“There’s nothing new to that fact that people play a direct role in how we discover what may interest us on the Web. It goes back to Yahoo!’s earliest days. Back to links.net, back to the NCSA What’s New page. It goes to the heart of what blogging is all about. People have been way… Continue Reading

In the middle of the craziness of getting ready to go away for a bit,and the fact I’m going to spend part of my vacation writing, I’ve been thinking about my job and what I find rewarding about it. Being a product development lead for a Yahoo! business unit is a great fit for me… Continue Reading

One of my favorite photogs–and someone I wish I could hang with more–is Kris Krug, who is travelling in China and posting to flickr. …check em out.

“Generally speaking (strong women) seem to live their lives to the fullest they know how. Doing the things that bring them joy and fulfillment without trampling others in the process. They create friendships and connections that are genuine, honest, and open. A strong woman will be upfront with you when you have pissed her off.… Continue Reading

Smashing Magazine: Well designed blogs Jeremiah: Goes to Forrester as an analyst–welll-done! The Economist: Semantic webs gets practical with trip organizer tool Tripit.

Everyone–from the New York Times to the entire blogosphere, has commented on Yahoo‘s latest reorg. For people in my corner of the world, one of the biggest points, of course, is that our business unit– Personals–moves to Jeff Weiner’s group. It has been great working with Hilary and the team in LMC, but I’ve also… Continue Reading

So I became an avid Facebook user on May 24th, the day FB announced the full-blown API. Why? The chance to experience a full-blown social network ecosystem (that wasn’t MySpace) was irresistible–especially as hundred or thousands of other tech heads like me did exactly the same thing. So, here it is 3 months later, and… Continue Reading

” I am 53 years old and have been working for internet companies since 1996. I live in the Bay Area. I don’t confuse myself with most of my generation – my friends who work in other industries, and who live elsewhere, are not nearly as comfortable with online networking as I am. The numbers… Continue Reading

Paid Content reports that BabyCenter, under new prez Tina Sharkey, has bought Palo Alto parenting community Maya’s Mom. This is newsworthy for several reasons: Shows Tina’s decisiveness and strategic skills Suggests that the lessons of Weblogs Inc and the network effect were not lost on Tina–or on Judith Meskill, her editorial director Proves that deep… Continue Reading

“I still feel the weekend in my bones…I think we all had a bit more of the weekend in our bones this morning. It could have something to do with the fact that Summer will be over before too long. Or it could simply be that many of us had enjoyable weekends. In either case,… Continue Reading