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December 30th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Life

Hello kitty

Hello Kitty turns attention to young men - Yahoo News
The cute cuddly white cat from Japans Sanrio Co., usually seen on toys and jewelry for girls and young women, will soon don T-shirts, bags, watches and other products targeting young men, company spokesman Kazuo Tohmatsu said Friday.

“We think Hello Kitty is accepted by young men as a design statement in fashion,” he said.

The feline for-men products will go on sale in Japan next month, and will be sold soon in the U.S. and other Asian nations, according to Sanrio.

The usual bubble-headed shape of Hello Kitty was slightly changed for a more rugged, cool look to appeal to men in their teens and early 20s.

For example, a picture of the cat on a $36 black T-shirt has the words, “hello kitty,” instead of the usual dots for the eyes and nose.

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MindTouch - Yahoo!

November 11th, 2007 | 2 Comments | Posted in MindTouch

Cross-post

Steve and I sat down with Jeremy Zawodny, one of Roy’s heroes, on Yahoo’s campus. MindTouch uses Yahoo! technologies extensively, we’re big fans. Specifically, we’re using YUI, CDN, Flickr API, widgets, etc…

On a personal note, I think Yahoo!, to date, has been the most adept of all the big boys in connecting and growing a Developer Network. These guys get devs and I, for one, am happy to help them evangelize their work.

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links for 2007-10-29

October 29th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Life

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MeFeed

October 15th, 2007 | 2 Comments | Posted in Life

MeFeed, by Yahoo! Pipes

This isn’t a complete MeFeed, but close enough. You get the idea. It’s a crap load of my feeds that are all Unioned to produce a MeFeed.

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Wiki panel on Usability

September 27th, 2007 | 1 Comment | Posted in MindTouch

I was in Fremont yesterday speaking on a panel hosted by the Silicon Valley Webbuilder group on wikis and usability. Jeffrey Walker, the President of of Atlassian, was there. Jeffrey has this unusual quality. I don’t know how to describe it other than the dude’s so damn like-able you just want to give him a hug. The panel moderator was LukeW. I don’t recall his last name. He’s a usability and user experience (UeX) dude who’s currently working at Yahoo!. He seemed like he might be new to wikis, but it was clear he’s a smart dude and during his, albeit a tad long, ;-) introduction to UeX he made some really good points about web forms and usability. I actually wrote down a couple things Luke said. He has a book coming out on UeX and web form design. This is his second book. I will be buying it. Like I said, smart dude. Maybe someone can post an URL to it in the comments for all of us. Bess Ho, the organizer was a trip. Very energetic, fun, and memorably dressed. She was dressed straight out of an anime, down to the sneakers. She has a fabulously original business card that she proudly declared she had designed herself. Finally, Zoli helped Bess find speakers for the event and was in attendance. Hungarians are cool. Zoli is no exception.

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links for 2007-08-27

August 27th, 2007 | No Comments | Posted in Life

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