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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.

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October 21, 2009

Free hint to spamming recruiters

Free hint to spamming recruiters

If you can't even be arsed to write an email to me, instead cramming your entire message in piss-poor English into the subject line of the email, I'm not interested in any "opptnys" you may have.

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March 10, 2009

Yahoo! Answers Makes Baby Jebus Cry

“How is Babby Formed?”, the blog.

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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.

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October 14, 2008

Yahoo! Releases OpenID Research

Spoiler: OpenID usability SUCKS MASSIVE DONKEY COCKS IN HELL FOREVER. The mental model is completely broken. Its one use that I can see: an open backend for “Login to this site with your foo.com account” style buttons

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September 13, 2008

Girl Talk

Girl Talk

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manima and yahooza

manima and yahooza

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HackSnacks

HackSnacks

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Hello, I Am the Control Panel

Hello, I Am the Control Panel

Inside a solar-powered, geo-coding, flickr-photo-uploading, purple bicycle.

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Seth & Ben present FireEagle

Seth & Ben present FireEagle

Kent Brewster on Rolling Your Own API

Kent Brewster on Rolling Your Own API

The marvelous, non-functioning projector making his life harder.

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September 12, 2008

Hack Day Display

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!”

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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

List of companies acquired by Microsoft Corporation - Wikipedia

I’ll take “Companies that have died on the vine” for $400 please, Alex.

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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.

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April 24, 2007

Yahoo! Music - Lyrics

Yahoo’s made a bunch of song lyrics legitimately available for searching. Nice, and all, but it’s still easier to google for “song title lyrics”.

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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.

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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.

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January 9, 2007

Bloggers unite! Yahoo! joins forces with MyBlogLog - Yodel Anecdotal

Yahoo buys MyBlogLog (no, really, etc.)

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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)

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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!

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May 17, 2006

YUI Tetris!

Tetris implemented in XHTML and Javascript, thanks to Yahoo’s javascript UI libraries.

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May 6, 2006

Drunk Men Work Here - On Bots

Visualizations on how Yahoo, Google and MSN (and comment spam bots) spider through content.

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February 28, 2006

ZoneTag Photos

It’s stuff like this that made me want to purchase a Series 60 cellphone again. Two-click Flickr photo uploading, along with geo-tagging.

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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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About This Site

This is an archive of groovmother.com, the old blog run by Rod Begbie — A Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.

I'm the co-founder of Sōsh, your handy-dandy guide for things to do in San Francisco this weekend.