Jeremy Zawodny's blogRandom thoughts on technology, aviation, and life in general...Death of the $100 Hamburger- May 30, 2008 With aviation fuel (avgas or 100LL as we like to call it) climbing over $5.50gallon in many areas (see 100LL.com for current prices), it's clear that the famed $100 Hamburger is rapidly vanishing from aviation. If you're not familiar with the concept, Wikipedia explains it well: A $100 Hamburger is aviation slang for a private general aviation flight for the sole purpose of dining at a non-local airport. Most often used by pilots who are looking for any excuse to...http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/010315.html Yahoo! Developer Network Hiring a Technical Evangelist- May 28, 2008 If you happen to know someone who'd be interesting in joining the evangelism team on the Yahoo! Developer Network, please let me know. The full job listing is here. To that, I'll add a few points of interest. you get to attend and speak at numerous industry conferences you can appear on YDN Theater as much as you'd like you will work with a cool team you get to be on the forefront of stuff like YOS (see: this video...http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/010292.html Tim O'Reilly on Search- May 25, 2008 Tim O'Reilly gives the following advice about Search... So, my advice to Yahoo!: continue with your plan to outsource search to Google, just like you did before 2002, and plow those increased profits and reduced costs into your own innovation, strengthening the areas where you are 1, exploring new ideas that will make YOUR users insanely happy, and generally focusing on what makes Yahoo! great, rather than on what doesn't. That is, unless Microsoft makes you so good a deal...http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/010291.html BlackBerry Curve Impressions- May 23, 2008 Yesterday my wife inherited my trusty old Motorola V710 cell phone after hers vanished. I took advantage of some credit I had, plus a pair of aggressive rebates from Verizon Wireless to get a Blackberry Curve at a very good price. I'll preface this by saying that I've never owned a "smart" phone before and wasn't sure what I was getting into. But so far I'm pretty happy. Having access to some of my favorite on-line apps (in mobile form)...http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/010289.html Good Food, Eating, and Diet Advice Talk by Michael Pollan- May 13, 2008 I've been a fan of Michael Pollan's work for some time now, so I was quite happy to run across a video of a recent talk he gave at Google in which he discusses the current understanding of food and nutrition as well as what's wrong with our "system" today. Even if his name doesn't ring a bell, you may have heard of some of his books: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History...http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/010274.html Monkeying with Search- May 12, 2008 A few weeks ago, at the Web 2.0 Expo, Matt Cutts dropped by the Yahoo! booth and we got to chatting a bit. He mentioned being impressed by Yahoo's willingness to monkey with our search results page--meaning Search Monkey, the tool that allows site owners (like me) and developers (like me) to, for lack of a better term, pimp their result. I haven't had a chance to write up anything about Search Monkey yet, but luckily Rasmus dove in...http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/010269.html Why is it hard to work with big public companies- May 7, 2008 People often ask questions like that. And from the inside it's clear that things aren't as easy as we wished they'd be. But I've never thought long enough about the issue to figure it out for myself, let alone try to explain it to others. Luckily Greg Cohn has. Here's just a bit of what he says in Doing Business with the Semi-Permeable Corporation: Todays environment is transparent, open, and conversational - meaning almost anyone can get to anyone and...http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/010221.html Web Developer Needed- May 6, 2008 The Yahoo! Developer Network (otherwise known as "YDN", also known as "where I work") is looking for a skilled webdev to work full-time at Yahoo! HQ in Sunnyvale, California. Here's a bit of the boilerplate about the job. I've left out the "who is yahoo" stuff, since I assume your know what Yahoo is if you managed to work the Internet long enough to find this. :-) The ideal candidate will have a strong command of JavaScript 1.0-1.5, DHTML,...http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/010220.html |