Archive for the 'Yahoo!' Category

Playing with Picnik

Wednesday, December 5th, 2007

I played with picnik for a few minutes this morning. It was fairly interesting, a but slow and laggy, but not bad. Was a bit disappointed that as a pro member of flickr I don’t get the premium functionality of picnik.

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yahoo beats google in customer satisfaction

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

Posted by mobile phone:I am watching cnbc while on the excersize bike while blogging (multitasking++). They had a very.short piece about how yahoo customer satisfaction has grown 3 percent to pass google who has dropped 3 percent.
When I look at the two platforms, I have very little loyalty to google products.
Google search: I […]

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In defense of the Internet - Network Neutrality

Sunday, April 1st, 2007

Yesterday I read the an article on Network Neutrality on CNN.com. The article was written by Craig Newmark of Craigslist and was VERY wrong.
Here’s part of what bothered me:
Here’s a real world example that shows how this would work. Let’s say you call Joe’s Pizza and the first thing you hear is a message saying […]

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On Y! Pipes

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

The first version of this post was eaten when Y! Pipes decided to take down firefox (seemed to happen a lot when I was hovering over the sources waiting for the tooltip top pop up - FF1.5.0.9)
Y! Pipes is a cool toy. There is a lot of interesting functionality, but a lot that could […]

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Yet another Blog Year-End Review: 2006

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2007

In the footsteps of a couple good friends I’ve decided to make the first blog entry of the new year yet another year in review round-up for the year 2006.
It’s hard to believe that we’re already done with 2006, this one went by fast. A lot happened, and due to the overflow of work, I […]

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IBM OmniFind Yahoo! Edition

Monday, December 18th, 2006

Nice free enterprise search solution from IBM and Y! The 5 minute flash walk-through shows some of the neat features. There aren’t a whole lot of technical details other that it’s Lucene based.
As seen on UB

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Yahoo Opens up Signup System

Sunday, October 1st, 2006

Yahoo! announced that it’s opening up its signup system to allow external sites authenticate their users using yahoo.
You build great web applications. We have millions of users who store their data on Yahoo!. Browser-Based Authentication (BBAuth) makes it possible for your applications to use that data (with their permission).
BBAuth also offers a Single Sign-On (SSO) […]

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