Sol Young

After a pretty bad experience with Yahoo!’s merchant services security support while getting HeartsongStudios.com online, the site is finally up and running. Yahoo! does a decent job at outsourcing their support to work-at-home representatives. The one I got, Max, was nice enough.
I’m glad it’s over… Now my father’s site can start working for him.

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Most of you know I rarely go out of my way to publicly voice such a negative opinion as I’m about to issue. Especially against a company for which: a) I hold stock, and b) I believe is one of the best large companies in Silicon Valley.
Today I signed up for Yahoo! Merchant Services for [...]

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Yesterday while snagging a bagel at the VMware seminar there was something interesting on the restaurant’s TV. ESPN posed the question, “Which 23-year-old has a better life: LeBron James or Mark Zuckerberg?”
Answering the question is like answering, “what would you do if you won a million dollars?” It’s just plain fun to think about the [...]

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I was very pleased by a question in today’s press Q&A at Apple’s iPhone SDK release announcement. I posted the other day about the iPhone SDK being in development since before WWDC ‘07. The question pertained directly to my thoughts, “Why did you change your mind about the iPhone open SDK? How long will apps [...]

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Above screenshot taken from http://developer.apple.com/
The iPhone SDK was released today as predicted. Either there were errors in Apple’s push of the site updates or, more likely, developers are so hungry for this SDK that developer.apple.com is down.
I’ve been hammering on ‘Refresh’ for an hour. Could everyone please stop so I can get started on some [...]

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Cart dropped a note about long anticipated API addition at Google (so long that most people forgot about they might even still be working on it). Google now has a contact API. This is huge news because up until now only Yahoo! offered a good synchronization service.
I’ve been a Yahoo! Address Book fan for years because of [...]

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Rather than letting long must-read articles interrupt my flow, I’m using Safari and tabs to keep things organized. Lifehacker got me thinking about this with their Firefox Serial Flow article, but I find it even more efficient in Safari (and I’m on the whole WebKit thing).
I simply keep a separate window and open pages I want to review later [...]

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