Scott Gatz’s Blog

A good friend of mine is a French translator who also does voice overs for French language TV commercials, training videos, etc. At lunch this weekend, he told me a story about a client that made me think about how overly US-centric most companies still are. Most companies these days [...]

VC Rick Segal has a great post about how to treat employees who are leaving your company.

The Post Money Value: Exit Stage Left - Your last chance

Over the years at Yahoo! and at other companies I’ve inevitably had to watch some great team members move onto new and different careers, take time [...]

John Furrier at podtech.net interviewed me last week at BlogOn for his InfoTalk series.
We actually cover a pretty wide variety of stuff about RSS from how to make it easier, to my favorite Cub Scout RSS feed, and on to our research.
I usually hate how my voice sounds on [...]

If you are reading this, it is likely that you are interested in some of the work we are doing at Yahoo! in the RSS space. We’ve got an opening for an experienced, dedicated, bright product manager who wants to make great things happen here at Yahoo!. The official job description [...]

I spent all of last week in NYC for two conferences: BlogOn and the Empowering Brands conference. The audience for BlogOn was primarily PR folks and marketers, and the other’s audience was primarily marketers and ad agency folks. The biggest takeaway for me was a reminder of how those of us [...]

I haven’t been writing for the past few days partly because I’ve been travelling and partly due to a configuration problem with my blog. All my permalinks and friendly URLs were 404′ing, including my RSS feed. All is fixed again…

I’ve begun to read the Signal vs. Noise blog on a regular basis (its on my own My Yahoo!). I find all of the guys there insightful but I particularly look out for Jason Fried’s posts.
Today, Jason points out a great thing: Bessemer Venture Partners Anti-Portfolio.
BVP isn’t afraid [...]

I’m heading out to New York for two conferences where I’ll be speaking.
The first is BlogOn 2005 on Monday & Tuesday (10/17 & 10/18). I’ve been on their advisory panel and I’m also speaking at a session. Last year’s blog on was a great event, but clearly targeted to the [...]

On the Apprentice this week the winning team got to go on the field of Shea Stadium and play a little baseball with some Mets players. (is that really a reward, couldn’t they have gone to see the Yankees?) Craig mentioned how he thought that’d be a cool thing to [...]

While reading USA Today yesterday on my plane ride home, I read this great quote in an article about Web 2.0 by Kevin Maney:
It had all new buzzwords. Remember “B2B” and “push technology”? Now it’s “user-generated content” and “AJAX”. Until last week I thought AJAX was a cleaning fluid…but no–it’s an acronym for something [...]