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This very well might be one of those moments that defines tech news in 2008, especially if Yahoo! accepts Microsoft’s 44.6 billion dollar offer. For the past few years Yahoo! has been suffering. In 2006, this became more widely known when [click to continue…]

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I was browsing through Jonathan Snook’s blog earlier this morning when I noticed something at the bottom of his posts; a link for users to bookmark his posts on del.icio.us with a count of saves. I love stats and rather than going to sleep I decided to investigate this and roll it out on my blog. [click to continue…]

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One year ago today I was up very early in the morning in Sunnyvale, CA helping launch Yahoo!’s now 1 year old corporate blog, Yodel Anecdotal. Yodel Anecdotal is praised for being a real blog into the life and culture of Yahoo! and not just a press release outlet. In addition, Yodel Anecdotal is able to get vital feedback from real users with comments as opposed to [click to continue…]

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Up until now there had been only a few tools to help web developers assess the speed and optimization status of their websites. Primarily, there is the Net tool of the ever-popular Firebug add-on for Firefox. The Net tool can tell you what a website is loading, how long it takes, if it’s cached, headers and similar items. Yesterday, Yahoo! released their own add-on to Firebug called YSlow. [click to continue…]

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Back in 2005 I wrote an article detailing how to embed flickr slideshows within your blog or website. Since then, that post has received over 200 comments, a crazy amount of links and numerous mentions on popular blogs. I finally got the message that embeddable flickr slideshows were a hot item. [click to continue…]

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San Jose Mercury News recently launched a new weekly podcast called Inside Silicon Valley. Their first podcast caught my attention with an interview of Bradley Horowitz about Yahoo’s idea incubator, Brickhouse, in San Francisco. [click to continue…]

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One of the most common things web coders run into is the need to parse some type of XML file. Many web services return API calls in XML format, so it’s just handy to know how to parse these results quickly. With PHP4 you usually have to rely on some large parsing library to get the [click to continue…]

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Over the next few months, Yahoo! Mail users will begin having unlimited storage at their disposal. From the news pieces I’ve come across, the attachment size limit of 10MB (20MB for Y! Mail Plus subscribers) per email hasn’t changed. So much for emailing large movies of your [click to continue…]

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How To: Flickr Slideshow Badge

March 20, 2007

I love flickr and I’ve always yearned for a unique and interesting way of displaying my recent flickr photos on my site. Yeah, I could always just grab the standard flickr badge and style it up nicely with some CSS kung fu but in the end it will still be a bunch

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18 Seconds – Change a Bulb. Change Everything.

February 23, 2007

Yahoo!, in collaboration with AC Nielsen and a group of companies, government entities, etcetera, has launched a campaign to raise awareness about energy efficient light bulbs. 18Seconds.org is the location of the attractively-designed campaign, complete with a Yahoo! Maps mashup that lets you see how your city and state rank up in terms of CFL [...]

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Gift Ideas for the Flickr Fanatic

December 13, 2006

I love flickr. I really really do. No longer do I litter my hard drive with gigs and gigs of scattered photographs kept in folders all named some variation of 101MSDCF. I keep my 5,500+ photos easily accessible on flickr, organized with photo sets and abundant tags. So how can you add on to flickr’s [...]

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Flickr, “How We Did It”

December 4, 2006

Inc magazine has published an interesting conversation with Flickr co-founders Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield. They reminisce about the very beginning of Flickr, how they came up with the name and how they had originally planned on making a game. Flickr has grown into an amazing service and I feel lucky I got a chance [...]

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Google Answers Shuts Down

November 29, 2006

The Official Google Blog reported last night that they will stop accepting new questions for Google Answers later this week. Google Answers has been around for 4 years and has remained relatively primitive compared to the successful Yahoo! Answers. The Google blog also states that more than 800 people have used worked on getting the [...]

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New Flickr Features Live

November 22, 2006

Flickr recently rolled out three new features on the insanely popular photo sharing site. There’s the guest pass feature which lets you show private photosets to non-flickr users with unique URLs. Flickr has revamped their mobile site, accessible at m.flickr.com. Unfortunately, it only works for users with Yahoo! ID logins. The final feature is a [...]

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What Happened at Yahoo!’s Time Capsule Camp

November 9, 2006

Havi Hoffman, my hiring manager from Yahoo!, has written up a post on Yodel Anecdotal about this past Monday’s Time Capsule Camp. There were about 70 of us and the day began with a scavenger hunt in downtown Palo Alto. We were split up into 8 or so groups, each with a mobile phone and [...]

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