I haven’t been playing with Pipes recently, mostly because I haven’t thought of anything to do with it. Fortunately with the advent of the Spore creature creator I thought it’d be nice to create an rss feed of my shared creatures. With a few moments of looking at html and a few more moments working [...]

Categories: pipes · spore · yahoo

Not really sure why, but I harbored the delicious notion that I could somehow be the one to snag felix@ymail.com yesterday, after all wasn’t it the point? That somehow releasing ymail.com and rocketmail.com would allow those who couldn’t get the names they wanted @yahoo.com to now get it? Because there’s not more than 3 Felix’s [...]

Categories: apple · email · google · review · web app · yahoo

UPDATED Fri Jun 13 15:28:09 EDT 2008 (see bottom)
So Yahoo and Google finally made the deal to put Google ads on some Yahoo search pages. Here’s what Jerry Yang has to say about it. And here’s what some dude that isn’t Larry or Sergey has to say about it. These have to be the saddest [...]

Categories: google · m&a · yahoo

I know, the big news on scaling (or the lack thereof) has been Twitter. More internet agitation on a given service, I have rarely seen. (oddly in the avalanche of complains, the one I like best is Winer’s where he suggests, rightly, that there is no replacement for Twitter, its energy is just evaporating). We’ll [...]

Categories: web service · web2.0 · yahoo

Anyone else getting tired of all this M&A foreplay going on right now? Microsoft and Yahoo! No! Yahoo with Google? Huh. Microsoft and a little bit of Yahoo but no Google? Maybe… Microsoft and Facebook and maybe some Yahoo and definitely no Google? What. Ever. Seriously, just sh*t or get off the pot.
The latest [...]

Categories: facebook · google · m&a · microsoft · yahoo

Another couple o’ awesome things happened while I wasn’t blogging - Google launched AppEngine and Amazon released the word that they had rolled out persistent storage to a select few and this would become a regular feature. These are both big noise in the world of cloud computing.
An interesting thing about these two services [...]

Categories: amazon · google · hosting · web service · yahoo

Well the internets were atwitter with talk of Microsoft and Yahoo officially breaking up this weekend. I believe that this is for the best for both companies, although I was definitely surprised. I’d been reading all along how it was more or less a done deal and not knowing anyone on the inside, I was [...]

Categories: m&a · microsoft · yahoo

Huh, just came across Yahoo’s announcement on their blog that they’re forming the OpenSocial Foundation with Google and MySpace. The goal of this brand spankin’ new foundation is to “ensure the neutrality and longevity of OpenSocial as an open, community-governed specification for building social applications across the web.”
I am of mixed minds about this. Well, [...]

Categories: google · social networks · yahoo

Huh, well, it’s pretty cool that MySpace has opened up it’s OpenSocial action with AppGallery. I have to admit that I didn’t expect such a big player to go live with OpenSocial so soon, so that’s pretty great. I’m a skeptic and continue to be a skeptic on this, but I’d sure love to see [...]

Categories: facebook · google · social networks · yahoo

I was thinking about the big tech companies… mostly the ones I kinda watch - so Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Apple. Recently it seems like there’s been a lot of shifts in the power dynamics of all of these places and with that shift in power came shifts in hiring patterns - at least as [...]

Categories: apple · google · microsoft · yahoo