Yahoo has built a number of applications for the iPhone (and even a custom one for the iPad already), but with all the buzz about location-aware services they haven’t yet felt the urge to optimize its own Upcoming service for the mobile platform.
Enter developer Nik Fletcher, who has spent about a year developing one dubbed [...]
Tags: Accesses, Api Access, Buzz, Friends, Guess, Ipad, Iphone, Itunes, Long Time, Mobile Platform, Nearby Events, Optimized Website, Personal, Store Yahoo, Tagline, Urge, Yahoo, Yahoo Email, Yahoo Mobile, Ydn
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Sun, April 4 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Paul Tarjan had been at Yahoo for three years. That was enough.
Yesterday, to commemorate his last day at the company, Tarjan released a video on YouTube (embedded below) that he says sum up his 1,032 days at Yahoo. In “White & Nerdy,” he raps about PHP, SearchMoney, and YUI — all things his hands were [...]
Tags: Amp, Chamillionaire, Co Worker, Creators, Embedded, Grammy, Greener Pastures, Parody, Tarjan, Weird Al Yankovic, Yahoo, Yahoo Video, Yahoos, Youtube
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Sun, March 28 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
During his keynote at SXSW this afternoon (live blog here), Twitter CEO Evan Williams just announced a new “At Anywhere” platform, which allows websites to more deeply integrate the service into their sites. The idea is to offer a more seamless experience to Twitter users navigating third party sites like the Huffington Post and [...]
Tags: Amazon, Ceo, Ebay, Evan Williams, Frameworks, Huffington Post, Integration, Javascript Guru, Keynote, Meebo, New York Times, People, Profile, Profiles, Publishers, Seamless Experience, Third Party, Tweet, Twitter, Yahoo
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Mon, March 15 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
New data released from analytics service Hitwise today names Facebook the largest website in the U.S. with 7.07% of all U.S. visits. Google is second at 7.03%. Yahoo Mail is third with 3.8% and Yahoo is fourth at 3.67% (if you combined both Yahoo properties, and I’m not sure why they don’t, Yahoo would [...]
Tags: Comscore, Facebook, Google, Google Yahoo, Hitwise, Mail, Microsoft, Names, Population, Yahoo
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Mon, March 15 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments
Earlier today, in writing about Google buying the photo-editing service Picnik, we noted that the most interesting thing about the buy may be that Picnik is currently Flickr’s default photo editor. Upon hearing the news, we reached out to both Google and Yahoo (which owns Flickr) to see what it means for the future of [...]
Tags: Acquisition, Aviary, Dodgeball, Editing Service, Flickr, Google, Google Yahoo, Openness, Outcast, Partner, Partnership, People, Photo Editing, Photo Editor, Photo Service, Photo Sharing Sites, Picnik, Relationship, Third Party, Yahoo
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Tue, March 2 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments