Yahoo Pipes Background: Yahoo’s launched an interesting and innovative new service, Pipes, which lets users with a relatively low degree of technological expertise c...
I am okay with my Yahoo sign-in. I’ve seen a lot of weird, very belated, hand-wringing about Flickr requiring early adopter users to sign in with their Yahoo accounts. This is prompted, I unde...
The Story Is What You're Reading Here are the things to look at on the Internet today. India’s President, Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, asks Yahoo Answers, “ What should we do to free our planet fr...
It's the circle of (web) life! Picture Terry Semel holding a little lion cub up in the air with both arms extended. What’s that? It’s the Circle of Life! Well, maybe Circle of Life 2.0? Okay...
Portalization Proceeds A few years ago, I wrote a post called Portalization which showed a Yahoo homepage screenshot with certain services grayed-out, as an indicator of which corr...
This is what you should read on the web So maybe Gracenote (formerly CDDB) isn’t evil after all ? I love anything that challenges the conventional wisdom, especially when someone’s gotten a bad...
The Flip 2K5 Or, “Yahoo bought everyone on my buddy list, and all I got was this t-shirt”. Following up on the discussion about Web 2.0 from last week, the only thing a...
Yahoomba Yahoo just bought Bloomba’s creators , Stata Labs. And promptly shut down downloads. While it seems like a nice feature to complement Oddpost in the presumabl...
Content Targetting for Personal Ads Sure, personal ads are one of the biggest money-makers on the web, with everyone from InterActiveCorp to Friendster being involved in the space, and of course...
subtle overtures You know, back when AltaVista was a big deal for DEC, I figured it was going to kill Yahoo, since Yahoo only had a directory and AV had full-text indexes of hu...
Google Go Bye-Bye? Looks like Yahoo! Search has dropped Google results. Not that I’d ever use Yahoo’s search anyway, but it’s a bad sign for the big Y....
buzzing at yahoo If you look at the "buzz" section on my portal , you can see that I like to check up on what’s popular on the web. The only link on there that I reg...
Was it common knowledge that Was it common knowledge that Yahoo’s "What’s New" page lists web logs as one of its choices under starting points? Presurfers of the world, unite....
Jason emailed me about a Jason emailed me about a bunch of Yahoo history links that he just added, and some of these are really great. I guess I am as guilty of the tendency for inst...
Here's a mirror of Yahoo Here’s a mirror of Yahoo circa 1994 . I think this is right around the first time I saw Yahoo. I was reminded of this because I saw Akebono wrestling on TV....
And for more Yahoo history, And for more Yahoo history, some screen shots of old browsers visiting the site ....
You might have missed me You might have missed me mentioning it a while back on my other blog , but I’ve really taken a liking to Yahoo’s Buzz Index, and now there’s an explanation o...
Did you know Yahoo has Did you know Yahoo has a User Research program that solicits people to be testers for them? I didn’t....
I figure the last thing I figure the last thing the world needs is another media player, apparently Yahoo! thinks otherwise …...
From Evhead: Does Yahoo! Astrology From Evhead : Does Yahoo! Astrology detect I’m coming in from San Franicsco? Half the time, they seem to mention venture capital. Today, mine says, “You...
