Category Archives: yahoo

Openness, evil and reusability

Posted on May 19, 2008 by Matt McAlister

I’ve stopped blogging over the last several weeks as I uprooted my family and moved to London to start my new job. But there have been some interesting things worth tracking recently I thought I might mention. (Interestingly, Twitter usurped … Continue reading →

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Open source grid computing takes off

Posted on February 19, 2008 by Matt McAlister

This has been fun to watch. The Hadoop team at Yahoo! is moving quickly to push the technology to reach its potential. They’ve now adopted it on one of the most important applications in the entire business, Yahoo! Search. From … Continue reading →

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A handy music playlist tool

Posted on January 10, 2008 by

I’ve been looking for a way to share playlists on my blog and elsewhere online for a long time. It’s been surprisingly hard to find a really convenient way to do it. DRM and industry lockdown have been a big … Continue reading →

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The problem with being popular (part 2)

Posted on November 19, 2007 by

One of the more interesting sciences, in my mind, is how information relevance is both determined, surfaced and then evolved. In Fred Wilson’s recent Cautionary Techmeme Tale he argues that making news popular takes away its social context and therefore … Continue reading →

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Investing in video at YDN

Posted on November 6, 2007 by

We’ve been playing around with video as a communications mechanism on Yahoo! Developer Network for a while now. Our casual attempts to generate interest in Yahoo! technologies through interviews, screencasts, tech talks, etc. have worked really well. So, we hired … Continue reading →

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Ad networks vs ad exchanges

Posted on October 24, 2007 by

I spent yesterday at the Right Media Open event in Half Moon Bay at the Ritz Carlton Hotel. Right Media assembled an impressive list of executives and innovators including John Battelle of Federated Media, David Rosenblatt of DoubleClick, Scott Howe … Continue reading →

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The positive outlook for Yahoo!

Posted on October 16, 2007 by

I was able to contribute a quote to a BusinessWeek.com story by Catherine Holahan on changes happening at Yahoo!. Unfortunately, she also quotes from a really old blog post of mine (July 2006) which feels like a lifetime ago, but … Continue reading →

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The magic of Hack Day

Posted on June 26, 2007 by

Even after seeing Hack Day work internally a bunch of times and now twice in the open format with external developers I’m still amazed every time. There’s something magical about the event. Yes, ok, obviously, if you attract a bunch … Continue reading →

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The Hack Day London Video

Posted on June 18, 2007 by

I’m heading back home from Hack Day London tomorrow. What a spectacular event. I did my best to capture the behind-the-scenes action this time, as I think the Hack Day event process itself is really interesting, too. Of course, sharing … Continue reading →

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The next Yahoo! Hack Day to be in London in June

Posted on April 18, 2007 by

This event should be really good. I’ve been working with the local Yahoo! team in London and their partner BBC Backstage to keep the spirit of the original Open Hack Day alive, and I think the teams there have done … Continue reading →

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