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Still sore

I went with coworkers to Sky High Sports in Santa Clara for a team offsite. It’s a great trampoline place where you can play dodgeball or jump into a foam pit. Jumping around is really tiring and on Sunday, I’m still sore from all the activity. I wonder if some of my older colleagues are [...]

Review of the Day on Yelp!

March 12, 2008 will go down in history as the day Reid Yokoyama made Review of the Day on Yelp. Never mind that it was only for Palo Alto, where it seems nobody writes reviews (since this review was posted on 2/2/08) and that it was about Anthropologie, which is a women’s boutique. Regardless, here’s [...]

Analysis of “The Wisdom of the Chaperones” with Digg and Wikipedia

An article from Slate caught my eye today. So before you read this blog post, make sure you do your homework and read “The Wisdom of the Chaperones: Digg, Wikipedia, and the myth of Web 2.0 Democracy” Did you read it? Good. I agree with the initial facts of the article, but not the author’s [...]

The end of me

I just signed up for Yelp. reidy.yelp.com/ It’s highly addictive. This will be the end of me.

Why the internet is so dangerous (or awesome)

I won’t go into specifics, for fear of reprisal from co-workers, but I want to remind us all that anything you say or write can end up on the internet and if you don’t control the content, will stay there forever. Old blogs, random comments or forum posts, can all come back to be embarrassing [...]