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Support your favorite pirate today! Yeah, it’s on the 19th this year, but I like to party like a pirate a little early. Never heard of Talk Like a Pirate Day? Only cool people do it, so if you aren’t doing it… Well, you already know you’re ‘that’ guy.  Sad… Anyhoo!  Javascript insert created by [...]

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Robyn Tippins at ConvergeSC

by Robyn Tippins on September 14, 2009

Marketing Socially: Robyn Tippins from Converge SC on Vimeo. FYI, the very first of my talk is cut off, but what you miss is my telling you that I started a diaper company in 1998, at age 22, and in month one, using forums to market it, we grossed ~$30k. The video picks up there.

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At BlogWorld Expo, I was interviewed by Network Solutions to answer a few questions that their customers might have. There are a serious of almost a dozen videos up now, with some major big names in social media, but with my ego being monstrous, I’ve only linked to the ones I’m in The whole series [...]

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Open Yahoo! – Hackday 2008

by Robyn Tippins on September 12, 2008

It’s always nice to be around a throng of smart people, but when those people are developers and those developers are crazy creative and ready to hack, it makes your day even better. Hackday 08 has finally arrived! Since Web 2.0 Expo, a few trickles of information has been coming out about what we’re planning, [...]

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Open HackDay At Yahoo!

by Robyn Tippins on August 27, 2008

This is one of those things that you don’t want to miss. It’s limited to a few hundred developers and priority is being given to those devs who are hacking. Please request an invite here and add your name to Upcoming if you want to attend. We’ll be sending out invites shortly so act fast.

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Tilly and I set up a wiki over the weekend (thanks to a HUGE load of help from Wetpaint) and the barebones of our Community Managers group is up and running now. Community Managers Wiki I love working with CMs because they are motivated!  I sent out the invites around 11am and by 2pm, all [...]

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Yahoo! Developer Network – Interns! from mattt on Vimeo.

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I hate Vista. Seriously. After hours of trying to get the damn thing to install on more than 3 PCs, running the beta for 6 months and then running the OS from Jan 07 to May 07, I hate this OS. Leopard had me at hello, but Vista pissed me off within hours… If you [...]

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Yahoo Offers Up OpenID

by Robyn Tippins on January 17, 2008

Via TC: But the real news comes today, as Yahoo and its roughly 250 million user IDs officially jump on the bandwagon. Today, there are only approximately 120 million valid OpenID accounts. In one move, Yahoo more than triples that number. I found out about this in late Dec, but couldn’t say anything. I was [...]

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New Zimbra Book

by Robyn Tippins on December 2, 2007

For those of you who have fallen in love with Zimbra, or just want to know more, you may want to check out this book from Packt Publishing. They sent me a copy to review a month ago and it’s jam-packed with all kinds of nerdy goodness. For someone that just wants to find out [...]

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