Month: October 2005
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Belated Review of Web 2.0
I’m a bit slow out the gate with this post and I expect you all to take whatever I say with a big ol’ grain of salt because of my new position with Yahoo. Truth is, there’s lots going on both here at Yahoo and the industry at large. Let’s take a quick rundown over…
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Burning Man Puppet Show
So Tyler & Julia are getting excited about Halloween – costumes are a big part of it. My sister also sent along some information about the Burning Man decompression party this weekend and while Izumi and I need to root around to find something interesting to wear, the kids already have their get up picked…
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Web 2.0 Acid Test
On the eve of the second annual Web 2.0 conference, Tim O’Reilly posts a longish analysis that tries to get to the bottom of this slippery label, “Web 2.0.” Ever more important because more and more marketing departments are slapping this label onto their products because it’s hip and bleeding edge, O’Reilly’s piece is seminal…
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Tombstone Epitaphs
We’re getting a jump on Halloween and putting some tombstomes out in front of the house for symbolic graves. Got some inspiration from True Tombstone Epitaphs but also added a few of our own such as one for Barney and "Frank N. Stein" Har Har – the holidays are upon us!
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The first week
One week at Yahoo and what a week it’s been! Monday was employee orientation – got myself badged up and they handed me my laptop. They have this new employee thing down to a science. We had over 80 people in the room and the HR person said they bring in about 50 new people…