Monthly Archives: November 2005

Yahoo! Maps Redux

Posted by chad on November 3, 2005 2 comments

Yahoo! has done it again! There is great competition between them and Google these days. I tend to believe Yahoo! is winning.

Now you are right to think Google is the one pushing the envelope by coming out with fancy services like Google Maps and GMail which top what Yahoo! had in place for years. Which is exactly what needed to happen to get Yahoo! fired up again. They continue to answer what ever Google puts out and tend to do it in a big way.

Now it’s not that Yahoo! has better developers than Google, that line of thought is ridiculous. Both have some of the brightest engineers in the valley at their disposal. The big advantage is Yahoo! has really come to the understanding that time needs to be taken up front to get the user experience just right!

The new Maps services is just another great example.

Update: TechCrunch has a pretty good review.

Vegas Weekend…

Posted by chad on November 2, 2005 3 comments

I’m headed off to Vegas this weekend with my buddy JRo, aka John Rogers. He’s a bit of a character who insists that everyone calls him Chanco. I’ve never got the exact explanation for this, but for some reason I refuse to follow the trend and have instead nicknamed him JRo. Yes, Ms Lopez was going by something very similar at the time…

Anyway, I rented Owning Mahowny thinking this would gear me up for the trip. I will say it was a great movie, but after watching that I no longer want to gamble. This guy had some serious issues!

Of course we all know once I walk into that casino, breathe in the fresh pumped oxygen, and hear the sweet bells of slot machines filling my ears, the unwillingness of handing over my hard earned money will all drift away! But, you can bet your ass if I’m up $9M at the black jack table I’m walking away!