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• 18-Aug-2021

  
  Small shoutout; Perl and 1994 Yahoo! Earlier this year I did a bit of research that contributed to this article about how the very first versions of Yahoo! were built: 1994: How Perl Became the Foundation of Yahoo on the excellent webdevelopmenthistory.com
• 03-Apr-2020
  Yahoo Groups – goodbye. For some reason I failed to post this in December. Grumble. Sorry. Dear Group Moderators and Members, Thank you for your commitment to Yahoo and for helping us define the power of digital communities. Eighteen years ago, we combined the functionality of a site called eGroups.com with a precursor community platform called Yahoo Clubs to...
• 22-Jul-2009
  Yahoo! Updates (migration from Yahoo! 360) Moderately interesting. Another piece of data in the migration of everything on the web towards a Facebook-style or twitter-style update stream. Dear Yahoo! 360° and Flickr User, We’re contacting you because you shared your public Flickr photostream on Yahoo! by configuring photo-sharing in Yahoo! 360°. On July 23rd, as part of the closure of Yahoo!...
• 29-Aug-2008
  Yahoo! Mash Shuts Down Huh. Okay. You can see what my Mash profile looks like today only at http://mash.yahoo.com/websandiego. I wonder what Yahoo! will do in terms of social networks now? I think they’re focussed on OpenSocial, whose aim is to federate social software. I guess if you can’t build something standalone, build tools to embrace and extend other...
• 29-Apr-2008
  Terrific Article: Microsoft/Yahoo Excellent rundown of what the scenarios are for a Yahoo/Microsoft. I’m not as expert at understanding financial issues as some others, but I feel like this made me smarter — If Microsoft goes fully hostile on Yahoo by Marc Andreessen. I often see job opportunities for working at Yahoo — contracting positions at various facilities...
• 10-Oct-2007

  
  Yahoo Kool-Aid: Y! Mash and MyBlogLog Vernacular speech is pretty crazy stuff. “Drinking the Kool-Aid” is a metaphor for embracing something fully, often unthinkingly. This metaphor has its roots in either psychedelic drugs or mass religious suicide. Take your pick. Anyway, with that, I’ll cop to two new social-software, web two-point-oh oddnesses. The first is Yahoo! Mash, YASN. I’m not sure...
• 19-Aug-2002
  Smartest Thing Written on Yahoo and China Personally I disagree with Yahoo, and IDC. Personally I find China’s ability to combine censorship, oppression and capitalism as frightening as Al Qaeda. But let’s not be blind to realities here. And it seems that the Post’s coverage is willfully blind to them. China means profits. Participating in the Chinese “opportunity” means colluding with the...
• 05-Sep-2001
  David McLean of evolt… David McLean of evolt.org got something I wrote onto Yahoo! Canada‘s Quotation of the day — today. “So how do those who would protest get smart? They need to organize in such a way that they can beat the police, and the media, at their own game. Every protester in my mind needs a video...