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What’s in a name? Introducing Yodel Anecdotal
an·ec·dot·al (adj) : of, relating to, or being the depiction of a scene suggesting a story
Last night Yahoo! took the wraps off of a new corporate blog. Taking the place of Search blog which stood in for a long time as Yahoo’s central voice in the middle of a galaxy of Yahoo-specific product blogs (opml), [...]
answers.yahoo.com is a first person shoot ‘em up
Danny Sullivan takes a look at the growth of answers.yahoo.com and compares it to other successful social media properties.
If it were a computer game, Wikipedia would be a strategy game in which you take a long view to win a campaign or goal. Yahoo Answers is a first-person shoot-’em-up. Questions appear, and as soon [...]
flickr coloring contest
flickr was down yesterday so they held a coloring contest.
Happy Friday - Good Reading
I’ve been busy so have fallen behind on my reading. Scanning through some older posts in my reader I ran across these two excellent posts by some fellow Yahoo’s that make me proud to work here. Enjoy!
Searching for what doesn’t exist - Bradley Horowitz talks about answers.yahoo.com. Existing search engines point you to the best [...]
Yahoo Hack Day - a crash course in Product Management
Nice write up over on TechCrunch on a hack that I worked on with a team of seven other Yahoo’s spread out across the US.
Every couple of months groups of Yahoo’s band together to work on simple prototypes to work out a new concept or feature. Most are simple extensions of existing Yahoo products that [...]
New email format for Yahoo! Groups
Yahoo Groups just announced that they will embed new links in HTML emails from subscribed groups. From the notice:
Get one click access to your favorite group features.
If your group updated any content, you can find out from the email.
Message Archive Read and reply to group messages
Photos Share photos from your photo album
Calendar Coordinate group [...]
Yahoo Video adds sharing
Last night Yahoo Video added uploading so you can share your videos with your friends and the world. Once you’ve uploaded a video, you can add tags, email or IM a link to your video as well as cut & paste code so you can embed the video into your website or blog. The video [...]
Steve Westly does mashups
California primary elections are coming up on June 6th and while doing some research I noticed that Steve Westly has an interactive bus tour that uses Yahoo maps to show his travel schedule and links to a flickr set as well. Cool!
Map Directions on your iPod
iPod Directions is a cool little app that takes your Yahoo Maps (remember, we support multipoint and right-click location) driving directions and puts them in your video or nano iPod.
Note: I haven’t been able to get this to work with the Yahoo Maps Beta (I contacted the company several days ago but never heard back) [...]
flickr goes gamma
I have a confession to make. Although I’ve been using flickr for a good long time (I’ve posted over 500 photos since July 2004), it was only several months ago that I clued into the Recent Activity feature. I had mainly been using the site as a way to stream photos to friends and family [...]
