Month: January 2007
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Open Source vs. Open APIs
When I helped start the Yahoo Developer Network, part of my job was to go around to all the product teams inside Yahoo and convince them that it would be good for their business to open up free web APIs. The response among technical folks was pretty universally enthusiastic. It’s just one of those ideas…
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Abandoned amusement park
I’m loving this series of pictures of nature reclaiming an abandoned amusement park (I think it’s in Japan).
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Internet celebs on WordPress
We just went down the list of the top 25 internet celebrities according to Forbes and found that an impressive 1/3 of them are using WordPress: #1 celebrity LonelyGirl15, Jeff Jarvis, Amanda Congden, Robert Scoble, Mike Arrington, Jimmy Wales, Merlin Mann and Om Malik. Congrats!
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In La Paz
The Automattic gang is spending the week in Mexico for our bi-annual company get-together. Would you buy a blog from these guys? Matt, Mike, Barry, Andy, Matt (hidden), Lloyd and Mark roaming the streets of Todos Santos. We’re staying at a bed and breakfast in La Paz, wifi is good, Arrachera is delicious and Wii…
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Biodiesel progress report
After a couple of months and 1000 miles running my Landcruiser on biodiesel I have the following to report: Pros: Feels great to be driving on soybeans! Getting gas at SFbiofuels has been easy (very nice people there too) The car runs perfectly well and a little more quietly than on petrodiesel No more puffs…
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Who is Kana?
I wasn’t planning on starting the new year with a complaint, but allow me to vent about Yahoo’s horrible customer support. I’ve been using Yahoo Music to load songs onto my iriver MP3 player. Until it stopped working last week. I followed all the instructions about re-acquiring DRM licenses and resetting various things. Nothing worked…