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With Or Without Yahoo, An iPhone App For Upcoming Made It To The App Store

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 [...]

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Sun, April 4 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

This Is Apparently How You Quit Yahoo [Video]

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 [...]

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Sun, March 28 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Twitter’s New “At Anywhere” Platform Allows For Deeper Integration Into Third Party Sites

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 [...]

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Mon, March 15 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Hitwise says Facebook Most Popular U.S. Site

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 [...]

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Mon, March 15 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments

Google: Flickr Can Keep Using Picnik. Yahoo: We Have No Comment.

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 [...]

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Tue, March 2 2010 » Uncategorized » No Comments