(Mountain View, CA) – Having just received his personal laptop from the One Laptop Per Child program’s Give One, Get One program, Micah Laaker did what he does with any Web-connected device he can get this hands on: he loaded Laaker.com. Laaker.com on OLPC Laptop, originally uploaded by mlaaker. “I know the first thing most […]

I picked up an Apple TV tonight. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the foresight to also pick up an HDMI cable. (Posted from Twitter.)

I’m excited that Black Sheep, the zombie sheep movie, is a real movie. Looking forward to watching this week, after thinking it was a joke. (Posted from Twitter.)

Mr. Laaker is testing Twitter integration. (Posted from Twitter.)

Mr. Laaker is integrating Twitter into his site.

Yesterday saw the release of Digital Arts magazine’s December issue, whose cover story featured 14 designers politicking about design trends for 2008. I was able to bring a little color to the subject around distributed experiences, whether those be widget-based or more akin to Facebook’s apps model. The Future Design 2008 article spans a number […]

In light of tomorrow being 2007’s Black Friday, here’s my deal-of-the-day for Mac users. Tomorrow, November 23rd, 2007, go to Amazon.com and buy the Microsoft Office 2004 Student/Teacher edition for $125 with free shipping. Then, do two things: 1. Get a $100 rebate right away for buying on this particular day. 2. Fill out the […]

I’m a big fan of user library software. I bought a license to Delicious Library as soon as it came out, and then undertook a process of hacking a number of CueCats to assist in scanning my book, CD, DVD, and game library. Once I began that quest, though, it struck me as odd that […]

(Mountain View) – Laaker.com today officially announced its 2007 4th quarter numbers to the street. Beating the analysts estimates of another flat year in terms of growth and shipping products, the site launched its biggest product to-date. Speaking to investors, Micah Laaker stated: “One year ago, rumors were fluttering around, and people were asking about […]

I recently attempted to install the Adobe AIR SDK on my MacBook Pro so that I could compile AIR applications. While Adobe’s done some great work at developing and exposing their tools early to the public, I could not find a set of instructions that resulted in a working installation. Luckily, Yahoo! Developer Network co-worker […]

(Mountain View, CA) 7-Eleven spokeswoman Margaret Chabris recently (and astutely) stated: “We’ve done research, and research shows us that our customers like… movies, so we’re getting involved with some major studios on some of their properties this summer.” (This was covered, amongst others, in the venerable Convenience Store News… one of Mr. Laaker’s many, many […]

Tom Coates recently announced the news I’d been dying to share: Yahoo! will be hosting an open Hack Day in London this June. We have all the official information up on the Yahoo! Developer Network blog, as well as the official open Hack Day site. And, as with last year’s event here in Sunnyvale, this […]

A recent poll found 62% of Americans feel that the US action preventing the genocide in Darfur should be among our top foreign policy objectives. That’s more decisive public opinion than we have surrounding the next steps surrounding Iraq and Afghanistan, Venezuela, and Israel and Palestine. Yet we as a country and as individuals continue […]

One of the great benefits of working at Yahoo! is participating with a diverse pool of colleagues in our quarterly Hack Day competitions. Google has its weekly “20% time,” where individuals go off and build whatever they’d like; Yahoo! takes a less time-intensive, but fundamentally different, approach which really resonates with me: Every 3 months, […]

The other night, Bryce Glass publicly made me aware of two major mistakes I made, each dutifully documented on his site. First, I misspelled the name of Ohio’s great citadel, Cincinnati, with the word “cincinatti.” Second (and most importantly), I mis-tagged Bryce with such a label when (in actuality) he lives in Columbus. Now, I […]