MetaFilter posts tagged with yahoo

"Fit" to report?

starman — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:36:11 -0800

In a recent Wall Street Journal story asking if Obama is "too fit" to be president, the reporter uses a Yahoo! message board to find sources (Google cache of the post). (via DF)

Flickr founders leaving Yahoo

timeistight — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:23:13 -0800

Please turn off the lights. The founders of flickr are joining the executives leaving Yahoo. Caterine Fake left Friday; Stewart Butterfield will leave July 12th.

Search engine battle heats up

SharQ — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:52:09 -0800

According to ComScore, Google takes 59.8% of search traffic in the US, leaving Yahoo, MSN and smaller players to fight for the scraps. Pretty pie-chart here. Slightly different numbers are available from Compete and Hitwise, but Google still rules the roost.

The head of a small company may still choose to be a tyrant; a large organization is compelled by its structure to be one

Blazecock Pileon — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:25:52 -0800

In an artificial world, only extremists live naturally. Or: You weren't meant to have a boss. On the other hand, maybe you are.

Now that they've stopped Picking, maybe it'll heal

wendell — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 14:06:24 -0800

It feels like the Death of My Internet Childhood. After attempting to identify "the best of the web" since August 1995, Yahoo! has stopped updating its Yahoo! Picks, preferring to showcase its airheaded-video-based The 9 (for those who can't count all the way to 10). For historical reference, here is their annualized best of 1996, 1997 (part 1, part 2) when they said "Thanks to all six of you for reading..." (and I was one of them), 1998 (part 1, part 2), 1999 (part 1, part 2), "the Millennium", 2000 (part 1, part 2), 2001 (part 1, part 2), (nothing in 2002 when they changed from a weekly digest to one pick per day) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007. For the record, yes, I subscribed to the dead-tree magazine Yahoo! Internet Life and still occasionally reference a MyYahoo homepage. I am so-o-o 1998.

Yahoo's new BravoNation

riffola — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:53:44 -0800

Yahoo's new BravoNation brings Xbox Live type achievements to the world outside of gaming. You can send or receive homemade awards from any user. They are banking on third party sites using their API to hand out bravo awards to people for doing various things. Our own waxpancake has the exclusive first look.

Rule #1: Don't Post About Yourself Anonymously on the Internet

ThePinkSuperhero — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 10:01:10 -0800

In January 2005 , someone using the name "Rahodeb" went online to a Yahoo stock-market forum and posted this opinion: "No company would want to buy Wild Oats Markets Inc., a natural-foods grocer, at its price then of about $8 a share." Who was that random fool? Why, none other than John Mackey, co-founder and CEO of Whole Foods. Whole Foods purchased Wild Oats earlier this year for approximately $18.50 a share, but the FTC has an issue with Whole Foods buying out their competitor. Mackey had responded to the FTC's complaint on his blog, but has not posted since some of his other online comments became publicly attached to his name.

Social Networking Wars

chuckdarwin — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:57:32 -0800

Google's Socialstream aims to be a "a system where users can seamlessly share, view, and respond to many types of social content across multiple networks." Possibly worried about being outdone (again), Yahoo! is working on a new social networking site called Mosh. [via mobuzz]

video profiles--from activists to huggers to outers to excons to the religious ....

amberglow — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 17:55:56 -0800

People of the Web --very well done short video profiles of interesting people online. Mike Rogers of blogactive is on the front page now. Links to previous profiles are on the right, including Kirk Cameron, Caleb Shikles, Sherman Austin, and Josh Wolf.

Web 2.0 clichés abound in Yahoo! Oz's new search product

Milkman Dan — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 08:39:20 -0800

Yahoo! Australia introduces a new search engine that uses OpenSearch and pretty little AJAX tricks to integrate results from Flickr, Wikpedia, YouTube (and so on). You can customize the layout, and even add your own search sources. It’s called Alpha, it’s currently in Beta, and aims to get through the rest of the Greek alphabet by June. (Via podlob.)