chapter four – my 30s
I read an interesting article on Lebron James, one of the premier Basketball players who plays for the Cleveland Cavs – and how he supported different teams growing up. From the Bulls (from Chicago) the Yankees (from New York) and the Cowboys (from Dallas), not sure who he supported in the NHL but as Cleveland’s [...]
Umair’s been spending quite a bit of time talking about good and evil, open and closed, Microsoft and Yahoo, and Facebook and Google. A very basic synopsis would be that open is good, Microsoft, and increasingly Facebook, have bad DNA and this will prevent them from sustaining success in the long run. Whereas Google has [...]
During my last job, at a design agency in London, we had a pool table. At 530 everyday, almost like clockwork, 2-4 of us would go and shoot some stick. It was a great semi release, we would end up talking about projects or developments in the world of technology more often then not. When [...]
It’s here and it rocks. I heart Flickr a little more today. More information on the Flickr blog and there’s a video group that has some great content already. Personally I think this will be different to the other video sites already online (thinking YouTube and Facebook) because the community on Flickr is pretty strong [...]
Acquisitions and strategy Web acquisitions are not strategy. Acquisitions are usually financial gymnastics showing value. Personally, I think when a big company buys a smaller innovative company there’s a good chance that innovation in the acquired company dies. Google was guilty of this with its acquisitions of Blogger (nothing new there, WordPress, six apart innovative), [...]
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Delicious has infiltrated my consciousness. Over the past 24 hours I’ve had about 18 conversations about using delicious. And this morning I discovered I can use delicious better too! Yesterday Cathy and I had a conversation with the boss man about delicious actually being people powered search in addition to being a good repository for [...]
One of the interesting things about working for a large multinational organization is that everyone has an opinion about the company. This definitely takes some getting used to. I knew it was going to be interesting the day after I let people know I was joining Yahoo, this happened to be the same day the [...]
My name is Farhan. I hit 30 last year, finished my MBA last month and joined Yahoo last week – okay it was 5 weeks ago, what can I say I’m a sucker for patterns. I used to blog at vox, and while it was a useful blogging tool for someone who was working full [...]