Background: Yahoo’s launched an interesting and innovative new service, Pipes, which lets users with a relatively low degree of technological expertise combine...
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,...
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 from...
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,...
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...
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 rap....
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 as...
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 presumable...
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...
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...