Tag Archive for 'yahoo'

Microsoft: REJECTED!

Published
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Josh Kim
on February 9, 2008
in Web Applications
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$31 per share offer “massively undervalues” Yahoo: Yahoo Board to Reject Microsoft Bid

Yahoo! blahblah Microsoft blahblah

Published
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Josh Kim
on February 1, 2008
in Web Applications
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The rumors existed for years now, and this morning, it happened. But because the entirety of the Internetz is covering this story, I waited until there was a more opinionated voice of reason.

The New Yahoo: Smartly Optimized for a Microsoft Takeover

Great article. Brings up a lot of points I would have if I sat down and thought it through.

Microsoft owns part of Facebook, runs advertising on Digg and may soon own Delicious & Flickr. Web 2.0 is over.

Very interesting.

Who needs TV when you’ve got real life drama all up in hurr?

Week in Review + Today’s Yahoo & OpenID News

Published
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Josh Kim
on January 17, 2008
in Web Applications
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This week… keeps on surprising me. So, in review:

  • Monday: Zuckerborg’s boring and awkward “60 Minutes” reactions
  • Tuesday: Macworld: MacBook Air and et cetera
  • Wednesday: MySQL for $1 Billion by Sun, BEA for $8.5 billion by Oracle

And today:

The Obligatory OpenID logo

I guess I should start an OpenID related post with an OpenID logo… like every single other freaking tech blog…

I guess Yahoo! is in. OpenID has been one of those lovely ideas that’s been taking quite a while to take off. Maybe one year from now, this poll from Mashable will change dramatically:

Mashable's Poll on the Usage of OpenID

I selected Never. I’m willing to be a lot of the web applications I use already implement OpenID, and yet I never ever seem to actually need it. I wonder what the killer application is going to be for OpenID, because the way things are now doesn’t really bother the 95% of the Internet users just yet.

So many of these great ideas… sometimes never seem to take off. We’ll see if the Semantic Web will be as awesome it is going to be, with applications like shift-space.

IMAP on Google: Took Them Long Enough…

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Josh Kim
on November 1, 2007
in Web Applications
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I guess Google thought I wasn’t cool enough, because starting last week, Gmail had been phasing in IMAP. But today, they’ve finally announced the darn thing for everyone.

Seriously. Took them long enough! I guess it wasn’t ranked high on the list of priorities at Google, seeing how iPhone users are like one in a million (and yes, I know there are non-iPhone users who would be interested in IMAP… but I’m sure the push for it had to do something with it). But still, I trusted Google to step it up and to bring their A game. I didn’t want to create some kind of kludge forwarding system to Yahoo! and have to deal with other accounts.

Huzzah.

Nothing to See Here: Just a Tired Man

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Josh Kim
on June 8, 2007
in Personal
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I’ve been dying to put something up here. Something eloquent. Something earth-shattering. I mean, if it took this kid like a month to post something, it’s bound to be nuggets of diamond-encrusted platinum, right?

But I come before you, a humble man: I’ve got really nothing to say. And since I’ve got nothing to say (at least… I’m not lying to you), I think this is the best time to return to the “blogosphere”.

I’m not trying to come up with excuses as to why this blog has been just wasting away (no… it’s not WoW or Ruby or other life changing… events…), but I think it’s good to kinda throw out some possibilities as to why this might have happened.

I think it’s safe to say this: I was slapped on the wrist for violating an NDA with Yahoo! during the interview process. I’m still not 100% sure what I did to break it (I’m about 90% sure). Whatever it was, I think it was settled. I complied and removed the offending posts. I really should have requested a hard copy of that NDA… but I really don’t care too much about Yahoo! at this point. A recent article on Ars Technica covered a story on something like this.

At least I didn’t pull a “Josh Kim” after getting a job. Whew.

Anyway, all that insanity made me question something about this blog: Who am I writing for? Yes, it is indeed, partially for me… but what about everyone else?

I just haven’t really realized how public my blog is. I mean… it’s just as easy to get to my site as it is to get to facebook or google. This is the beauty of the Internet, and one of the many reasons why I got into web development in the first place. (However, seeing how Dreamhost has been acting up in the last couple of weeks… I’m considering switching hosts.)

So what is to become of JoshKim.org?

I think I’m going to keep it just as open as before… but with more sobriety (and no drinking jokes here, please). I think I just need to keep straight that this blog, while frequent most by the loyalist of fans (i.e., friends I know in real life), can and will be visited by people I’ve never met before. (That “How to Hack Xanga, Kinda” is one of the few examples as to why this statement is… so very true.)

In general, I need to start posting less personal posts. I have a lot of “Lessons Learned” posts, but I need to make sure those are just vague enough so that the people that were involved in the incident would know, and only those people.

Link blog? I think I should start it up someday… I have too many links to share with the world. I should at least start with my starred items in Google Reader.

Ruby. Rails. I’ve started going through the books. And methodically, might I add. I forgot how much I learn by doing. I also forgot how much I love to learn by doing. Yikes.

Purpose. Without purpose… why even do it? Follow the examples…

Why do all my posts end up with some kind of universal life lesson? Oh, right. Metacognition.

Ugh.

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