Love this company… love the new office… love what they make
Relocation from Ryan Sims on Vimeo.
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Posted: July 6th, 2008 under Design, User Experience, drob.
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Flickr says that 2,716,302 iPhone photos have been uploaded.
Here’s an interesting statistic that makes me understand the power of the iPhone… You see, the iPhone can’t really upload to Flickr without some hoop-jumping AND the camera in the iPhone isn’t that great. So that fact that it’s happening with such frequency… Well, you fill in the blanks.
Oh, and this guy used an Apple QuickTake 200. Classy!
Posted: June 23rd, 2008 under General Debauchery, Seriously?, drob.
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Seems like everyone’s got an opinion about Yahoo!. Here’s mine.
The thing about Yahoo!.
All this belly aching about Yahoo! comes from a very VOCAL minority who have opinions about Yahoo! and the industry but very few who actually know anything about Yahoo! and it’s DNA from the inside out. Even those who claim that they “know” only hear what they hear from the disgruntled, and it represents a very VOCAL minority from inside Yahoo!. A minority I might add that needs to be shown the door if they can’t find it themselves and it seems that there’s a mixture of both happening right now (good and bad) but the press likes to portray it as “abandon ship” even though that’s not the case. If it bleeds it leads still holds true I guess even if from MSM or the blogosphere.
What Yahoo! needs now is speed-of-focus and execution and what they don’t need now are any more “manifestos”. If you’re writing one, thinking about writing one or even reading one while nodding your head… you need to go. And guess what? They’re going and that’s a good thing. It’s cowardly to predict death and Yahoo! isn’t terminal in business, only in perception. I’m sure it could use and deserves a little respect as a company.
I’m bullish on Yahoo! long term. I believe, and I’m putting my money where my mouth is… I’m signing up for this fight. I start 7/1/2008.
Posted: June 20th, 2008 under General Debauchery, Seriously?, drob.
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“Context over dogma” GINA rules.
Posted: June 18th, 2008 under Design, General Debauchery, User Experience, drob.
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Good content is hard to find. Leave the dirty work to LOUD3R.
“Good content is hard to find. Leave the dirty work to LOUD3R.” That’s what the LOUD3R site claims but does it deliver? Lets check it out.
A quick Google search for LOUD3R brings up lots of results because LOUD3R runs more than 25 websites. Yes I said 25. But if you click on the “News” link from that Google search you’ll notice that it’s only got a few stories, mostly from bloggers (not that there’s anything wrong with that, some of my best friends are bloggers) and here’s why. LOUD3R just launched today but it’s hard to tell. Usually you have all sorts of craziness that happens when a startup comes out of the gate but the LOUD3R network of sites have a fit & finish on them that makes me feel like they a) work, b) are credible and c) are really nice.
Read the stories and you’ll hear a lot of talk about the “semantic publishing engine” which is great and (probably) all necessary and stuff but really who gives a shit. LOUD3R could be powered by kittens and I wouldn’t care as long as the sites work. Guess what? They do!
I worked with Lowell Goss (LOUD3R CEO) at Yahoo! a while back and what I like about what he’s done here is that LOUD3R is him. You see, Lowell has an opinion. He’s got an opinion about a lot of stuff and just like LOUD3R his opinions are based on what he knows and learns and not based on what he thinks he knows. And while LOUD3R doesn’t know everything you want to know the vertical site-system gives you the opportunity to learn all the rest of the stuff you want to know so that YOU TOO can have an opinion that is real and not made up… and have fun while doing it.
venture capital - http://www.found3r.com
gadgets & technology - http://www.new3r.com
internet business & technology - http://www.buzz3r.com
wine - http://www.decant3r.com
environment - http://www.glaci3r.com
fashion - http://www.glitt3r.com
gossip - http://www.sland3r.com
sneakers - http://www.sneak3r.com
men’s fashion - http://www.dapp3r.com
skateboarding - http://www.grind3r.com
Nice job LOUD3R Crew. Big fan.
Posted: June 17th, 2008 under Design, General Debauchery, User Experience, drob.
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It’s not you, it’s me.
For a while now I’ve been thinking about how good I’ve got it. I live in downtown Palo Alto with my beautiful tattooed-just-right-wife, a way too smart 2 year old girl and (t-minus 2 weeks and counting) another one on the way, I can’t wait to meet the new kid-o (my wife can’t wait even more). I couldn’t ask for more and I don’t… but someone offered me more and I took it. More in the sense of “that’s what I want to” do kind of thing and in a “I’d be proud to do it with you” kind of way.
So. Since the cat is starting to come out of the bag I thought I’d save it the struggle and give it a lift. I’ll be leaving my current role to take on a significantly different role starting on July 1st.
Wow. Crazy times indeed…. More to come.
D
Posted: June 16th, 2008 under drob.
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The updated Journey
I posted a story about a little girl named Journey (yes, named after the song). My sister-in-law sent an update.
“Journey has to have surgery.
Journey came over to spend some time with Emma yesterday. She was scheduled to have xrays/tests done today and she was very anxious about it. She kept saying while she was here - “Mom, I feel fine. I have been drinking water… My headaches aren’t that bad.” I could see how worried Journs was with just the thought of going back to the hospital and JKS didn’t even tell her what may have to happen. As Jim says, kids just know. The news is that she will have to have surgery but they are waiting until next week. (see below)
I thought you would want to know. Julie KS is one of the strongest women there is but I know how hard this has been on her. It makes her so sad to see her daughter, Journey go through this and as parents, I know we can all only imagine how that must feel.
Pray and as Journey says “keep your fingers crossed.” While in the hospital a few weeks ago, she made her Mom sleep with her fingers crossed. The doctor must have said that to her and when she woke up after the first night in the hospital that was the first thing she asked Julie…”Mom, are your fingers crossed???”
hug your kids tight and pray for sweet journs.
love,
m “
Posted: June 12th, 2008 under drob.
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Stevans Video: Monday’s Wedding
Monday’s Wedding from Drob on Vimeo.
Posted: June 11th, 2008 under Music.
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Clinton / Obama Ad
Posted: June 8th, 2008 under Funnies, General Debauchery, drob.
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Video: 2 Birds, 1 Whale: A Story About Twitter
Smart (ass?) clip from Darren Barefoot. It’s pretty funny.
2 Birds, 1 Whale: A Story About Twitter from Darren Barefoot on Vimeo.
Posted: June 2nd, 2008 under Design, Funnies, General Debauchery, drob.
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