★ OK Let’s get this blog…
…back to business
∞ AOL's Garlinghouse interviewed on Yahoo!
From Fortune :
Former Yahoo exec turned Aol Consumer Apps President Brad Garlinghouse answers questions about the merger talks, the ‘Peanut Butter Manifesto,’ and why he thinks Yahoo is still doing it wrong.
★ Yahoo! Backyard & Frontyard websites
I’m kind of curious what the Yahoo! intranet websites look like. Some yahoo! employee mistakenly shared a link on Messenger pointing to the domain backyard.yahoo.com, and of course I can’t access it.
Doing a few research it seemed to look like :
and then became (click to enlarge) :
Looks like there’s also another website located at frontyard.yahoo.com. From what i’ve seen it seems to be linked to Yahoo! GuestHouse
By the way, should you ever want to crack Yahoo! intranet portal, check this article :)
★ Google Chrome Yahoo! theme
Do you like purple ? Do you use Google Chrome ? Well then here is another great tip from sy1bzbn who came up with a crx file that you can enable to install a new theme
Yahoo! Trend 10/29/2010
★ 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.
∞ Yahoo, RealNetworks Music License Fees Voided by Court
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 about 45 percent of the musical works played online, according to the opinion.
★ 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
∞ 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
