The Marissa Mayer Era is All About Product
People keep saying Yahoo engineers and employees are going to feel less-likely to want to leave Yahoo now that +Marissa Mayer is the CEO. While I’m sure it will be a more comfortable environment, I would be worried right now if I worked there. Here’s why:Yahoo needs a complete reboot.If Marissa’s smart, she’ll kill just about everything […]
Read more...Yahoo Launches SQL Interface to Twitter
Every time I switch to jQuery, Yahoo’s YUI libraries seem to keep luring me back. Just yesterday, Yahoo added one more tool to its arsenal of YQL libraries that actually makes the Twitter API intuitive, giving me another reason yet to switch back to yui, or at least consider using Yahoo a little more as […]
Read more...Live Blogging the Web 2.0 Expo: Yahoo Announces Y! OS #web20expo
Yahoo’s keynote proved very interesting. In it they announced a new technology they call, Y! OS. This technology is to be the beginning of a new Open, Social Strategy for Yahoo, and with the technology, as they term it, they are “Re-wiring Yahoo”. Starting today, Yahoo is opening up the beta for their Search Monkey […]
Read more...Yahoo Joins OpenSocial, Google Announces OpenSocial Foundation
Today Yahoo announced that they are joining forces with the OpenSocial platform, and will be joining both Google and MySpace to build “The OpenSocial Foundation”. This new foundation “will seek to ensure that the technology behind OpenSocial remains implementable by all, freely and without restriction, in perpetuity.” It is modeled after the current industry-supported OpenID […]
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