November 2010
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Yahoo! to Participate at UBS Annual Global Media... →
WHAT: Carol Bartz, Yahoo! CEO, will participate in a question and answer session at the UBS Annual Global Media and Communications Conference.
WHEN: The session is scheduled to begin at 12:30pm PT / 3:30pm ET on Tuesday, December 7, 2010.
HOW: A live webcast of the session will be available on the Investor Relations website at
http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/events.cfm?CalendarID=5
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Union Square Ventures Funds Delicious Founder... →
From AllThingsD :
Joshua Schachter, who built social bookmarking site Delicious and sold it to Yahoo, has raised money for his next venture, which he’s calling…Tasty Labs. Get it?
Other than telling the world that Tasty Labs will put “the useful back into social software,” Schachter and his co-founders are being coy about what Tasty is up to. But they did announce today that they’ve taken an...
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Sync Yahoo calendar with Evolution in Ubuntu →
From OMGUbuntu :
Yahoo calendar uses the CalDAV protocol which is supported out of the box in Evolution. Thus setting it up is a cinch.
Open Evolution and go to New > Calendar
Select ‘CalDAV’ as calendar type.
Give the calendar a name – this can be anything you like
In the URL section enter https://caldav.calendar.yahoo.com
Username is your Yahoo! account username (including...
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Yahoo Experiments With New UI, Content For Local →
From SearchEngineland :
Overall the new site is less cluttered and more attractive visually. However it is also “missing” some features that are present today.
The first thing you notice about the new Local UI is that it’s essentially a list, likely inspired by Twitter and/or Facebook’s news feeds. Another significant change is the absence of a map on the Local home page or internal pages....
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A Flickr Founder’s Gaming Start-Up to Release... →
From NYT.com :
Stewart Butterfield helped found Flickr, the popular photo site later acquired by Yahoo, as a backup. Originally, he had set out to build an online video game, but then detoured when he failed to find investors.
Now, six years later, Mr. Butterfield, made wealthy by the sale of Flickr, is back to video games. Tiny Speck, his start-up, is testing its first game, Glitch, with more...
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WatchA nice hack by sy1bzbn demoing the deep integration of Yahoo! Calendar into Yahoo! Mail Neo beta. The userscript should be avalaible soon. Learn more here.
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Yahoo's Mobile Apps Get Game in SF →
From ClickZ :
Games are the most popular type of mobile app, and to promote its own mail and other apps, Yahoo is putting a twist on mobile games. The company is set to launch a series of interactive outdoor touch-screen games placed in San Francisco bus shelters, and will egg on competition among Bay Area neighborhoods to score a free concert featuring OK Go.
The goal of the Yahoo Bus Stop...
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Yahoo.com : the tablet version
A tip has told us that Yahoo! has published the tablet version of its homepage. The site is located at yahoo.com/tablet. The layout has been optimized for touch devices but if you’re checking it on a traditional laptop all links will lead you to the normal version of each website.
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WatchA video for Yahoo! News Facebook Fans
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CEO of Yahoo! acquired Xoopit talks about email...
Bijan Marashi, CEO of Yahoo! acquired Xoopit, explains why you should not start an email startup
20 Reasons Why Not To Do an Email Startup
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Facebook, Yahoo And AOL Join Petition For Libel... →
From itproportal :
Facebook, Yahoo, AOL UK, Mumsnet and the Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) have written an open letter to David Cameron calling for “urgent reform” of UK libel laws to better protect free speech online.
In the letter, part of the Libel Reform Campaign, the group appeals for the prime minister to update the current UK legislation, describing it as having a...
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WatchWeekly Yahoo! Search Trends – November 19, 2010
Yahoo Integrates 75,000 GetJar Apps into Mobile... →
From MarketingVox
Yahoo is starting to test integration of its mobile search queries with the 75,000 plus apps offered by Get Jar. This move follows Google’s incorporation of iTunes into its mobile search in June, effectively inserting itself into the conversation between the customer and iTunes that Apple had previously claimed as its own. Neither play should come as any surprise to...
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The state of YHOO - Going up →
From Benzinga :
SmarTrend identified an Uptrend for Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) on September 24, 2010 at $14.38. In approximately 2 months, Yahoo! has returned 18.6% as of today’s recent price of $17.05.
In the past 52 weeks, shares of Yahoo! have traded between a low of $12.94 and a high of $19.12 and are now at $17.05, which is 32% above that low price.
Yahoo! is currently above its 50-day...
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Soon an App Store for Yahoo! Connected TV →
From YCTVBlog.com :
Since launching in 2008, Yahoo! ® has built one of the largest global Internet-connected TV platforms, bringing the best of the Web to the TVs of millions of consumers across 135 countries. Last year at CES, we opened up the Yahoo! Connected TV platform to app developers. Today, we are announcing the expansion of the Connected TV Widget Developer Program providing developers...
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Yahoo! Koprol Hits 1 Million Users! →
From the Yodel:
To celebrate being the 1 millionth member to join our Indonesian location-based social networking site Yahoo! Koprol, one lucky member received a gift of Rp 1,000,000. Didit, a junior high school student in Depok, West Java, also known as @diditdomba on Koprol received a gift of Rp 1,000,000 from the Yahoo! Koprol team.
Yahoo! Koprol focuses on the intersection of community and...
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LinkedIn CEO: Yahoo Isn't Over →
LinkedIn CEO backed up Yahoo! again.
From Mashable:
Jeff Weiner, the CEO of LinkedIn and a former executive vice president of Yahoo, says that Yahoo isn’t over and that the digital media company of the future has yet to emerge.
During a conversation with Federated Media CEO John Battelle on stage at San Francisco’s Web 2.0 Summit Wednesday, Weiner was asked his opinion of Yahoo and whether it...
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Yahoo to phase out classic email in 2011 →
Ouch! I bet more than one user wil be upset about that. The current beta better be a killer product in the end!
From Gmanews.tv :
Yahoo Philippines officially unveiled this week a more streamlined version of its popular web email service, updating the classic interface which has remained essentially unchanged for 13 years.
Last November 15, Yahoo Philippines launched Yahoo! Mail Beta, which...
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Yahoo, can you please shut down this spam bot ?
Every single day I receive spam which obviously comes from an Asian spambot. oh sure those messages are correctly filtered out of my inbox. yet this is nonetheless really annoying to manually delete those when checking for false positives.
So please Yahoo! can you just have this spam bot shut down ??
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Yahoo Developing Content Optimization Service →
From PC World :
Yahoo is developing technology to help publishers personalize their websites, in much the same way that it helps them to populate their sites with ads, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said on Tuesday.
“We’re looking at helping people manage their content,” Bartz said at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, during a keynote appearance in which she was interviewed on...
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Introducing Yahoo! Messenger 11 Beta! | Yahoo!... →
From the Y! Messenger blog:
DO MORE THAN JUST IM – PLAY SOCIAL GAMES WITH FRIENDS Instant messaging is great but it takes more than just IM to stay in touch with the people who matter most to you. The new Yahoo! Messenger Beta offers more ways than ever before to connect (and have fun!) with friends and family. Not only can you instant message, text, and make voice and video calls, you can now...
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Yahoo! Introduces Clues →
From the Yahoo! Search blog :
Yahoo! Clues is a new beta service that gives you a unique “behind the scenes” look into popular trends across the millions of people who use Yahoo! to search each day.
With Yahoo! Clues, you can discover and compare trending information for search terms of interest to you, or explore popular trending search terms on Yahoo!
You can see search volume charts,...
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Yahoo! Search gets more localized
From a not yet published article on the Y! Search blog !
New and Improved Sketch-a-Search: New to the desktop and iPad, and improved for the iPhone, these first-of-their kind apps will allow you to zero in on where to eat by drawing on an area map and filtering restaurants by cuisine, ambiance, and ratings. The latest iPhone and desktop versions will even show you reviews of...
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No, Facebook Mail clearly is no killer to anything
Though the hype will want you to believe that Facebook Messages will kill your inbox provider, it clearly won’t. DumbCrunch published no less than twelve stories about the subject in just three days to drain your poor brain but good thing their readers were smart enough to get tired of the subject.
Don’t get fool, Face Messages is no more than a badly implemented Google Wave and...
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Carol Bartz to talk at Web 2.0 Summit today →
Carol Bartz is scheduled to talk at the Web 2.0 Summit today at 2pm PT.
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Ex-Yahoos To Launch New $10 Million Angel Fund →
From AllThingsD
A new $10 million micro-venture fund, led by former Yahoo top engineering exec Ash Patel–called Morado Ventures and funded by a group largely made up of ex-Yahoos–is about to launch, according to sources close to the situation.
Expected limited partners in Morado, which means “purple” in Spanish, include former Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, former COO Dan Rosensweig and former...
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My Experience as the First Yahoo! Contributor →
Tapping into the Associated Content for local news. Smart !!
From.. Associated Content :
I was thrilled to receive a message from the Yahoo! Contributor Network team that Yahoo! needed someone to cover an event for them. As a longtime contributor and living in Maryland, with the event being held in Delaware, I was selected as a person who might be a good fit for the assignment. I was...
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Here Comes The All New Yahoo! Calendar →
From the Yahoo! Mail Blog
Here are some new features that we baked into the All New Yahoo! Calendar.
Get your stuff done faster— You can view an entire month or focus on a specific date and time. You can also assign colors for different calendars and to-do lists, and drag-and-drop events between dates or years.
Sharing made easy—All New Yahoo! Calendar gives you more control to share your...
http://kara.allthingsd.com/20101115/yahoo-debuts-co... →
Now if only the could extend this program outside the USA, it’d be awesome :)
From AllThingsD :
Yahoo is debuting a new offering for its hundreds of million of users, which takes the Demand Media model and notches up the volume by presumably allowing a 1,000 flowers to bloom.
Or, more to the point, blab.
Called the “Yahoo Contributor Network,” the Internet giant is “inviting people to...
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WatchAOL teases Project Phoenix.Some smart features, let’s see if the folks at Yahoo! will get inspired by this new approach.
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Yahoo India looking for more language... →
From Reuters :
The Indian unit of Yahoo Inc is looking for six more Indian language content partners over the next one year, Arun Tadanki, managing director of Yahoo India, said on Monday.
Yahoo India currently publishes only Hindi language content on its website, in partnership with Dainik Jagran, which is run by media group Jagran Prakashan.
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Yahoo Music's Bronikowski Jumps To AOL →
From Yahoo! Finance :
Jeff Bronikowski is leaving his post after just 8 months as the head of Yahoo Music to join AOL, where he takes on the same role. The move comes just after AOL has revamped its home page and is continuing to build up its news and entertainment offerings.
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How to Export Facebook Friends’ Email Addresses... →
Wanna get out of Facebook but still retain your contacts ? Yahoo’s gonna help you for that
From geekosystem.com :
Facebook routinely gets flack for not letting users easily access their contacts’ email addresses in bulk; even their supposedly more user-friendly Download Your Information feature, released in October, doesn’t touch upon it. Plenty of techy types have come up with...
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Rejoice : Facebook email (yeh, irony...)
Hype wannabe bloggers are reporting that Facebook will launch its email service this monday.
And already I’m reading : “What will be the hip email address to have, gmail.com or fb.com?” on comments at Mashable. Yeh, I know… whatever.
Leaving aside kikoolol users, at least this means that Facebook will stop polluting you “real” email address with...
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WatchWeekly Yahoo! Search Trends – November 12, 2010
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More merger talks, this time with News Corps...... →
Circling around ? Here are more merger talks and some that we’ve already heard, After reports of potential partnership with AOL. This time it’s… News Corps again!
What’s gonna be next week ?
From SFGates :
The truth is, a source close to Yahoo tells us, neither Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz nor Yahoo’s board are currently reviewing or soliciting merger...
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Yahoo to expand its blog network Monday →
From CNN :
Yahoo, one Web behemoth, plans to add three new blogs to its growing family on Monday. Yahoo’s network expansion was born from a 7-month-old venture called The Upshot. For this blog covering breaking news and analysis, Yahoo recruited several seasoned journalists.
The new properties will live under The Upshot brand, but each take their own names — The Ticket for...
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Yahoo! Messenger will forever remain a mystery
If I tell you “Yahoo! Messenger”. Of course you’d say : Yahoo’s instant messenger software. Right ? Well I’d tell you other things…
1)- The way the Messenger works, in its different forms, is utterly weird to me. People I add on the desktop client are different from those I add via Yahoo! Mail Messenger. There does not seem to be a clean...
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Delicious updates its sharing features →
Though totally unrelated with this post, I do have to mention that the Delicious JavaScript is perfect to create a simple but complete customized linkblog on a single html page.
From the Delicious blog :
Have you seen random Delicious tiny URL’s floating around the ethos? Lonely Tweets with just a link and no text? We have too. When we implemented the Twitter feature to our ‘Save’ interface...
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Yahoo Plans 10 Percent Layoff in Product Unit →
Hopefully the company will not close its door outside the USA like AOL…
From AllThingsD :
Yahoo is indeed preparing to lay off employees, in a reduction in force that will be done in December.
But the layoffs, first reported in TechCrunch at 20 percent, will be closer to 10 percent and be almost completely centered on the product organization under Chief Product Officer Blake Irving,...