The next Yahoo! Hack Day to be in London in June
This event should be really good. I’ve been working with the local Yahoo! team in London and their partner BBC Backstage to keep the spirit of the original Open Hack Day alive, and I think the teams...
View ArticleThe Hack Day London Video
I’m heading back home from Hack Day London tomorrow. What a spectacular event. # I did my best to capture the behind-the-scenes action this time, as I think the Hack Day event process itself is really...
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The magic of Hack Day
Even after seeing Hack Day work internally a bunch of times and now twice in the open format with external developers I’m still amazed every time. There’s something magical about the event. # Yes, ok,...
View ArticleThe positive outlook for Yahoo!
I was able to contribute a quote to a BusinessWeek.com story by Catherine Holahan on changes happening at Yahoo!. Unfortunately, she also quotes from a really old blog post of mine (July 2006) which...
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Ad networks vs ad exchanges
I spent yesterday at the Right Media Open event in Half Moon Bay at the Ritz Carlton Hotel. # Right Media assembled an impressive list of executives and innovators including John Battelle of Federated...
View ArticleInvesting in video at YDN
We’ve been playing around with video as a communications mechanism on Yahoo! Developer Network for a while now. Our casual attempts to generate interest in Yahoo! technologies through interviews,...
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The problem with being popular (part 2)
One of the more interesting sciences, in my mind, is how information relevance is both determined, surfaced and then evolved. # In Fred Wilson’s recent Cautionary Techmeme Tale he argues that making...
View ArticleA handy music playlist tool
I’ve been looking for a way to share playlists on my blog and elsewhere online for a long time. It’s been surprisingly hard to find a really convenient way to do it. # DRM and industry lockdown have...
View ArticleOpen source grid computing takes off
This has been fun to watch. The Hadoop team at Yahoo! is moving quickly to push the technology to reach its potential. They’ve now adopted it on one of the most important applications in the entire...
View ArticleOpenness, evil and reusability
I’ve stopped blogging over the last several weeks as I uprooted my family and moved to London to start my new job. But there have been some interesting things worth tracking recently I thought I might...
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