Archive for November, 2005
What’s going on at Yahoo?
If you’re interested in reading up on what Yahoo! is thinking about, I encourage you to read these three pieces,
A Journey to the Center of Yahoo, The New York Times
The Flickrization of Yahoo!, Business 2.0
Intertaining Yourself, Forbes
I know it’s a bit rah, rah about my employer but I hope, after reading these, you get a [...]
End of the Season
Today was Tyler’s last day of soccer. This was his third season and he’s come a long way. They still don’t keep score so I’m not sure of their record but I’m pretty sure the Alameda Lions were more interested in the snacks at the end of each game than the actual play. There’s still [...]
Privacy Wall
I wrote the following post on Friday and was going to mull it over for a bit but then this article came out in today’s Washington Post that made the issues raised here all the more timely.
An interesting topic was brought up that was glossed over in coverage of Friday’s Search SIG. John Battelle warned [...]
SD Forum Search SIG
I went to the SD Forum Search SIG over at the Microsoft Silicon Valley campus last night. The first session was a talk between John Battelle and his old editor at MacWorld, Dan Farber (now Editor in Chief at ZDNet). Then there was a panel discussion featuring the viewpoints of four companies that are building [...]
TimesSelect Annual Revenues Nearly $5M
The New York Times announced that it has over 270,000 subscribers to it’s premium TimesSelect service. PaidContent does some back of the envelope calculations and calculates that they are pulling in $4,954,000 in annual revenue from this venture only 52 days after launch.
Lizards & pork chop hats = entertainment
Now wonder the rest of the world thinks Japan is crazy. Here’s a video of an old game show featuring lizards and girls with pork chop hats. (pointer and further commentary on BoingBoing)
Tag Cloud
I’m playing around with Tag Cloud and put a large chunk of my OPML into it to see what all the blogs that I watch are talking about. Looks like there’s an unhealthy obsession with Google
I’ve been thinking a lot about how to creatively manage the flow of news that comes across and [...]
Yahoo to connect to TiVo
Via the New York Times, Yahoo and TiVo announce that TiVo users will soon be able to access Yahoo information (Weather, Traffic) and Yahoo users will have shortcut to their TiVo from their personalized Yahoo television listings.. (I just checked and the link to add to your TiVo’s To Do recording list is already there!) [...]
James Fallows on Yahoo & Social Media
I was pleased to see this weekend’s piece in the New York Times by James Fallows attempting to get a vision of what is driving Yahoo innovation and scored the following quote from Jeff Weiner, Yahoo’s SVP of Search & Marketing,
“You can look at the evolution of search as a play in three acts,” said [...]
RSS is the TCP/IP Packet of Web 2.0
Reading through Richard MacManus’ excellent recap of coverage of Microsoft’s live.com launch event I followed the link to Nivi’s comment on CrunchNotes that "live" spelled backwards is "evil" therefore if Google is not “evil” that means that Google = Microsoft. (clever!)
This lead me to Nivi’s post about how new services out there which generate or [...]
