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Yahoo! Calendar API Coming “Soon”

January 27th, 2008 · No Comments · Yahoo

While browsing one of the Yahoo! developer groups for information on something else, I noticed that somebody accidentally published a spec for an upcoming Calendar API.
I tried to move this forward way back in 2005, so it’s exciting to finally see this coming, although since I left Yahoo! I’ve started using 30Boxes (which has its [...]

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Yahoo Reported to Plan Hundreds of Layoffs

January 21st, 2008 · No Comments · Yahoo

Link: Yahoo Reported to Plan Hundreds of Layoffs
"Over the weekend, some blogs reported that Yahoo was considering layoffs of 10 to 20 percent of its work force. But the people close to the company, who discussed Yahoo’s layoff plans on condition that they not be identified, said the cuts would likely be in the ‘hundreds.’"

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Yahoos Quest to Open Up – Bits – Technology

January 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Yahoo

Link: Yahoos Quest to Open Up
"For months, Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang has been talking about swinging open the doors to the Yahoo portal. A key goal, he has said again and again, is to turn Yahoo into a set of platforms for third-party publishers and developers."

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Yahoo, EBay to Team Up in Japan

December 3rd, 2007 · No Comments · Yahoo

Link: Yahoo, EBay to Team Up in Japan
"Yahoo Japan Corp. and eBay Inc. said Tuesday they have agreed to team up in online auctions, planning services for next year that will make it easier for consumers to buy things via the Internet from the U.S. and Japan.
The deal will facilitate ‘cross-border trading’ and invigorate the [...]

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Shortcuts to Amazon MP3 Search

October 18th, 2007 · 2 Comments · Amazon, Yahoo

Yahoo! Search’s "Open Shortcuts" feature is the thing that keeps me using Yahoo! Search. It’s sort of a geek/power user feature, but it’s incredibly useful if you do lots of searches on specific sites. I find search shortcuts particularly useful for media sites such as Netflix and eMusic — because so many web sites talk [...]

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Small Steps at Yahoo Bear Fruit

October 16th, 2007 · No Comments · Yahoo

Link: Small Steps at Yahoo Bear Fruit
"…[Yahoo! CEO Jerry] Yang’s plan appears to be more a fine tuning of Yahoo’s existing strategy than a change in course. He said Yahoo had begun to de-emphasize some businesses, like its music subscription service, while sharpening its focus on areas where it is strong, like news, finance and [...]

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Yahoo’s Open Invitation

September 12th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Yahoo

Link: Yahoo’s Open Invitation
"This year, openness is the buzzword ringing through Yahoo’s Sunnyvale (Calif.) campus, and executives hope it translates into a strategy that helps set fortunes right. In the months since Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang replaced Terry Semel as chief executive officer, company leaders say they’re newly focused on opening Yahoo’s real estate to [...]

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How to Fix Yahoo!: Building a Yahoo! Platform

July 30th, 2007 · No Comments · Yahoo

Link: How to Fix Yahoo!: Building a Yahoo! Platform.
"Certainly the Yahoo! platform won’t fix Yahoo! by itself, but I think it should be a major part of their plans going forward. Turning My Yahoo! into an open platform for rich internet applications does two things: 1. it can unify Yahoo!’s services under one umbrella — [...]

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Yahoo-Microsoft

May 4th, 2007 · No Comments · Microsoft, Yahoo

We woke this morning to an radio news report that Microsoft and Yahoo are in merger talks. This kind of thing popped up several times during the time I was there. I recall that in 2006 the hot rumor was that Yahoo and eBay would get together, which would have been interesting for me. The [...]

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Yahoo Launches Third-Party Authentication for Developers

September 29th, 2006 · Comments Off · Platforms, Web/Tech, Yahoo

If you saw my presentation at O’Reilly Emerging Tech way back in March you might remember that I pre-announced a few products, including a Yahoo! Photos API and some others. At that time we also started discussing a new authentication product for developers that would enable users to access their Yahoo! data through through third [...]

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