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On Yahoo! and Media

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When I started at Yahoo! in 2000, the company still had its first CEO and only around 1,200 employees. When I left, the company had approx. 12,000 employees and was on its third chief executive. During that seven years, the company bought forward thinking sites like flickr and delicious, ended up NOT completing [...]

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Presentation to News Interns

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Just gave this presentation to our news interns… they asked good questions, and I hope they found it helpful.
-Jason
Lessons Learned
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Not How You Start

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17th Hole, Quail Hollow
Pulling into the (wrong) parking lot, I was already nervous. I, like one of our playing partners Chris, have no problem speaking to a thousand people. But I’d never hit a golf ball in front of a real gallery, and certainly I’d never been introduced to do so.
As I chatted [...]

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Finalist for EPpy

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From Editor & Publisher, this year’s nominees for Best Website with over 1 million unique users per month:

The Charlotte Observer, charlotteobserver.com
The Globe and Mail, globeandmail.com
The Wall Street Journal Online, WSJ.com

Winners announced May 7, and I’m working on being there in person.
Our team feels a lot of things… mostly thankful and excited to be in such [...]

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Post Twitter Feeds Back to Twitter

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One of the more conversational topics on twitter is whether an account should be populated only by feeds. We’re not going to discuss those reasons here, but what we will do is show you one good use of using feeds to create a parent-child account relationship that brings additional content into your master account.
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Wow, It Has Been a Month

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Been longer than anticipated for blog updates, but there’s good reason. We’ve been doing a lot, and there’s more coming:

released thatsracin.com v3, which will very soon lead to 3.1. That release will include even more user-driven feedback and requested changes and will drop in early April.
released an entirely new Classified engine, eliminating [...]

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Project vs. Product Management

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More often lately, I see the word “project” and “product” management used interchangeably when describing a function within an organization.
These roles are very different.
The easier way to remember this is to look at the words and their true definitions. A project is an undertaking that has a beginning, an end, and tasks that get [...]

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Personal Productivity - iPhone Apps

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This must be the week of productivity for the iPhone. I’ve been asked several times this week for list of iPhone productivity apps I use, most recently in a comment I made in response to an only slightly-related thread.
So before we get back to product stuff — which I have a post coming soon [...]

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