∞ Social TV : Yahoo! Acquires IntoNow
From Y! Finance :
Yahoo! the premier digital media company, today announced the acquisition of IntoNow. Launched in January 2011, IntoNow has built a platform and companion TV application based on real time indexing of television that deepens the connections between audiences, television content and advertisers. IntoNow has indexed more than five years of US based television programming, creating a rich database to build video discovery and programming experiences. IntoNow is able to identify content down to the airing, episode and time within the program as well as provide program information and links associated with it, all within a matter of seconds.
Why should Google place AllTheWeb before Yahoo Search for this query. Sounds like the Mountain View Giant is not happy about Yahoo’s decision to close this search engine…
∞ Yahoo! Joins Linux Foundation
From The Linux Foundation :
The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization dedicated to accelerating the growth of Linux, today announced that Yahoo! is its newest member.
Founded in 1994, Yahoo! is a major enterprise Linux user and premier digital media company that today attracts more than half a billion consumers a month in more than 30 languages. Yahoo! uses the Linux operating system as an integral part of its technical and developer infrastructure.
∞ Yahoo News Head Moves to Disney.com
From AllThingsD:
Yesterday, BoomTown reported that Mark Walker, the head of the powerful Yahoo News site, was leaving the Internet giant for another company.
That company, sources said, will be Disney, where Walker will be leading a major overhaul of its flagship Disney.com site.
The property, which has largely been a promotional and aggregation play for Disney’s many family-oriented offerings–such as its popular Disney Channel cable television shows–still sees 20 million unique visitors monthly.
Walker will report to Jimmy Pitaro, the former Yahoo media head who is now co-president of Disney’s online division with John Pleasants. Walker worked directly for Pitaro at Yahoo.
∞ Yahoo to acquire Flixster/Rotten Tomatoes ?
From AllThingsD :
Flixster–the popular social movie site whose brands include the Rotten Tomatoes premium reviews site, as well as BuddyTV–is in early acquisition talks with several suitors, including Yahoo, said sources close to the situation
∞ Yahoo! to Participate at UBS Annual Global Media and Communications Conference
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
Is Yahoo! Italia stealing URLs from Yahoo! France ?
∞ Union Square Ventures Funds Delicious Founder Joshua Schacter's Tasty Labs
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 investment from Union Square Ventures, which backed Schachter’s first venture.
Yeh.. but have they ever been…
∞ 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 @yahoo.com)
Once filled in click ‘Browse Server for a calender’
Choose the one you want and then click ‘OK’.
Now your chosen calendar should show up in the calendar section. Note that manual refresh doesn’t work but that the ‘next time you bring Evolution up your events are there.’
