September 2010
15 posts
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Delicious welcomes Xmark users
Xmarks formely known as Foxmarks announced two days ago that they will close their door. The Delicious team has published a new blog entry and provides links to tools to import your Xmark bookmarks into Delicious.
Xmarks was great and made me fall in love with synchronization. But then Chrome and Firefox slowly replicated its features.
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Research on Google and Yahoo! - Evolution in the... →
From MarketWatch:
Internet information providers’ giants Google and Yahoo have been enjoying higher revenues this year much like a large majority of their peers. Part of the boost has come from advertising which companies are starting to reinvest in as the economy begins to stabilize. However, most players in the industry are also looking to expand the reach of their businesses both...
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Other Yahoo! Top Executives to Leave →
Wow it’s really getting crazy. If only I could replace one of them, Yahoo! would rock your world…
From TheStreet:
Two senior executives at Yahoo! are leaving the company as CEO Carol Bartz continues her housecleaning. Executive Vice President Hilary Schneider, who is responsible for its business partnerships and advertising sales in the U.S. and the Americas, is expected to leave,...
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Yahoo! takes a step back in the new Groups →
From the Yahoo! group blog:
Based on your feedback, we are going to iterate on the new design separately from the original Groups product. For those who are interested in using the new design, we are creating a whitelist (instructions forthcoming in a blog post next week) where you can sign up for the option to use the new design. There are two things to note about this whitelist: (1) you can...
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J.Weiner: Yahoo Is In A Position To Do For... →
From Techcrunch:
He believes that currently, there are three waves of disruption on the internet. The first was the portal, connecting users to other information on the web, which is something that Yahoo was able to play a key role in. The second wave involved search, which was clearly led by Google, whose algorithm was a key disrupter. But there isn’t as much of an element of serendipity in...
Yahoo! News teams up with Washington Post →
The Washington Post and Yahoo! News have joined forces to launch a daily video feature called “The Fast Fix,” starring Chris Cillizza, PostPolitics.com managing editor and author of the Post’s blog The Fix.
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Did you know Yahoo! Mail has full IMAP ?
Yahoo! Mail recently opened IMAP for anyone. It used to be availble for smartphones and Zimbra only. You may now set up your Yahoo! account (paid or free) with IMAP anywhere. Follow the instructions here.
Learn more great tips in the Yahoo! Mail group.
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Microsoft Bing engineering manager leaves for ...... →
From ZDnet :
Don Bradford, an Engineering Manager in charge of Bing’s client user experience, has resigned from Microsoft and may be joining Yahoo, according to a tipster of mine close to Microsoft. Microsoft is confirming that Bradford has left.
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Yahoo Media Chief And Rising Star Set To Leave →
From Forbes :
Yahoo Media honcho Jimmy Pitaro is expected to leave the company. The report, first reported by All Things D’s Kara Swisher, comes after his boss, Yahoo chief executive Carol Bartz, told an audience at a Goldman Sachs conference last week that the media has made too grand a deal out of the recent rash of executive departures at Yahoo. In fact, according to Business Insider’s...
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Yahoo, RealNetworks Music License Fees Voided by... →
From BusinessWeek
A U.S. appeals court in New York reversed a series of lower-court decisions setting license fees for the Internet companies Yahoo! Inc. and RealNetworks Inc. to stream songs online. A three-judge panel of the appeals court today threw out a set of blanket rates to be paid by the two companies to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, or ASCAP, which licenses...
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Yahoo CEO Bartz to speak in Atlanta →
“Yahoo Inc. CEO Carol Bartz will be interviewed at the USA Today CEO Forum held at Georgia State University on Wednesday.”
Of course I forwarded a list of questions to the journalist. Ask yours here > http://is.gd/fqjC6
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Hotmail security updates protect you from account... →
Hotmail is constantly gaining new features since the summer upgrade. I wish the Yahoo! Mail team could follow Gmail’s development as well. Kudos to Microsoft, the new Hotmail is actually very powerful.
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Twitter made its way to Yahoo! Pulse
The desktop version of Yahoo! Pulse now fully mimics the mobile version as twitter’s just been integrated. I guess it won’t be too long before the micro-blogging platform is implemented in Y!Mail as well
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UAE unblocks photo site Flickr →
From Press Association :
“The United Arab Emirates has restored access to Flickr after years of blocking the popular photo-sharing website.
The decision this week to ease restrictions on the Yahoo-owned site comes amid a debate over digital freedom in the Gulf nation ahead of a planned block on BlackBerry smart phone services.
Yahoo Middle East executive Ahmed Nassef calls it a...
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Y!Mail currently being tested →
Not sure whether G.Talon, PM for Y!Mail Europe is talking about internal testing. I secretly wish the new Y!Mail has gone beta testing to some general users. Anyway, things seems to be getting shape