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				<title><![CDATA[On leaving Yahoo!]]></title>
				<link>http://www.seldo.com/weblog/2010/02/19/on_leaving_yahoo</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Today is my last day at Yahoo!. It's been four years -- more than twice as long as I've held any other job.

I remember very clearly, when I was fifteen and had had Internet access for only a few weeks, building my first web page and thinking "wow! This is fun! I wish I could get a job doing this!" Then I tried to think of big, web companies I'd really want to work for, and the first one was Yahoo!. "But they've already built their website", I thought to myself, "They don't need another web developer. Plus, I don't know Perl."

So nine years later, when Yahoo! contacted me and offered me a job in the London office, it was a dream come true. I sent excited emails to friends and family, I printed out a huge "I WORK FOR YAHOO" banner above my desk at home (in a stolen copy of the Yahoo! font). I know it sounds terribly cheesy, but I really did.

Joining Yahoo! was amazing. We're so *big*! We have our own fork of Apache, our own version of PHP, dozens and dozens of our own specialized products and plugins (I...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:58:37 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[A new adventure]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday, I informed my managers at Yahoo! that I will be leaving the company. I have a lot of thoughts about leaving Yahoo!, and I'm going to assemble them into another post later. For now I want to talk about the new gig.

A while back, Jonathan invited me out to dinner. We'd worked together for a year on the dream team that was Yahoo! Widgets before it got mothballed, and he wanted to talk about some ideas he had around entertainment, social media and the Internet.

In a way that is characteristic of him, he started speaking fluently, passionately, and with all the focus of a terminal ADD sufferer about friends of his who are media types who make web content. About how they use blogs, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, and sites like those -- what he collectively termed "social media", a buzzwordy phrase, but usefully short.

Mostly, content creators use social media haphazardly at best. Not because they're dumb, but because there are so many sites for them to use, each with different use-cases and...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:48:11 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Google Buzz]]></title>
				<link>http://www.seldo.com/weblog/2010/02/10/google_buzz</link>
				<description><![CDATA[I have written a mini-review of Google Buzz over on Flickr, should you wish to check it out.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:17:35 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Corporations are not people, and should not be]]></title>
				<link>http://www.seldo.com/weblog/2010/01/22/corporations_are_not_people_and_should_not_be</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The US supreme court, in a split decision, has ruled that corporations are people, free to spend on political campaign advertising as a form of free speech. This is a terrible decision that threatens the foundation of democracy.

Corporations have different goals to people. They are about their own survival, and act in nobody's interests but their own. Customers? They're out to screw them for every cent the market will bear. Ditto suppliers. Employees? There to be used up and thrown away as soon as it's profitable to get rid of them. Executives? To be sacrificed every time the stock drops, or forced out as part of a merger or acquisition. Shareholders? Love them -- until things get tough. Then declare chapter 11, wipe them out, and find some new suckers.

By declaring corporations people, we have created a new species, parasitic upon our own, and significantly stronger. Corporations will suck us in, use us up, and spit us out, without regard for wealth or class. There will be no lucky ones: we will all be...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 12:16:43 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Obligatory iTablet speculation post]]></title>
				<link>http://www.seldo.com/weblog/2010/01/18/obligatory_itablet_speculation_post</link>
				<description><![CDATA[So the iTablet is coming, or so it seems, and everyone is reading tea-leaves, so here's my own swing:

I know this is ridiculous, but the moment I saw this invitation and this tweet from Ricky, I thought: what if the tablet isn't a device on its own? What if it is more like a Wacom tablet -- not a full device on its own, but more of a peripheral?

Imagine a device the size of a mousepad. It sits on your desk, replacing the mouse itself. It syncs to your mac, and displays a picture of the screen itself -- or a portion of the screen. It acts like a touch screen, or if you want it to, a drawing tablet (it would let you "zoom in" on the drawing area, like Mobile Safari does). In addition to ordinary clicks, you'd be able to use a variety of gestures to simplify various tasks. Applications that were compatible with the device could send dedicated UI to the tablet itself, giving you a range of buttons and tools within a fingertip's reach -- this would be pretty useful in Photoshop, for instance, but other apps as...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:23:30 -0600</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Seldo</dc:creator>
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				<title><![CDATA[Wells Fargo are running a "free credit report" scam]]></title>
				<link>http://www.seldo.com/weblog/2010/01/16/wells_fargo_are_running_a_free_credit_report_scam</link>
				<description><![CDATA[A ridiculously misleading letter from Wells Fargo is trying to scam their own customers out of $156/year under the pretect of a "free" credit report. I expect better from a reputable national bank.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 01:01:31 -0600</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Are spot instances killing the performance of Amazon EC2?]]></title>
				<link>http://www.seldo.com/weblog/2010/01/15/are_spot_instances_killing_the_performance_of_amazon_ec2</link>
				<description><![CDATA[First Alan Williamson asked if Amazon EC2 has become oversubscribed. Then Cloudkick jumped in with graphs illustrating the increased latency seen by spot instances. Amazon has denied there's any fundamental issue. But let's look at that graph:



Something struck me about the timing: the trouble all seems to kick off round the 12th of December: that's the day Amazon announced EC2 spot instances. The way spot instances work is simple: Amazon puts its spare capacity up for auction. Instead of paying a set price, you bid for an instance, and the highest bids that fill up available instances win. If more people turn up demanding instances, the price should rise.

But there's a side effect: assuming spot instances are popular, then we can assume that no matter what the price is, all of EC2 capacity is now being used. What would you expect to happen if that were the case? Well, you'd expect them to start hitting capacity limits -- which is what the ping times seem to suggest is happening.

At the moment this is...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:30:18 -0600</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Seldo</dc:creator>
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				<title><![CDATA[It's never cool to not know something]]></title>
				<link>http://www.seldo.com/weblog/2010/01/11/its_never_cool_to_not_know_something</link>
				<description><![CDATA[The details are fuzzy. I think I was about eight years old at the time. I was in the car with my mother, in Trinidad, driving from our house on the hill in Curepe towards the junction with the Eastern Main Road. We were just passing the corner where a hand-painted sign advertising "BROILERS $5.00"*. My mother had the radio tuned to the cricket. Somebody else was in the car -- I think it was my best friend at the time, Dari -- and he asked what the score was.

I'm not a fan of cricket, or indeed of any sport. Something fundamental about being a spectator to those sorts of activities escapes me. Coming from a family of sports fan, and already in possession of my gleeful contrarian streak, I quickly announced that I didn't know. In fact, I said, I didn't even understand what the scores meant -- runs and overs and wickets and things.

My mother told Dari the score, and then gave me a very mild rebuke for being so forcefully ignorant of the sport -- this was not the first time I'd done something like this. "It's...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:58:55 -0600</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Seldo</dc:creator>
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				<title><![CDATA[How to promote your website without being evil]]></title>
				<link>http://www.seldo.com/weblog/2010/01/05/how_to_promote_your_website_without_being_evil</link>
				<description><![CDATA[For web nerds, I have revived my long-defunct web development blog with a post about non-spammy website promotion that will hopefully be useful. It includes the phrase "Social Media Optimization" but other than that it is relatively free of douchebaggery.]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:18:09 -0600</pubDate>
                <dc:creator>Seldo</dc:creator>
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				<title><![CDATA[This blog in review, 2009]]></title>
				<link>http://www.seldo.com/weblog/2009/12/31/this_blog_in_review_2009</link>
				<description><![CDATA[It's been one of my lightest years for blogging, with an average of around four posts per month. A lot of my short-form output has gone instead to Twitter and my longer-form comments have generally been on Hacker News. However, there were a few things I'd call out as being worth a second glance if you missed them:


Web developers don't build websites; they develop the web
I asserted that journalism is dead, not just newspapers. I'm not sticking to this 100%: far-away, high-risk, expensive professional journalism still has value, and people will pay for it. However, the vast majority of people who currently call themselves "journalists" are going to find themselves out of work as the cost of the equipment necessary for real-time observation continues to fall. Opinion columnists and critics are out of luck.
I explained, in minute detail, why it takes me so long to have a shower.
I listed ten things that Twitter is not and said that if anything, it is "what's going on". Five months later Twitter changed their...]]></description>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:00:31 -0600</pubDate>
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