Archive for the 'Working in the Valley' Category

South by Southwest 2007 Interactive

Monday, March 12th, 2007

I came to South by Southwest 2007/Interactive, not knowing what to expect.  The only information I had was that there were good parties at night.  So I was pleasantly surprised when I can honestly say that I learned a thing or two about web design, as well as the story behind Lonelygirl15 from its creators, […]

Usability Testing Today

Monday, November 13th, 2006

We’re in 2 day usability testing for http://www.mythings.com.  We’re finding out a lot about what works and doesn’t work with our site.  We’re using a 3rd party tester called www.testkitchens.com  What’s really been great about working with Test Kitchens is the quality of their test subject recruits.  They personally phone interview recruits for “how articulate they […]

First day at MyThings (Israel)

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

Last time I changed jobs (from Plumtree to Yahoo!), I swore I would take at least a week off between jobs.  So what do I do this time? I quit my old job at Yahoo! Answers on Friday, and I started my new job on Saturday. On Saturday, I jumped on a plane to Tel […]

Last Day at Yahoo!

Saturday, October 21st, 2006

Yesterday was my last day at Yahoo!, and at Yahoo! Answers.  It was the usual last day at work with the cube cleaning, deleting personal files from the harddrive, a farewell lunch, bequeathing accumulated swag and memorabila to colleagues and a happy hour with silly balloon hats.  This morning when I woke up and saw […]

Caterina’s Golden Rules of blog writing

Thursday, October 19th, 2006

which I haven’t been following at all.  Caterina of Flickr fame told me, before she became Newsweek-cover famous, these  golden rules:
1) Write short entries (all my entries are 500 words or more)
2) Blog often (I have 3-6 month gaps)
3) Suckup to popular bloggers and beg for their links
 Anyway - maybe I’ll try that now.  So here […]