∞ Yahoo! Search Trends: Halloween 2011
From YsearchBlog.com
With “Halloween costume idea” searches up 351% this monthon Yahoo!, everyone from grandma to the family dog are getting prepared to trick-or-treat this Halloween. From Pam Am Stewardesses to Charlie Sheen, Halloween searches range from traditional to pop culture driven, and one thing that is certain is #winning the Halloween race means finding a costume that hits home with you. Yahoo! searches reveal what’s piquing the interest of Americans this Halloween season.
∞ 30 new apps on Y! Connected TV
From Yodel Anectodal :
Today, we’re introducing more than 30 new TV apps available across the Yahoo! Connected TV platform, bringing the total to more than 120 available TV apps. Connected TV apps range in purpose from fun to functional, including social networking, streaming music, casual games, personalized financial quotes, locally relevant news, weather and sports, and more than 75,000 movies and TV shows on demand
∞ YouTube Founders Buy Delicious From Yahoo
From the NYT :
Fans of Delicious, an online bookmarking service, raised a ruckus after word leaked four months ago that its owner, Yahoo, might shutter it as part of a streamlining plan.
To deflect criticism, Yahoo quickly reassured users that it was trying to find Delicious a new home rather than kill it.
On Wednesday, Yahoo said that it had succeeded in finding a buyer — a team led by Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, the co-founders of YouTube. Their acquisition is a surprise move for the duo, who quietly left YouTube in the years after it was bought by Google five years ago for $1.65 billion.
∞ "Improve" Yahoo! Mail, at what cost ?
What is the “Improve Yahoo! Mail” Research Project? The “Improve Yahoo! Mail” Research Project will review and analyze a small percentage of user emails, IMs (instant messages), and other communications content to help Yahoo! plan new features and products, create better advertising experiences, and better understand our users’ needs and desires.
The new Yahoo Mail app, called “Improve Yahoo! Mail” looks kind of weird and not really Yahoo-like. basically if you opt-in you just grant access to your email to be scan by REAL people who can actually read them for
developing an understanding of the effectiveness and accuracy of not only new Yahoo! Mail product features, but also the personalization of new and existing products, features, content, and advertising.
We knew that Yahoo moble search was indexing mobile applications. In fact Yahoo even signed a deal with GetJar. It seems though that the desktop version of the search engine will soon return iPhone and Android applications.
Via M. Smith
∞ 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…
∞ 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.’
