En Mémoire de Mon Père Jean Louis Travers (1947-2020)
Mon père Jean Louis Travers est décédé hier, apparemment dans son sommeil et sans doute d’une crise cardiaque étant donnés ses antécédents. Je redoutais ce moment en raison de sa… Read more »
Category: people
Publishers Contributing to Open Source Projects, Maintaining APIs
I’ve put together lists of teams and people working at the intersection of news publishing, data, visualization, and online/mobile/software development to get a better sense of who talks the talk and… Read more »
eBay Evangelist Converts to Yahoo
AuctionBytes: "Senior Manager of Platform Evangelism (developer relations) at eBay, Jeffrey McManus, is leaving the auction site. He’s headed to Yahoo as Director of Product Management working with new developer… Read more »
Technorati, Socialtext Raise Financing
Socialtext Closes Series A Financing Technorati gets fed VC dollars Joi Ito is an investor in both, as well as in Six Apart. Loic le Meur and Reid Hoffman (of… Read more »
Erik Benson, Brad Choate on the Move
Erik leaves Amazon.com (but doesn’t tell where to go/what to do) and Brad joins Six Apart to work on PHP dynamic rendering in MT 3.1, a welcome development I and… Read more »
BEA’s Bosworth decamps to Google
We learn from CNet that Adam Bosworth will now work at Google, though was he will do there the article doesn’t tell. If he’s been hired to work along similar… Read more »
Microsoft commercial-search chief departs
CNet: "Paul Ryan, the former chief technology officer at Overture Services, was hired at MSN on Oct. 20, 2003, just weeks after Yahoo finalized its $1.63 billion acquisition of the… Read more »
Search at Microsoft: Build or Buy?
InternetNews: Microsoft Ga-Ga Over Google? Microsoft (or Yahoo) should have bought Google two years ago. Now I’m not sure the price is going to be right. What’s more interesting in… Read more »
2004 US Presidential Tickets
Andrew Sullivan: Dream-Tickets: Dean-Clark vs. Bush-Rice? "It would also make for a fascinating race: Dean-Clark versus Bush-Rice. An evenly matched contest of argument, culture, and personality. You may say I’m… Read more »
In Bed with Madonna
NYT: Europe’s Antipiracy Proposal Draws Criticism "One of the world’s largest record companies is owned by Vivendi Universal, a French conglomerate whose chief executive is Ms. Fourtou‘s husband, Jean-Ren