Yahoo! —
Hack Day was a blast. Someone called us “punk rock”, which is just about the best compliment I can think of.
Heather and I co-wrote a post for Flickr Blog, so I’ll keep this one short.
I think it was somewhere around 3am, while I was making the rounds passing out free Red Bull to […]
We’ve just posted the schedule for the “workshops portion” of Open Hack Day, part of the first of our HackDay events to be open to the public.
While the rest of the schedule hasn’t been posted yet, you can be assured it’s going to be fun. Really fun. (Well, it’ll help if you’re at […]
Yesterday we launched geotagging on Flickr, and while we knew it was going to be popular, the actual scale has been amazing. In the first 24 hours since launch, we’ve had over one million photos geotagged.
If you have tried out the feature yet, below is an example of what it looks like — here’s […]
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 Onion and Web 2.0, Originally uploaded by jchaddickerson.
So sad I missed this.
Tom Cruise at YRB, Originally uploaded by rnair.
Since the word has apparently now gotten out about Tom Cruise speaking at Yahoo!, I thought I’d share this picture of him visiting our humble research lab in Berkeley.
Any similarities to my body is strictly coincidental.
Big news from Yahoo! today: our very talented User Experience Design team is constantly slaving away to make all those fancy and complicated widgets that make building increasingly-complex web applications possible. In particular, there is one team that works on a standardized library available to all Yahoos to take advantage of when coding a […]
What social bookmarking service should I use? I had originally started with del.icio.us, but when I started working at Yahoo! I decided to start using MyWeb2.0 beta, as part of the “eat your own dog food” philosophy. In doing so, I discovered I actually liked MyWeb quite a bit, and it had unique […]
Big kudos to Chad Dickerson of the Technology Development Group for organizing Hack Day at Yahoo! Essentially, HackDay was a day for people at Y! to work on whatever pet project they wanted, with free food and an element of competition thrown in to motivate folks. As others have noted, it was a fun […]
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Know thy audience, originally uploaded by mroth.
Diagram on one of my whiteboards at work, enlargement.
Finally signed my contract today, so I can announce this publicly: Starting Monday, I’ll be working on research at the newly announced Yahoo! Research Labs - Berkeley. I’m going to be working with some insanely bright and talented people, so I’m thrilled to be involved.
To commemorate the occasion, I’ve created a Yahoo! Avatar […]
We finally announced this today, after keeping it quiet for months:
SUNNYVALE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–July 15, 2005– Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - News), a leading global Internet company, today announced that Yahoo! Research Labs and the University of California, Berkeley will open a research facility near the campus in Berkeley, California. The facility, which will open its doors […]
Matthew Rothenberg is a social technologist at Yahoo!, now doing product strategy and management on the Flickr team. A New York City expatriate, he is currently slumming it in the SF Bay Area. For more info, visit his homepage.