Valleywag just wrote about something that’s been bothering me for a few weeks now. http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url= http%3A%2F%2Fwww.smellypoop.com%2Fpoop.html&ei=7xAM R62WC5mIhAPn3I0w&usg=AFQjCNFsw83KR3JmGnnBi_n89GtI dgWgFw&sig2=Th-qrd3nEEx_368yjwK7cA Google has stopped linking directly to sites in their main search results and is instead passing each url through a really long, gnarly redirect. This is something Yahoo! has been doing for a long time and it’s [...]

It’s the metadata, stupid.

In February, I made the tough decision to leave the incredible Yahoo! Answers team and dive full time into a venture of my own. That venture is a new site called Feed Each Other (feedeachother.com). Today, the invite only beta period is over and the site has been opened up to the public. (That means [...]

Some advice and observations from the past couple of months. It’s all fun and games until the lawyers get involved. Don’t pick movies with subtitles. They’re really hard to watch while you work. No matter how insignificant a feature seems at the time, someone will quickly complain about it if it’s not done right. When [...]

I was reading The Sports Guy’s latest mailbag today and he had this to say about why the big TV networks keep putting up bad NFL programming: You know how everyone always wonders why networks make so many bad decisions and ignore common sense so often? Well, the problem is every network has too many [...]