Silicon Valley Musings

Here is a discussion between PodTech’s Dan Hendricks and Kent Brewster, Technology Evangelist at Yahoo!, that I recorded at SXSW.

Very interesting case study on YouTube’s success, YouTube Case Study: Widget marketing comes of age
Excerpts that are relevant to Widget-based embeddable video players:
Viral customer growth due to widget marketing
YouTube allowed users to easily embed any hosted videos on web pages or blogs. This turned out to be particularly popular with social-networking websites, especially MySpace. The […]

The weather has been so great the last couple of days I was just about to head down to Yamagami’s Nursery in Cupertino and buy some heirloom tomatoes to plant in the back yard.
But this great Blog, Growing Gourmet Tomatoes in the Bay Area, suggested I resist my urge for now and plant them in […]

Today was Ze Frank’s last episode of The Show.
I’m just going to start from the beginning and watch them in order, just like early summer reruns. No, can’t do it. It seems counter to what Ze was trying to do.
The last episode makes think of…
- It’s back to Jon and Stephen for a daily dose […]

Robert asks what is your default browser page.
My default Web page is set to blank.
My portal of choice is still MyYahoo. The problem with this page is that it doesn’t do a good job of letting you know when new features are available on the rest of the Yahoo property. So I occasionally need to […]