From Phonescoop: LG Extends “Push-To” Concept with PTB April 1, 2005 source: LG Electronics Following closely on the heels of the PTV (Push-To-View) technology it demonstrated at 3GSM in February – as well as other recent “push-to” technologies such as Push-To-Talk (PTT) and Push-To-Share – LG today announced a new “Push-To” technology designed to bring …
Marc Glazer has written a preview of the new Yahoo! News for Online Journalism Review. This is a project I’ve been working on personally for many months and it will be exciting to see it get out to the public. He goes into detail about the product, the business and the process. I was in …
Have you ever ordered something cool online and just couldn’t wait to get it? Do you agonize over when it will be in your clammy little hands and obsessively check delivery tracking websites? Of course I certainly wouldn’t do such a thing, but just in case someone else has this “problem” I created an email …
As a engineering manager in a quickly growing company, I spend a lot of time trying to hire people. I spend hours poring over resumes, talking to candidiates and trying to convince them why Yahoo! is a great place to work – especially if you aren’t spending all your time hiring. 😉 But apparently not …
“It’s unbelievable,” he said of Fenway, “and I still have the best shower in the league. I don’t want them to take that away.” — Terry Francona, Manager of the Boston Red Sox on the recent decision to stay at Fenway
I don’t surf the web anymore. When the web was young, people would spend hours just visiting random sites on the web and seeing what’s out there. For some reason that’s become boring, or maybe the sites have just become less novel and boring. In any case, the only time I visit sites is when …
It’s a good thing I’m not a doctor. I would suck at it. I had to go to the doctor’s office this morning for some blood work and that went quicker than expected, so I went upstairs and got an appointment to have someone look at my rib. My doctor wasn’t in today, so I …
Sometimes a good proxy for how much fun you have over a vacation or even just weekend can be measured by how many injuries you inflicted upon yourself. By that measure, I had a LOT of fun last weekend. On Saturday, we took a long drive from home through San Jose, up Mt. Hamilton, down …
OK, local television background extra is probably more like it, but I was on TV. On Friday night, Bay Area Backroads aired their segment on Geocaching. A bunch of my friends were on it and I was in one scene at a dinner. I barely recognized myself in the quick pan of a dimly-lit room. …
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I’ve been doing a lot of work on my Geocaching tools recently. First, I rewrote most of the JavaScript for my GPS Coordinate Converter. It’s not a nasty mess anymore and it works for more funky ways that people type these things. Most obvious is that Firefox now works when you use negative signs. I …