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Two weeks ago, Yahoo held its quarterly internal hack day. Today Yahoo! holds its first Open Hack Day.
The first I ever heard about a hack day was from Ken and the Jotspot guys. They had a hack day to have some fun and work on something that wasn’t on their normal “to-do list”. [...]

Yahoo!’s Bangalore Office on MG Road

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One of the perks of my new job is working with an amazing team of developers that live and work in Bangalore, India.
So, for the first time ever, I’ve traveled to Asia, I stopped in [...]

Many of you who read this blog have gotten to know me as Yahoo’s “RSS Guy” but my official role has been a lot broader than that. I’ve lead Yahoo’s Personalization team and have worked to ensure that personalization is woven into all that Yahoo does, that you enter info once (like where [...]

You’ve probably read that Yahoo! released a beta version of a new home page. It’s a radically better page and it seems like a lot of people think its a good thing. My team has been working closely with the front page team and I know that there are some more additions coming [...]

Josh Grossnickle (Director of Research at Yahoo), Todd Board (Ipsos), Charlene Li (Forrester) and I will be speaking at tonight’s Silicon Valley American Marketing Association tonight. More details are available here: at the SVAMA website. This is an open event (anyone can attend) although there is a fee for non-members.
If [...]

So, this week I’ve been waxing nostalgic.
Two friends at Yahoo! are both hitting their 10 year anniversary working here. It’s hard to believe that someone could be working at an internet company that long. But then I instantly think about myself. I’m close to my 7 1/2 years mark here at [...]

Seems like a busy day today, but I’m psyched that we can finally talk about the news about WordPress and Yahoo! Web Hosting. Matt Mullenweg (creator of WordPress) announces the WordPress on Yahoo deal.
What this means is that if you sign up for Yahoo! Web Hosting, you can now get WordPress in a one-click [...]

At last week’s Syndicate conference, I got the chance to give a lunchtime keynote in front of about 200-300 attendees (its hard to count while you are presenting ).
I walked through the work my team has been doing around RSS, gave a demo of the new Yahoo! Mail beta, and talked a little bit [...]

This week is the Syndicate Conference in San Francisco.   When I went to the first Syndicate in May in NYC, I was floored at the idea that there would even be a whole conference dedicated to content syndication/RSS.   When we started working on RSS here, Dave Winer had just launched RSS 2.0 we weren’t sure [...]

Yesterday, we put out TWO new products.    One was the much blogged about/talked about RSS Reader in the new Yahoo! Mail.    The other, was the ability to get IM, SMS or Email alerts to any RSS Feed out there.   We call it Feed/Blog Alerts and its live now on http://alerts.yahoo.com/
If you have never used Yahoo! Alerts, [...]