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Filed under 'yahoo'
➠ August 12, 2010
What Happened to Yahoo
The answer is nothing. Nothing happened to Yahoo. It’s been chugging along in its happy little “Holy shit! Can you believe we still exist?!” bubble for almost 15 years.
➠ October 21, 2009
➠ March 10, 2009
➠ December 16, 2008
Not quite what I had in mind.
George Oates’s tale of being laid-off from Flickr, whilst half-way around the world, speaking on Flickr’s behalf.
➠ October 14, 2008
➠ September 13, 2008
Hello, I Am the Control Panel
Inside a solar-powered, geo-coding, flickr-photo-uploading, purple bicycle.
Seth & Ben present FireEagle
Kent Brewster on Rolling Your Own API
The marvelous, non-functioning projector making his life harder.
➠ September 12, 2008
Hack Day Display
Kent Brewster's Hack Day Display, pulling in the latest photos from Flickr, and tweets from Twitter.
➠ June 18, 2008
Stewart Butterfield's bizarre resignation letter
That’s the way to do it. “Nary a sheet of tin has rolled of our own production lines in over 30 years!”
➠ March 5, 2008
Fire Eagle
Fire Eagle has launched — a broker for your physical location, which other applications can use to improve user experiences. It’s really just APIs and geekery at the moment, but the applications that use and enable it will start appearing pretty quickly — I’ve already got a couple of ideas.
➠ February 1, 2008
➠ January 17, 2008
Yahoo! OpenID
Yahoo embraces OpenID, acting as a identity provider for now, and promising consumption to come. Unfortunately, it uses the new OpenID 2.0 spec, so I don’t know of a single site where you can use it yet, but hey! It’s a start.
➠ April 24, 2007
➠ February 8, 2007
Pipes: Boing Boing depimpifier
My best pipe so far — Boing Boing’s RSS feed, but without Cory and Xeni’s constant self-promotion, and Mark F’s plugs for Make Magazine.
Pipes from RodBegbie
Here are the pipes I’ve created so far. Wish Flickr used the same ID for photos in regular streams as well as in pools, but I’m happy with a slight decrease in duplicity.
Pipes: Rewire the web
Wicked cool RSS/Atom masher-upper from Yahoo. Nice GUI and mapping model, which means making a Boing Boing feed without Xeni Jardin can essentially be a drag’n’drop operation.
➠ January 9, 2007
Bloggers unite! Yahoo! joins forces with MyBlogLog - Yodel Anecdotal
Yahoo buys MyBlogLog (no, really, etc.)
➠ November 2, 2006
Yahoo! UI Library (YUI)
Wicked-nifty Javascript UI library, generously open-sourced by Yahoo. Using this with Django and Lucene, I was able to knock out a pretty decent AJAXy autocompleting search box within 24 hours of opening my big yap in a meeting and suggesting it as a feature. (The “Design Pattern Library” is also worth a read to anyone who juggles HTML)
➠ July 20, 2006
Yahoo! Music Blog » Buy A Customized Jessica Simpson MP3 At Yahoo! Music
“Our position is simple: DRM doesn?t add any value for the artist, label (who are selling DRM-free music every day ? the Compact Disc), or consumer, the only people it adds value to are the technology companies who are interested in locking consumers to a particular technology platform.” Hells yeah!
➠ May 17, 2006
➠ May 6, 2006
➠ February 28, 2006
➠ February 24, 2006
Yahoo exec: Labels should sell music without DRM | News.blog | CNET News.com
Yahoo exec plants idea in record labels’ heads that DRM’d music is useless. Hope he can make it take root. The only people benefitting from DRM currently are Apple (getting iPod lock-in) and Microsoft (selling their technology to everyone else). Everyone else loses.
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This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
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