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Community “Products”

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...

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Yahoo! 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...

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Buh-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...

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Back 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...

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Congratulations 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...

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Happyjoel 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...

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SaaS 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...

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Entertainment-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...

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You’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...

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Replacing 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...

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Badgers! (Actually, Badges. For Widgets)

Get your own here In your face Spiegelman!

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Konfabulator (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...

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awe.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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