Author: Toni Schneider
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SXSW
My favorite personal moment at SXSW: Ted Rheingold from Dogster was introducing his panel on the topic of DIY web startups. He said something like “SXSW is a great place if you want to learn more about starting a web company. Just look around you. Lots of people here have done it. And chances are,…
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YDN news
Important news from the Yahoo Developer Network (which I used to work on when I was at Yahoo) about a new rev of the Shopping API, and more crucially news of upcoming Photos, Calendar and MyWeb APIs. Why is this important? Because it’s the first batch of Yahoo APIs that open up personal user data.…
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Update
My first few weeks at Automattic have been a whirlwind. It’s very fun to be back at a startup. Aside from some operational tasks (payroll, trademark applications, health insurance, yay) I’ve been talking to lots of customers and potential partners to figure out what business opportunities are available to us. Some of those partners are…
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Web 2.0 impedance mismatch
Everyone but Wall Street seems to be excited about the “new web”: Consumers: excited: 200,000 new MySpace users every day VCs: excited:pre-revenue web 2.0 startups are raising $5-10MM Press: excited: Business Week, Business 2.0, DesignTechnica, lots more Wall Street: not excited: Google drops 7% (again) overnight
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Gurgel
I definitely got the biodiesel bug now. Since my post on the topic I’ve gotten a lot of encouraging feedback and I’m now researching ways to import diesel Land Rovers and Land Cruisers (I’m also planning on test driving one of these). It’s occured to me that one of the reasons I like these types…
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Biodiesel?
Yesterday I found a fellow car nut in Braughm. We chatted and realized that we both like old Land Rovers. I told Braughm that I’d love to drive an old (pre 1994) Range Rover if it wasn’t such a gas hog. He came up with the perfect solution: find a diesel Range Rover and covert…
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First day
I’ve now officially moved on from my job at Yahoo and today is my first day at Automattic!
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Cochrane Talk
I heard a great talk this morning at the Etel conference. The very smart and entertaining speaker was Peter Cochrane. The presentation was about a number of future trends (VOIP, RFID, GPS, mapping, demise of telcos, convergence as a myth, and more), he used a combo of slides from presentations that are worth checking out…
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A great day
Sometimes things work out beautifully: a couple of feet of fresh powder at night, followed by clear blue skies in the morning, lots of skiing all day and Fondue in the evening 🙂
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Random quote
If you thought that nobody really talks in that certain way that various “bullshit generators” make fun of, consider this: a few weeks ago I got a voice mail from a recruiter and he said verbatim “Would you be interested in joining an exciting startup? They are called ****** and they provide a hosted on-demand…
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Fine, it’s cars then
I will now present a random car from the “I’d love to have one of these” collection: It’s a Lancia Stratos, famous for winning several rally world championships in the 1970s (including winning the famed Rally Monte Carlo in 75, 76, 77 and 79). It has a Ferrari Dino engine, less than a thousand road…
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Not sure yet
Nothing much here yet. I might use this blog to talk about the business side of wordpress.com. Or not. We’ll see.
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Moving On From Yahoo -> Automattic
I wasn’t going to write about this until my last day at Yahoo, but then Om Malik (the best informed man in Silicon Valley?) found out about 10 seconds after I started telling people at Yahoo, so here it goes: After a great time at Yahoo working on projects like the new Yahoo Mail (FKA…
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YDN Supports JSON
The Yahoo Developer Network just added JSON support for various APIs, as well as a Javascript Developer Center. Interesting side note: I just learned that the author of JSON, Douglas Crockford, works for Yahoo. He must be a modest guy because his name doesn’t show up on json.org (which he runs) or the Wikipedia entry…
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Konfabulator 3.0 Goodness
There’s a new version of Konfabulator, now called Yahoo! Widgets, available at widgets.yahoo.com. Since Konfabulator became part of Yahoo! in August, we’ve seen some pretty amazing usage numbers (all of it organic – there has been no promotion or marketing): 1.5 million downloads of Konfabulator/Yahoo! Widget Engine (not surprisingly, almost 90% of that is on…
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Two Cool Mashups
Two fun mashups I’ve recently come across: Find Lawton and Angie and Derek’s Videos. Both are simple and compelling examples of how online maps make for a surprisingly good UI into various bits of data.