Scott Gatz’s Blog

You may have seen the notes from Daniel, Chad, Bradley or Jeremy, but our part of Yahoo is hiring (like crazy) and we’re looking for the best and brightest to come join our team.
As you may remember, I run a group called Advanced Products at Yahoo!, and I’m lucky enough to be in the position [...]

Today I stumbled across the announcement of the new Palm Treo 750.
Back in October, I asked our mobile team here for a Windows Mobile phone to do some testing. Their response “oh, here’s one take it”. It was a Treo 750. While I love gadgets, I hadn’t read [...]

Photo from flickr: HammHawk
Last night the New Orleans Saints played their first home game since Hurricane Katrina in the newly remodeled Superdome. I think it is very important the world see that New Orleans is (slowly) coming alive.
I went to New Orleans over the Labor Day weekend this year; friends and I [...]

I’m off to NYC for the Syndicate Conference. At December’s conference I gave a keynote, this time I’m happy to just be able to enjoy the conference as a participant. My colleagues Peggy White (GM of Y! Finance) and Chad Dickerson will be doing the speaking this time around. [...]

It’s rare that I hear overly dilbert-esque things at work, but just a few minutes ago, I walked by two people who were staring at a desktop PC’s tower which was laying sidewise on a desk and seemed to have some sort of mud on it (really).
I didn’t hear the question, but the [...]

This weekend I travelled to Las Vegas on Southwest Airlines and I noticed a very simple principle at work. If you don’t know, SWA doesn’t have assigned seating. Instead, you get a letter (A, B or C) and they board everyone with A, then everyone with B and so on. Southwest [...]

So today I went into my WordPress control panel and discovered 11 comments (and 53 spam comments) sitting in my queue waiting for approval.
 I had WP set to email me when I got comments.  I got no email, so I just assumed you were all a quiet bunch. 
Turns out when I got upgraded to WP [...]

So, it seems as though I’ve fallen into that blogging slump. This is the point in a blogs life where you’ll see a post (just like this one) that says “sorry I haven’t posted in a while I’ve been busy”.   That post is usually followed immediately by another one 6 months later saying “I guess [...]

Last week at CES all the internet big guys had something to launch. MSFT & MTV are going after the music market, Google learned how to bundle software apps together and Yahoo announced Go.
While a lot of blogger attention was paid to those Mountain View guys, I think people missed [...]

With the holidays I’m a bit behind in blogging, so this is probably the last “look back on 2005″ post out there.   When I look back at this 2005 I see a lot of great and memorable things that have happened in the world, the industry, at my company and for me.   But this post isn’t about [...]