Over the years my camera has become an extension of my arm, relate? Of course you do. Those lucky souls like you and I who discover they have a passion for photography quickly find it to be magically intoxicating in every way. We just can’t get enough.
Month: February 2008
I like what you say – Nada Surf
Yesterday I posted an older Nada Surf song. Today, it’s a new one from their album Lucky which came out today. I’ve been listening to it for awhile since the band had the tunes up on their MySpace page for awhile now. Highly recommend it.
Blizzard of ‘77 – Nada Surf
Back in Boston. Brrr, it’s cold and tough transition from my weekend away.
How to get open source developers to support your platform
So it looks like Google’s Android SDK is getting an update and as a result the $10M Challenge has been delayed.
I think the idea of a contest for developers is an interesting concept. $10M is a lot of money but to the actual developer it’s more like $275k max.
At the end of the day, I think developers will have to believe that they will be able to build something successful & interesting ontop of Android. And the platform has to be easy and fun. That’s the key and much more important to winning a prize since only a few folks will get a cash prize.
I wonder how many apps will come from this. It will be interesting to watch.
Goodnight Daddy
My wife lauren has a new cameraphone (blackberry pearl). her new thing is taking photos of the kids while I’m traveling and then MMS-ing them to me.
I love this. It’s great getting pix of my family at random times of the day.
I just got this one a few minutes ago. Kids giving me a big smile before they go off to bed.
California Stars – Wilco
It’s supposed to rain today and tomorrow here in the bay area. but I don’t care I’m still having fun.
I hope the deal doesn’t go through
I made it to the Bay Area at 10am from Boston this morning.
By the time I landed, I had voicemails, emails, Twitters and my Tumblr dashboard was filled with posts all about Microsoft’s offer to buy Yahoo.
There are lots of folks that are giving Microsoft credit for their bid and how they did it.
There are plenty of critics about how badly Yahoo is screwing up their once beloved company.
There are many pointing out that both of these companies lost their way.
This proposed deal also challenges a Microsoft (self proclaimed) mantra for decades which is that they may not get something right but by version3.0 they will nail it. Well I guess they dont’ feel that way about search, advertising, community and web services.
But this is a bad move. Not only for Yahoo – but for Microsoft as well.
And it’s not good for entrepreneurs.
And it’s not good for their customers.
These cultures are about as different as it gets.
I can’t think of single combination of this scale that worked out even reasonaby well.
On the other hand there are significant examples where big companies started to falter and their management was able to turn things around. It’s hard but much better than a merger. Consider the dark & challenging days at Apple, Cisco, IBM, Adobe and yes even Microsoft to name a few. (by the way, it’s fun to pick on MSFT but they just had a killer quarter).
Yahoo has some amazing brands, properties and a loyal following at places like del.icio.us, flickr, my.yahoo, finance.yahoo, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Answers to name a few. I hope Private Equity or Apple comes to Yahoo’s rescue. I know it’s unlikely given the price and Apple doens’t like to buy things at this scale even though they could afford it.
This is all good for Google. They must be smiling away in Mtn View today.