Video of Martin Friedmann

In an effort to remove physical clutter around my house between gigs, I bought a cool device: the Pinnacle Video Transfer unit. The device is cheap ($129), accessible (bought mine at Best Buy) and works exactly as advertised.
One of the things I ripped was my old VHS copy of the memorial that […]

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. […]

Thanks for the Birthday Wishes

Due to facebook and plaxo, a lot of people seemed to know it was my birthday yesterday and sent their good wishes. Thanks!
I had a truly incredible day. Krista and I spent a couple days in Big Sur at the Ventana Inn. It was so peaceful, and relaxing. It’s not “posh” […]

Saved by the bark…

Last night at about 11:30pm, I’m sitting on the couch next to Rashi, who is curled up in a ball sleeping… I’m getting ready to pick up Krista from SFO… Outta nowhere we hear someone run up our front steps and knock on the door… and try the handle.
Rashi goes nuts, barking like crazy… […]

Kurt Vonnegut… gone.

Moments ago I learned Kurt Vonnegut passed.
I don’t read much fiction, but I loved Vonnegut. I even picked up his more recent stuff… Like Dylan, even when he was not at his peak, he was still worthwhile.
Sometime around 1986 he did a lecture at the University of Michigan. I somehow weaseled my […]

Five Things You Don’t Know About Me

So Ken tagged me a while ago, but I’ve been chilling. Now I’m back in the saddle and ready to blog into 07. I’ll have more to say RSN (real soon now) about Yahoo. It’s actually been somewhat amusing and illuminating watching the media frenzy from my unique perspective.
Anyway, here are […]

Flickr as “Eyes of the World”

The Elephant’s guides
Originally uploaded by Phil Gyford.

Stewart has referred to Flickr as the “Eyes of the World”… This is a totally apropos vision, but also a not so veiled reference to Stewart’s hippie roots.
While I was a grad student, colleagues Ted Adelson and John Wang […]

CNBC Asia Squawkbox

Just got back from Singapore for this, and did a 4m piece on CNBC Asia’s Squawkbox. I don’t believe there’s a public copy, but Yahoo’s can find the clip on backyard.

Took everything I had to pull myself together past the jetlag and mental fogginess for the 4m piece.
Hope to post more about the trip, […]

My New Job!

I’ve been very eager to publicly announce this. There were some pretty good excuses as to why this has taken me more than a month. I’ve been wicked busy, and moreover there were some org changes I wanted to implement before announcing. Drumroll…
I’ve got a new job at Yahoo!: VP of Product […]

Back from London

I was just in London for the Content 2.0 conference. I really enjoyed it, especially Marc Canter’s opening keynote. (Went out to dinner with Marc too.) Managed to grab dinner the previous night with the TechDev UK gang (Tom, Simon and Paul), and check in on some fantastic work they’ve been doing. […]

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