It's been a while since I've written anything.

I've been working on Renkoo. And slowly building a Adam Rifkin profile there.

And, I've been celebrating the Year of the Pig.

Sweet.

Renkoo has moved into private Beta, and we're building more every day!

To commemorate, here are my five favorite Renkoo Blog posts so far:

• Why the name Renkoo?
• Fontlove
• Renkoo Adium
• Scotchy scotchy scotch and Star Wars
• Enormous social prowess

Onward and upward!

(P.S. -- Props to K.C. who will be starting with the Flickr team on May 1... w00t!)

Top Five Quotes from Searching for a Fresher Taste in The Guardian:

5. "You can probably stitch together our plan from the moves we've made, the acquisitions we've made, the products we've put out to market." [That plan: to try and make social search the next stage in the evolution of search engines.]

4. "Day zero was when Jerry and David [Filo and Yang, the founders of Yahoo] went into a dorm room in 1994 and decided they'd organise the web. What came around next was the automated phase that led to companies like AltaVista and Inktomi. The third phase was really the innovation that Google came up with, looking at the topology of the web - link structures, back linking." That was in 1998.

3. "In topology search, what you're really doing is conferring to webmasters the privilege of deciding what's important for everybody. They cast their votes on what's important by building links - and they do it in a way that smears it out for everybody, so we all get the same results. [The concept of personal search and social search] democratises that process, and says 'why should webmasters be the only authority we trust and confer that privilege to?'. Why can't I pick other authorities of trust, like for instance my friends? What is their opinion?"

2. "If you're trying to find the population of London, you don't need social search. But if you're trying to find a restaurant to eat at, a blog to read, or a plumber who's reputable - the kind of things you depend on the expertise of others to know - that's where the social search phenomenon comes in."

1."We are agents of change within the organization. We're here to cause trouble. It's largely about innovation, it's about disruption, it's about change. It's about kind of the mortar between the products. Yahoo Calendar, Yahoo Local, Yahoo Maps, Flickr - how can we knit all of those together to create some uber-applications that are extremely compelling and aren't really in the purview of any of one group to deliver?"

Uber-applications are a great idea. Increasingly-useful services will integrate existing services in new and interesting ways. At Renkoo we started slowly but we'll keep building and integrating and improving with every rollout.

I got sick of complaints about the Yahoo-defined "Pink" theme. So I switched to the Yahoo-defined "Martini" theme.

Anyone want to complain now? Bring it...