Wayne Pan

The YUI 2nd Birthday was a dud except for the free shirts, free food, free beer, oh and something about YUI 3.0. The vision plan they have for 3.0 is faster, lighter, more secure, more modular.The front of the shirt is above but the back of the shirt has the quote “This is Yahoo!” and I agree.

Yahoo! has done wonders in terms of front-end engineering with YUI, Design Patterns, YSlow, Juku, and even hiring someone full time for firebug. They are bringing much needed attention web dev and the continued promotion of javascript as a first class language.

On a side note, when I read the “This is Yahoo!” slogan I imagined Jerry Yang kicking Balmer into an endless pit and yelling “THIS IS YAHOO!” 300 style.

I read that Microsoft’s online storage solution Skydrive was just upped to 5gb. I haven’t tried Live so I tried to register as a new user, what did I get?At first, I figured they were getting bombarded with new sign ups and I thought it was odd. On a whim, I opened up FireFox and lo-and-behold, the sign up page finally showed up.I tried again with Safari and I received the same error page! I can’t believe Microsoft is still pulling this shit. Maybe I’m wrong, if you’re on Safari let me know if you can sign up using this page.

Let’s take a look at the recent headlines, all garbage. Nothing to do with actual tech!

• Steve Jobs isn’t in Apple’s Facebook network — but his wife is
• Gene Simmons sex tape leaked on Web (NSFW)
• Sergey Brin’s weird wedding ring
• Sex parties in the Valley — how do I get invited?
• Become her sugar daddy in 3 easy steps
• Googlers getting laid way more than Microsoft, Yahoo
• Viagra ruining everything for Valley’s mistresses

Yes, I know VW is a gossip rag, but at least a year ago there was some semi-relevant content. I’m going to have to blame Denton’s new pay scheme which pays the writers on number of pageviews a story gets. The greatest draw? SEX. Right now it’s a free for all for who can come up with the story with the most sex. Sad.Deleted from my bloglines and deleted from my bookmarks. It looks like the only decent now a days is Gawker Media site to read it Kotaku.

If you haven’t started watching Start-Up Junkies on MojoHD, you should. (Catch the latest episodes here.).

This season is about the new start-up Earth Class Mail, a company that intends to put your snail mail and online. The show highlights the troubles of building a start-up and in this case a start-up with a lot of capital expenditures. These guys have to figure out a way manage millions of physical items, not just build a kick ass website.

Who would’ve guess? Now I have no doubt that my prediction will come true. Just a matter of which of Yahoo!’s properties bites the dust first.