Archive for November, 2006

Yahoo’s UI library and the like

I’ve always had mixed feelings about Yahoo!.
I liked them in the earliest of days, when it was just a little directory of stuff on the www (as I remember calling it). I got fairly turned off when it became hugely successful, because of its “vibrant” esthetic and extremely commercial focus (ads everywhere!). I [...]

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The ran in van. falls manly on the plan

Note to people far from here: Please send sunny thoughts. We’ve had one of the wettest Novembers on record so far, there are landslides everywhere, including some into our reservoirs, causing a boil-water advisory. Upside: we had a nice time sledding & making snow forts last weekend.

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Yahoo! and Google’s approaches to good deeds

Google has Google.org, which has a billion dollars of seed money and little goals like literacy, clean water, eradicating poverty and other small projects.
Yahoo! has (as far as I can tell) “Yahoo! for good“, which is a web site where they can elicit UGC (user-generated content) showing how their users are doing good. Most [...]

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A good quote from my friend Mark Y…

all worthy aspects of human life are, directly or indirectly,
conjugations of the verb, “to eat”.

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