerson with the usual dot com at the end.
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