little. yellow. different. A weblog by Ernie Hsiung

the eagle as landed, i repeat, the eagle has landed

Yahoo 360° - the project I’ve been working on for the past six months - is live, in beta. You can view my 360° profile and blog as well.
And now, a mini-faq:

So, uhm, does that mean you’re going to be ditching LYD for Yahoo! 360?
No. LYD will still be a place for general [...]

this is not a blog post about decentralized social networks

This weekend, after weeks of working late nights, I went to the Lone Star, a bear bar in San Francisco. For those not familiar with gay bear subculture, it’s, for the most part, a bunch of older guys with goatees and beards wearing flannel and urinating on each other. Admittedly, there’s some exaggeration [...]

the assassins get outed

The project I jokingly referred to as Yahoo! Assasins in various posts on this weblog has been, well, outed - indeed, the project I’ve been working on has been Yahoo! 360°. Here’s the press release.
For those of you who attended the SXSW Conference this past couple of days and have heard me refer to [...]

yachtsmen

Our family was the type to recycle calendars. We’d buy twelve, no, sixteen month calendars (more economical) and after the year and a half elapsed, I remember my father cutting the pictures and putting them in discount 8 x 11 frames as artwork. One year in particular had sailboats. Nothing spectacular, just [...]