Archive for the 'yahoo' Category

Yahoo! Shine…. already shining with user-created blog posts

April 2nd, 2008

Wow. Yahoo! launched their new women’s property, Shine yesterday. I have to say, while I’m not the right gender for their target audience, I really like what they’ve done.
Here’s what stands out for me: integrated email and user blogs. (Click the graphic for a larger image. I’ve outlined the […]

All your Y-Bases are belong to MSFT-us

February 16th, 2008

“Whiteboard Wisdom”, courtesy of chris.newman on Flickr

new Yahoo! Health Beta looks great

October 13th, 2007

Wow. Just browsed to Y! Health to check out the blogs, and saw the new Health Beta. On first glance (it’s Sat night, I really need to get off the computer..) it’s cleaner, the community features look more integrated with the content. The site looks freaking great. Congrats to the […]

Nice crystal

August 24th, 2007

Congrats to Aurora, Annie, Karen, Nilesh, and Sridhar for the Yahoo platform excellence award. Well-freaking-deserved.

Yahoo gossip

June 28th, 2007

So much gossip-worthy politicking took place, and in addition, I am still getting a steady stream of news about all the drama from my friends there. I just had to post some of the news/gossip/rants about the latest shenanigans.
Just teasing. Move along now.

Saying goodbye to my big, purple friend. And all my little purple friends, too.

June 12th, 2007

After almost 5 years (4 years, 11 months to be more precise) I’ve officially left Yahoo!
I remember so clearly the first time I stepped onto the campus in Sunnyvale, back in 2001. It was awesome, especially for someone who’d worked at a string of small startups. Here I was at […]

get ‘on stage’ at MTV awards: innovative twist

April 30th, 2007

First of all, this MTV movie awards contest site is pretty cool. Submit your spoof, a spoofer can win their own freaking MTV movie award.
But the part of the site I reeeeally like is the ‘get on stage‘ component. Send in a short clip of yourself, and you can show up […]

Yahoo! Canada gets social

March 28th, 2007

If you haven’t seen it, check out Yahoo! Canada’s “Up Your Music” contest. They’ve taken the concept from the first Yahoo! Talent Show, and applied it to a chance to win a music deal from Universal.
Now, it’s not just that I love seeing software infrastructure scale… there is some good music here. I […]