November 2009
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Ko Promoted To Yahoo Audience Head →
Yet another management shuffle at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). Only ten months after being promoted to global head of Yahoo Mobile, David Ko is now also gaining responsibility for all of Yahoo’s content sites in North America, including News, Sports, and Finance, we have confirmed with the company. AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher first reported the news earlier today. Ko succeeds Jeff Dossett, wholeft his post...
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Will Yahoo! Close Yahoo! Bookmarks ?
This week Yahoo! rolled out a new login process for Delicious, allowing users to merge their existing Delicious credentials with their Yahoo ID. The process is pretty well done has it enables you to keep your Delicious vanity URL and be logged in whenever you are identified on the Yahoo! network. I’d say… about time!
In the past Yahoo! got rid of MyWeb and invited users to migrate to...
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Yahoo! Mail Easter eggs & hidden tips
So you think you’re a power Yahoo! Mail user ? Do you master all those keyboard shortcuts ? Good. Now here is a list of Yahoo! Mail hidden tips and tricks. It was originally compiled by jakk9406 in the Yahoo! Mail Group. Some are well known by advanced users, some just are plainly useful to everyone.
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+Up/Down Configure extended navigation
Alt+click on Yahoo! mail...
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You In ? from Yahoo! For Good
To celebrate the ThanksGiving spirit, Yahoo! is launching a new website called You In ? it’s basically a mashup gathering Yahoo! Maps and Flickr where you’re invited to update your Yahoo! Profile with kind words.
From kindness.yahoo.com
Help us create a ripple of good around the world with purple acts of kindness. Update your status to share what you’re doing to spread...
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The Yahoo! Asia Buzz Award 2009 is up →
And that’s a pretty nice website!!
Yahoo Loses The Brains Behind Boss →
The brains behind Yahoo Boss, a young engineer named Vik Singh, is leaving Yahoo to become an entrepreneur-in-residence at Sutter Hill Ventures. Earlier this year, Singh was named to Technology Review’s 35 Under 35 list at the age of 24. Singh is exactly the kind of talent Yahoo should be trying to hold onto, but that is hard to do now that it is ceding search to Microsoft.
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Various Concepts for Yahoo! Mail
I often find myself wishing for some features to be implemented in Yahoo! Mail and ultimately get frustrated by the slow development of the service. For this reason I have made several concepts and certainly will come up with some others in the future. I have decided to gather them all in this entry. Check out after the break.
A Yahoo! Mail Archive fetching all activities that occurred on a...
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Read your social networks in Yahoo Mail
Yesterday i mentioned a new application under work powered by Sobees. It’s currently available in the United Kingdom so everyone can access it by setting their Yahoo! account to return UK content and then installing it in Yahoo! Mail. You may reset your Yahoo! account to your favorite location.
The apps, renamed “My Social Networks”, looks like Tweetdeck and is presented with...
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Microsoft, Yahoo search pact cleared in Canada,...
Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. said Tuesday that their high-profile, proposed search and advertising partnership has been cleared by antitrust officials in Canada and Australia, positive developments for the companies as they await a related decision from U.S. regulators.
“Microsoft and Yahoo have been notified that Australian and Canadian authorities have separately concluded their reviews...
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Icahn escalates war of words with Yahoo →
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn fired off a second open letter to Yahoo Friday saying the company should offer to sell to Microsoft for $34.375 a share.
Icahn said if he succeeds in his proxy battle to remove the Internet company’s current board of directors, he will cut off talks with Microsoft about alternative transactions if the software maker can’t guarantee that investors will get at least...
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Calendar as a tab in Mail still in work
Wonder when it will finally be released. From the Suggestion board:
Now let’s hope they can do that by the end of the year. Among the problems that were brought about let’s note :
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3 steps Yahoo! has to take to shine again
Ever since she replaced Jerry Yang as CEO of Yahoo! in December 2008, Carol Bartz has always said that she wants to focus on the main product offered by the company. This includes Yahoo.com, Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger. This strategy is really smart and it allows her to close unpopular services like the Briefcase or Geocities and save money for what’s really important. In addition she...
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Interview: D.Mcdowell & G.Talon - Yahoo Mail...
One of the most popular services of the Yahoo! network certainly is Yahoo! Mail. That’s why I opened the Yahoo! Mail Group, a place where users can published their feedbacks and share tips and tricks with other users. During a Yahoo! event in London I had the occasion to interview David McDowell, Director of EU Communications Products and Gregory Talon, Product Manager for Yahoo! Mail in Europe....
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Interview Yahoo! : Tapan Bhat & Rich Riley
As Yahoo! launched their new homepage in Europe last week, I had the opportunity to ask few questions to Rich Riley, head of Yahoo! Europe and Tapan Bhat, Senior Vice-president of Integrated Consumer Experience. I could have asked them thousands of questions but hey, I was not the only one over there :) (too bad!). So Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing, it is said, is gaining search market at the...
Welcome to Yahoonaut
Hello, My name is Guillaume I work as a French Journalist. I’ve never been good with personal blogs mainly because I can’t really find the time needed to write a decent article outside of work. I tried with InsideYahoo.net. I tried with YahooVibes.com.
I believe a Tumblr would be much more suited for what I have in mind, that is, bits of news here and there about Yahoo, feedbacks,...