Open Hack Day, UK
Beck at Yahoo! Open Hack Day by Laughing Squid / Scott Beale
Last October, Yahoo! held an Open Hack Day where we brought in developers and designers in the Bay Area to work on whatever they wanted to, and invited them to utilize Yahoo! APIs to make cool hacks … and that’s what people did. From [...]
The Kind of Place I’d Work At
Back when I worked at Trilogy in Austin, it was during the first dot com boom. Trilogy did a lot of things typical to the era: free kitchens with snack bars and soda, open bar parties, keg parties on Friday afternoons and ridiculous company paid trips to Vegas and even the Bahamas.
One thing they did [...]
The Pipes Team Shout Out
I tagged a bunch of people in my last post but I wanted to do a proper shout out because the talent is really phenomenal and worth talking about in more detail. The Pipes team started in September with four people:
Pasha Sadri: the man with the idea, who also came up [...]
Rewire the Web
The project I’ve been deep into for the past few months, Pipes, has finally launched! I worked with an awesome group of people to put this out and we did it in an amazingly short time. I only joined the team in November and they started work on it in September. I do think of [...]
Flickr Old Skoolers Having a Fit: A Response From a Yahoo
Disclaimer: I work at Yahoo!, but not on Flickr. These are simply opinions of mine.
Three things happened in quick succession this past week:
Flickr limited number of tags to 75 and number of contacts to 3,000 They also announced a date when the users who aren’t using Yahoo! accounts would have to merge their accounts with a [...]
Handwaving Hack on the Wii
About a month ago, Yahoo! had our quarterly internal Hack Day. Now that I work in the group that organizes Hack Day, I felt compelled to contribute a hack. For those that don’t know, Hack Day is when Yahoos spend 24hrs (or a portion thereof) to build some pet projects, typically utilizing Yahoo! APIs. The [...]
For the Chinese in You
Late last year, Yahoo! gave out jackets for their annual gift. Even though the jackets weren’t exactly stylin’, everyone still lines up for it because - it’s free. Ernie pointed out that it’s especially bad if you’re Chinese. It’s genetically implanted in us to go for the free stuff, even if we really don’t give [...]
Yahoo! Maps Launches
As some of you know, I work on the Yahoo! Maps and Local team. Though the things I work on aren’t really in this release, I’m still very proud to point people to the new Yahoo! Maps Beta as well as the kickass mashups at the application gallery.
The first thing you’ll notice is that it’s [...]
Best Of Yahoo! Launch
Last week, Yahoo! Local launched a new version which seemed to garner a lot of positive press. I’m on the team but I joined to late to contribute to this release. I’m very impressed with it, though. If you live in North America, go try it out. It’s like Citysearch but driven by the user [...]
Ya, Who?
Today marks the first day as a salaried employee since September 2003. Between that time I’ve been a student, writer, artist, entrepreneur, contractor, bum, gamer, and many permutations of those titles.
Getting here meant another adventure through INS to get my TN-1 visa which I naturally dreaded given previous experiences. Since I so readily write about [...]
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Kevin Cheng is a global nomad who's settled in San Francisco after calling Vancouver, Hong Kong, Austin and London his homes. Founder of Off Panel Productions and OK/Cancel. Director of Product Strategy at Raptr, a social network for gamers, and former designer of Pipes and Bravonation at Yahoo!. Presenter on numerous design subjects. Reachable at kc -at- this domain.
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