Another Yahoo! Exec Resigns
Anyone else notice that a lot of long time Yahoo! executives are bailing on the company?
Yahoo’s chief technology officer is resigning after nearly a decade on the job, creating a management void as the Internet icon tries to mine more profits from a recent upgrade to its system for delivering [...]
Major Spammer Arrested
"Soloway, 27, was once on a top 10 list of spammers kept by The Spamhaus Project, an international anti-spam organization. Others have since topped him, mostly based in Russia and other countries out of reach of U.S. or European law."
Check out the eye-popping statistic from Ironport deep in the article about [...]
Russians and Climate Change
"Russian scientists believe that global warming can be slowed down by releasing aerosols into the lower stratosphere, a top scientist said Wednesday."
Anyone else not very comfortable with the notion of Russia releasing massive quantities of anything into the atmostphere? Their track record on environmental issues may need a few decades of [...]
Google Gears
Scoble covers Google’s latest offering, Gears.
They are showing me a demo of the new Google Reader using the new Gears plugin. After you load the Gears plugin you get a new icon at the top of your Reader window which enables offline capabilities of Google Reader. They showed how Google Reader then downloaded 2,000 feed [...]
More on Evolution of Advertising
"I wasn’t impressed. See, a customer who actually flew the airline – and had a bad experience – made more of an impression on me than a series of (undoubtedly highly expensive) paid ads. (I would add that I’ve flown on Delta occasionally without problems, but that’s beside the point.)"
There’s nothing [...]
Google Map’s Street View
Pretty damn cool.
Tags: Google Maps, Streetview
BT Acquires TiddlyWiki, Name Change Imminent
Jeremy Rustin sold his company to British Telecom, which at first glance may seem an improbable fit but when you consider the BT Workspace initiative it makes a lot of sense. Also, the fact that the team he will no doubt be a part of is based here in Palo Alto, well it’s actually a [...]
Peery, Arrillaga Honored
If you have ever wondered who the "Arrillaga" is that is on a quest to rename every building on the Stanford University campus, here’s a nice article featuring John Arrillaga and Richard Peery.
"They don’t know what the internal rate of returns is and they have no idea how to use [...]
Google’s Un-Memorial Day
I wasn’t going to post this but after thinking about it for the last day it really started to make me angry. Google’s holiday logos are pretty standard fare by now, so it was with some surprise when I learned that they didn’t do anything for Memorial Day even though they have special logos for [...]
The Eternal Quest for Good Design
"The idea of community, user generated content and more dynamic web pages are not inherently bad in the same way, they should be secondary to the primary things sites should get right."
I wanted to find something to disagree with Nielsen on but he is so right…
The one thing I would [...]
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