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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 [...]
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 [...]
Yahoo! Hack Day tomorrow, and some of my inspirations
Tomorrow at noon, we kick off our fourth Hack Day at Yahoo! It runs from noon tomorrow until noon Friday, followed by demos Friday afternoon and a party. As I write this, I am fielding questions from Yahoo hackers who are planning to stay here all night tomorrow night putting together their [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Blown away (again) by Hack Day
I organized the second Hack Day at Yahoo! this past Friday, and it was extraordinary (check out some of the Flickr photos tagged “hackday”). Rather than write a long post with my own analysis, I’ll leave it up to some of the participants (it was extraordinary because of them anyway — I just try [...]
Excited about Hack Day
We’re doing another Hack Day at Yahoo! tomorrow — can’t wait. I have no idea what’s going to happen. And that’s the best part (and absolutely intentional). We leave lots of room for emergence.
See Jeremy and my post for info on the last one, plus some Flickr photos. Expect more after [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]