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This Is Apparently How You Quit Yahoo [Video]

Paul Tarjan had been at Yahoo for three years. That was enough.
Yesterday, to commemorate his last day at the company, Tarjan released a video on YouTube (embedded below) that he says sum up his 1,032 days at Yahoo. In “White & Nerdy,” he raps about PHP, SearchMoney, and YUI — all things his hands were [...]

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Sun, March 28 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

The Daily Show Reveals Chatroulette To Be Filled With Creepy Journalists

If you’ve read about random video chat site Chatroulette lately, you’ll know that it is filled with naked people and journalists. And that’s exactly what The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart found in his exposé of the Web service. In between the random pervs, he actually found more journalists looking for pervs, or something. [...]

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Fri, March 5 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

More MySpace Product Strategy Laid Bare: MySpace Apps Expert Review Document

Internal MySpace product documents continue to leak into our inbox from presumably angry employees and former employees. Today we’ve got a late 2009 powerpoint presentation created by Tim Sutcliffe, MySpace’s Senior Manager Information Architecture. The document summarizes the recommendations on rebuilding the MySpace developer/apps platform from an outside UK based user experience firm called Userfocus.
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Tue, February 23 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Belgian Band Gets Creative With Video Annotations On YouTube

YouTube has long introduced ways for users to annotate their videos and add links to external websites, other videos on the site, and more. But I haven’t seen that many people or companies make use of video annotations in creative ways – I don’t spend that much time on YouTube to be honest, so maybe [...]

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Sun, January 31 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments