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Yahoo! User Interface Library: amazing and free
In my very first days at Yahoo! working with the team that made the Local Events Browser demo using a bunch of Yahoo! APIs, I was really amazed at the Javascript/CSS talent assembled at Yahoo! As of today, a huge chunk of it is out there for anyone to use and the people who [...]
Amr, blogging star
Amr Awadallah is Yahoo’s new blogging star — he really hit the mark with his Google earnings predictions (which got picked up on CNN/Money and other places, I’m sure. See his “i told you so” post from yesterday).
There is some serious blogging mojo in my vicinity at work these days — [...]
Yahoo! in Fortune’s “100 Best Companies To Work For”
“Best of” lists aren’t the be-all and end-all measurement of transcendent goodness, but I think it’s a positive thing to be included in such lists. Yahoo! made its debut in this year’s Fortune “100 Best Companies to Work For” list, which is cool since I just started here five months ago. IDG, [...]
Corporate blogging panel at Syndicate
(Update: links added as the wi-fi improved)
I’m sitting in on the corporate blogging panel at Syndicate moderated by Charlene Li from Forrester, featuring Jeremy Zawodny (fellow Yahoo! and my cubemate), David Geller (WhatCounts), Greg Renaicker (Newsgator), and Jodi Baumann (Network Appliance — where Dave Hitz has a blog). A few random thoughts on the [...]
Hack Day at Yahoo!
Yesterday (with the help and support of all kinds of people across Yahoo!), I organized and ran the first “Hack Day” for the Search and Marketplace group (Jeremy does a good job of capturing the day). A few weeks ago, I put together an all-volunteer advisory team to decide how we should structure [...]
Yahoo! acquires del.icio.us!
Yes, it’s true as of a few minutes ago — del.icio.us just joined us at Yahoo! See Yahoo! Search blog and the deli.icio.us blog for the scoop.
Welcome Joshua and team!
John Battelle, the Yahoo! TechDev Speaker Series, and the “Flickrization” of Yahoo!
John Battelle visited Yahoo! yesterday and wrote about it on his blog (see perspectives on the talk from Jeremy, Matt, and Nate. I took the blurry photo you see on your right). I invited John to speak for somewhat obvious reasons (he just wrote a book about search) but it was [...]
We’re hiring: join one of the most innovative teams at Yahoo!
If you thought the Event Browser was kick-ass like I did, here’s your chance to actually work with the team that built it. Ravi Dronamraju is adding to Team Edison (a team he put together) and just sent this job description over:
Do you have what it takes to build, prototype, innovate? Are [...]
Bono, Mark Hosler, and lost opportunities
So, Bono from U2 was here at Yahoo! yesterday (here’s the Flickr photo). As I’ve mentioned here before, we had Mark Hosler of Negativland pay us a visit barely a month ago. For the uninitiated, Mark and Negativland were sued by U2 for copyright infringement (see the Negativland entry [...]
Openness, advertising, and the Yahoo! Maps API
Amidst all this talk about disruption, maps, and advertising. here’s something I was super-glad to see: a bold clarification about terms of use for maps developers over at the YDN blog from Vince Maniago (yeah, we launched Maps yesterday but no one is sitting still!)
Our position has always been to allow usage of the [...]