Tech for Red State Moms. I’m going to get killed at work for actually saying that. It’s been a mantra around the office for too long, but it’s true. We’ve launched Yahoo! Tech and I couldn’t be more proud.
When I was interviewed for a job at Yahoo! six months ago, I was asked about my preference of projects. Would I like to work in Santa Monica for News or for this new project about making tech easy for the average person. “Yes!” Pahleeease… like I would have said no to either of them?
However, I wanted to work on whichever would be the most challenging. Tech certainly filled that requirement.
I pictured Tech as a mix between Cnet and Netflix. A place where you could get the information you needed, but also feel like it was personlized just for you. I think we’ve done just that.
Yahoo! Tech is full of great information, specifications, price comparisons, and everything else you’d ask for in a tech site. But it’s also got personality, something you don’t always hear in conjunction with Yahoo! sites. We get a kick out of reading user’s questions, especially when they get a bit risque. The ability to save products, share them, and compare them with a few clicks makes shopping so much easier. One of the last features we added was content from Dummies and McGraw-Hill. It’s great to be on a page looking at digital cameras and see an article about removing red-eye.
So take some time and enjoy Yahoo! Tech. I know I will. It’s been a long 6 months with many, many 70-80 hour work weeks. Now I’ve got a computer filled with recordings of Top Chef, Flavor of Love, and other horrible television shows to catch up on.
Keep an eye on www.last-child.com, my CSS/Web design site for some articles about what’s behind the code in Tech.
The coverage is starting to appear. Here’s what Forbes has to say about Yahoo! Tech.
Thanks for all your work, Ted.
thanks for going all mom on me so that I would call Irvin back. It has been a pleasure working with you on this project!!
The site is a great sign of things to come, and I’m especially excited by the awesome job you guys did executing… it’s definitely the most complicated, *correct* site at Yahoo, a trend I hope will continue!
Keep a good job up!