Milestone
Leaving Yahoo - Going Mobile
On Friday I’ll hand over my badge, laptop, and Blackberry, finishing up three years at Yahoo. I’m leaving MyBlogLog in the good hands of Todd Sampson to drive the product vision and manage the engineering team and Tilly McLain who will look over the day-to-day care and feeding of the site and community.
My self-proclaimed tag [...]
Cognitive Surplus will free up time to
One of the best talks at this year’s Web 2.0 Expo was Clay Shirky on Cognitive Surplus. In it he suggests that modern television is a, “cognitive heat sink, dissipating thinking that might otherwise have built up and caused society to overheat.”
He concludes after describing how a child spent a few minutes looking for the mouse connected to [...]
End of an Era
Back in February Western Union announced that it would no longer be sending telegrams ending a 150 year tradition of the hushed interruption by the butler of urgent news from lands far, far away.
Thus it is only fitting that today we hear that the New York Times has shut down its fabled Recording Room which [...]
David Weinberger on the Miscellaneous
One of the great things about working at Yahoo is that on any given week there’s a brown bag lunch with someone interesting or provocative. Posters around campus promote these bigger draws and I subscribe to an internal mailing list which lets me know of the others. I try and make it to as many [...]
Yahoo! Pipes : A Giant Erector Set for the Web
I’m not a programmer but I love to tinker. Much to the chagrin of my parents, I liked nothing better than taking things apart and seeing how they worked. The thing that made the early web so much fun was the View > Page Source command in the browser which allowed me to take apart [...]
Web 2.0 Summit - where do we go from here?
Various technological shenanigans kept me from live-blogging last week’s Web 2.0 Summit as planned so here’s my run down of the highlights from my notes. Don Tapscott’s workshop and the popular Launchpad session are covered in earlier posts.
The conference has already been covered in depth so I’ll try and add my own personal observations that [...]
I’ve been Wagged!
It wasn’t exactly the debut on Valleywag I was looking for but I’m on a roster of folks scheduled to be booted from Yahoo next week:
Senior Product Manager in Corporate Development Ian Kennedy [here for another ride (maybe the tilt-a-whirl)]
Heh. They’ve got me in the wrong group, I’m a Product Manager of publisher.yahoo.com putting some [...]
“We can’t control the puppets but we thank you for your understanding” - Yahoo Hack Day ‘06
Photo by Scott Beale / Laughing Squid
Success on the internet is not a zero sum game. New activity can come from any corner and audience and attention often expands to meet this demand. Much has to do with the spirit of “giving back” which is one of the principles upon which the internet is [...]
Serving the space between - Yahoo Publisher Network
As a blogger and old school web publisher (Tokyo Q, one of my first efforts, is now enjoying its 10th year of service), I love to talk about tools that help publishers take advantage of the internet as a delivery channel. Coming up on my first anniversary at the big Y, I am now putting [...]
Chinese Blog tops Technorati 100
Technorati has been keeping track of the increasing number of blogs in languages other than English reporting at their last State of the Blogosphere that English is no longer the dominate language of blogs; the majority of blog posts are now in Japanese.
The number one blog on the Technorati 100 is now, 老徐 徐静蕾 新浪BLOG [...]
