Reid Burke

Internet

  • WSJ: Yahoo To Reject Microsoft

    Matthew Karnitschnig reporting for The Wall Street Journal:

    Yahoo’s board believes that Microsoft’s is trying to take advantage of the recent weakness in the company’s share price to “steal” the company. The decision to reject the offer signals that Yahoo’s board is digging in its heels for what could be a long takeover battle. The company is unlikely to consider any offer below $40 per share, the person said.

    Let’s hope Yahoo doesn’t get burned by a possible shareholder revolt. It’s a really interesting move for Yahoo and I’m anxious to see what happens.

    [via DF]

  • A Look Inside Yahoo!

    Yahoo! Building D

    The second day I was in California, my friend Dav Glass gave me a tour of the Yahoo! campus in Sunnyvale. The appearance and general vibe I received while I was there took some getting used to: everyone seemed excited to be there. They had good reason to be: they have their own beach volleyball court, live music, restaurant, game room, and I’m just scratching the surface here. Here’s a video of a “virtual tour” of Yahoo! if you’re interested:

    The next day, I met up with Matt Hackett and visited “Summer Jam ’07” for web developers, which was really cool: they had live music from Yahoo! (and Lockheed) web devs!

    Jamming

    There are many more photos from the event on Flickr. I met some really cool people there who were actually interested in web development! (Imagine that.) Plus, the music was very good.

    Matt and Reid

    I’m really glad I had the opportunity to experience Yahoo! and a big thanks to Matt and Dav for showing me around!

  • My Problem With Facebook Platform

    Facebook Overflowing Requests
    I’m getting tons of these junk requests every day. I wish Facebook would provide a mechanism to “ignore future invitations” so I wouldn’t have 5 new iLike invitations whenever I login. (Besides, I already use Last.fm.) Otherwise, my requests page is becoming just as bad as my MySpace.

    Other than annoyances such as this, Facebook’s Platform is a great concept. I hope that Facebook further refines their Platform to accommodate for situations like this.

  • MySpace Hacking: Hiding Code From IE

    Note This no longer works. I use their Profile 2.0 now anyway.

    Today I noticed that my MySpace profile looked awful in Internet Explorer. I recently changed some stuff in my profile but didn’t touch my custom CSS. However, after looking through the code, I discovered the problem: MySpace is now scrubbing out “<!” from my profile.

    This is bad, because I make use of Internet Explorer’s conditional comments to hide some CSS from the browser. Basically, I was using this:

    <![if !IE]>
    <style>
    .yourStylesHere { font-weight: bold; }
    </style>
    <![endif]>

    Now, the “<!” bit is replaced with “..“, making the conditional statement worthless and exposing IE to what it shouldn’t be seeing.

    After some research, I found that the IE-only tag <comment> works just as well as the conditional comment I used before. By simply replacing the conditional tags with the <comment> tag, everything worked great in Internet Explorer (even IE 7).

    Now I have:

    <comment>
    <style>
    .yourStylesHere { font-weight: bold; }
    </style>
    </comment>

    This works great. I hope this helps someone!

  • MySpace Profile Facelift

    MySpace RedesignAbout a month ago, I followed the excellent guide to style a MySpace profile over at Mike Industries. He detailed many details about the challenges he faced in his blog that I shared when doing my own (still awful) modifications when I first signed up for a MySpace. I never thought I would be able to have my profile look as appealing as his styled goodness, however, he was nice enough to include some sample CSS for all to enjoy. Finally, I can seperate myself from the thousands of awful profiles that litter MySpace. Yay for Mike!

    I took his code and with some changes and my own graphics I finally have a MySpace profile worth looking at (see screenshot at right). I’m very happy with it: it’s about as good as it could look without overlaying the whole page or commenting out chunks of HTML. Check it out, and have a look at Mike’s guide to make your own.