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Rant Alert! I just finished the first of my three planned white papers last night, and decided to let it percolate a bit before moving on to the next two. It is currently a six-page screed on...
View ArticleYahoo! Widgets 4 is Finally Here!!! (and sleep is close behind)
[Originally posted on my 360 blog] It’s 3AM, and this is the end of a very busy day, which is nearly the end of a very busy week that has not been unlike pretty much all of the weeks that have blurred...
View ArticleBuh-bY!e
The week before last, I announced my plans to leave Yahoo! to those following me on Facebook and Twitter (oh yeah, I told my team in person first ), and last Tuesday, February 12 was my last day in...
View ArticleBack in Action
I’ve been a bit MIA of late, and it hasn’t just been limited to this blog — I’ve been slacking on replying to emails and other forms of electronic communications as well. To be honest, I kinda checked...
View ArticleCongratulations to the Yahoo! TV Widgets team!
Last week, my former team at Yahoo! launched Yahoo! TV Widgets to some great press coverage. This is a project that was underway before I left, and drew heavily on the work and people of the...
View ArticleHappyjoel on the CBS Evening News
Cross-posted from the Snowball Factory blog Last week, our friend (and first client) Joel Moss Levinson, aka Happyjoel, appeared in a CBS Evening News with Katie Couric segment called Cashing In on...
View ArticleSaaS vs Shrinkwrap or Never trust a company not on Twitter
While eating lunch today, I started to think about the growing complexity of my company‘s expenses and decided it might be a good time to start looking at accounting solutions. The fact that my...
View ArticleEntertainment-as-a-Service
[Cross-posted from my company blog.] I just got back from a really fun (and delicious) lunch with Peter of Pantless Knights, who is in LA working on a hilarious new video, and one of the main things...
View ArticleYou’re more than the Fucking Janitor: Thoughts on Startup Leadership
Last month, I had the honor of participating in the inaugural Foundry Group portfolio CEO summit where we had an enlightening discussion on leadership. To kick-off the conversation, one of the other...
View ArticleReplacing Oneself as CEO
I am very happy to announce that Fred McIntyre has joined awe.sm, the company I founded and have led for the last 4 years, as CEO (read more about it on TechCrunch). My new role is Head of Product...
View ArticleKonfabulator (Yahoo! Widgets) Developer Day — June 7
Shout it from the rooftops! Or maybe just mention it on your blog (which would be much less dramatic…yet now that I think about it, probably more effective). We Konfabulistas are inviting a few lucky...
View Articleawe.sm News
That there may be the last awe.sm pun I make on this blog, because today we’ve announced that Unified has acquired awe.sm! Every opening line I originally came up with for this post was clichéd as...
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