updates @ m.blog

Well, looks like this just went public, so might as well announce it here as well. After completing my tour of duty at Flickr, I’ll be joining Bitly as Vice President of Product this spring. Bitly has a fantastic small team of really smart folks, and I’m excited to go help build some new and [...]

So uh, yeah… I know these sorts of personal departure posts are a bit trite, and I certainly have mixed feelings about posting one. However, as Yahoo-bashing is apparently quite de rigueur in the tech press these days, I wanted to make sure my reasons for leaving Flickr were publicly posted in my own words, [...]

Clearly, bug tracking systems need achievements! (Kellan and me causing trouble with FlickrHQ internal tools. My favorite is the one you get for fixing a bug after 2am.) Coincidentally, a nice post today from Rands today on game-like incentives for software development, which inspired me to post this screenshot publicly. (obvious apologies to 4sq for [...]

So, I haven’t been actively blogging here in a long, long time… However, I have been posting various things that interest me fairly regularly on my tumblr page, which you very well may want to read if you are already following this blog.

I didn’t actually get it (unlike email, most IM systems have no delivery confirmation, and client/server sync issues are unfortunately quite common). You have a history of sending me and my team annoying queries that are a waste of our time, so I’m going to pretend the above happened and hope you figure out the [...]

So apparently some nosey blogger finally discovered Flickr’s dirty little secret — that we’re deviously adjusting the color and sharpness of people’s photographs to make them look better. But that just scratches the surface of the sophisticated image-enhancing algorithm we use. The full details below the jump.

Pinky and blue-y!

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Lost Sensations, originally uploaded by | HD |. Woo: “Creative Director Jenny Lam expanded the search to Flickr and contacted people who took really interesting pictures, asking them, “So, how would [...]

If you looked at my Flickr profile in the past few days, you may have noticed a small change I made… Too busy to post a proper announcement! Short version that doesn’t reveal anything sensitive: I’m thrilled to be taking my areas of research expertise and applying them towards strategic operations to help shape the [...]

I’ve been too lazy to make a full blog post about this, but I have to link to it sometime. I’m officially yet another degree overeducated, and have ended my career at U.C. Berkeley. You can read the “award winning” (no, really) thesis Jen and I produced on this site, but I’d recommend waiting for [...]