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Category: Yahoo

  • Shortcuts

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    Some of the people I used to work with at Yahoo have come up with a nifty WordPress plugin called Shortcuts. It analyzes your blog posts and auto-suggests things like Flickr photos or Yahoo maps to add to your post.

  • Mail + IM

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    The Oddpost/Yahoo Mail Beta team strikes again – check out how seamlessly they’ve integrated IM into Yahoo Mail.

  • Open Source vs. Open APIs

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    When I helped start the Yahoo Developer Network, part of my job was to go around to all the product teams inside Yahoo and convince them that it would be good for their business to open up free web APIs. The response among technical folks was pretty universally enthusiastic. It’s just one of those ideas…

  • Who is Kana?

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    I wasn’t planning on starting the new year with a complaint, but allow me to vent about Yahoo’s horrible customer support. I’ve been using Yahoo Music to load songs onto my iriver MP3 player. Until it stopped working last week. I followed all the instructions about re-acquiring DRM licenses and resetting various things. Nothing worked…

  • Yahoo treat

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    What a treat to see Beck’s peformance at Yahoo Hack Day last night! He had puppets, mashups, a dinner table and lots of great music. Lots of pics on Flickr. Photo credit: bees.

  • YDN news

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    This is a big deal. Congrats to the YDN team.

  • Yahoo Mail upgrade

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    I just noticed several really nice additions to my Yahoo Mail. One reason I like web based apps is that you open your mail app one day and it just got better. No downloads, no system reboots, no waiting. New features I noticed: A new way of handling attachments inline with the message, seems much…

  • Approver.com

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    Jeffrey McManus just announced a new product called Approver.com. Jeffrey and I used to work together at Yahoo on the Yahoo Developer Network where he did an excellent job building the original team of YDN evangelists and community managers. Approver looks like a highly useful web service that handles document approval workflow for teams (a…

  • Yahoo Music, one year later

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    It’s been almost a year since I switched from iTunes to Yahoo Music. Time for an update. I’d say I’m 80% happy with my switch. I have little to no desire to switch back, primarily because Yahoo offers unlimited access to over a million songs, so you can search for any song and play it…

  • Yahoo home page

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    I like the new Yahoo home page and enjoyed Read/WriteWeb's podcast about it. But Ravi (ex-Yahoo) makes a good point I had not considered: "This homepage dropped the concept of website directory completely. I guess the transformation is complete. Yahoo! is now more about showing people in and around yahoo! network and not about showing…

  • YDN news

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    Important news from the Yahoo Developer Network (which I used to work on when I was at Yahoo) about a new rev of the Shopping API, and more crucially news of upcoming Photos, Calendar and MyWeb APIs. Why is this important? Because it’s the first batch of Yahoo APIs that open up personal user data.…

  • Moving On From Yahoo -> Automattic

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    I wasn’t going to write about this until my last day at Yahoo, but then Om Malik (the best informed man in Silicon Valley?) found out about 10 seconds after I started telling people at Yahoo, so here it goes: After a great time at Yahoo working on projects like the new Yahoo Mail (FKA…

  • Yahoo Mail Reviews Coming In

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    Official reviews are coming in. “The new interface is stunning in its simplicity and ease of use” “The new Yahoo Mail is far superior to Gmail”

  • Yahoo Mail Beta

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    The former Oddpost team and many people on the Yahoo Mail team have been working overtime to launch the new Yahoo Mail to public beta users this week. It’s very exciting to see such a high quality product launch to one of the biggest audiences on the web. You can sign up to try it…

  • New Yahoo Mail Coming

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    The fruits of Yahoo’s acquisition of Oddpost are starting to emerge into public view. Yesterday, we offered a few people a sneak peak of a new version of Yahoo Mail that’s based on Oddpost’s technology. There’s some discussion on it on the web. I particularly like Ross’s commentary. Comparisons between the new Yahoo Mail and…