New Pipes release, iPhone support

As reported on the Pipes Blog, Jonathan and the Pipes team just pushed a new release with features both useful and cool. I’m especially thrilled about the iPhone support (having just gotten an iTouch, thanks Mr. Hornik!)
In keeping with the endless stream of jokes that name “pipes” inspires, Jonathan created what may turn out […]

Mansur’s passing

Rashi’s father Mansur, the silver Weimaraner

Today Rashi’s father Mansur left this world. It was a profound event, and I’m still collecting all of my feelings about it. He was a special dog, a special being. He traveled the world and touched so many people. […]

Brightcove v. Maven

The Boston Globe has an interesting article about Brightcove and Maven, or more specifically Jeremy Allaire v. Hilmi Ozguc. I know both of them a little bit, and have been following their respective companies for a while.
Both of them are really Virage 2.0, or at least the part of our business that we used […]

Breaking: Stewart playing with Sonnet, taking fewer meetings

Stewart responds to the Valleywag post:

Aaaaaaaactually, I’m going on paternity leave, not leaving Yahoo! (I took some of my leave in July and found that I rushed back a little early.) I am actually going to be changing more diapers and coaxing more burps for a while (thanks for getting that right - I do […]

Major improvements to Yahoo Search

Want to congratulate Jeff, Vish, Tim, Eckart, Luke and Tom and the cast of hundreds who launched the improvements to Yahoo Search last night. I’ve seen some folks in the blogosphere underestimate the nuance and ultimately impact of this innovation. Making a change this radical is a bona fide “big deal”, and there […]