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Open Source and Cloud Computing - O'Reilly Radar

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:54:38 -0700

But just "paying attention" to cloud computing isn't the point. The point is to rediscover what makes open source tick, but in the new context. It's important to recognize that open source has several key dimensions that contribute to its success: 1. L

SearchMonkey - YDN

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:56:57 -0700

Yahoo! Zimbra Zimbra Collaboration Suite

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:48:17 -0700

Google Tops Website Customer Satisfaction Index

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:31:31 -0700

The University of Michigan’s quarterly customer satisfaction index came out today, and in the Website category Google came out on top with a score of 86 out of 100 (up 10 percent from last year). Yahoo slipped 3 percent to a score of 77. MSN’s score was flat at 75, and tied with NYTimes.com and ABCNews.com. AOL came in at 69, and that is 3 percent better than last year.

Here are some select scores, with the comparable 2007 numbers in parentheses:

American Customer Satisfaction Index Scores (2nd Quarter, 2008)

Google:              86 (78)
Yahoo:           77 (79)
MSNBC.com:        76 (74)
ABCNews.com:   75 (74)
MSN:                   75 (75)
NYTimes.com:    75 (73)
Ask:                    74 (75
CNN.com:            73 (73)
USAToday.com:    73 (72)
AOL:                   69 (67)

The only surprise here is Google’s massive jump. Is it really doing that much of a better job than last year, or is it just that its halo effect keeps growing?

(Photo by Bing Ramos).

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Yahoo Buzz Opens Doors To Everyone

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:10:47 -0700

Buzz, Yahoo’s Digg-like effort to leverage reader gestures and third party content in determining the most popular news, removes it’s barriers to entry tonight.

Until now only a hundred or so invited publishers could post news to Buzz. This was a big plug - Yahoo pushes a few Yahoo Buzz stories to their home page every day, resulting in huge, server-melting traffic surges to the lucky third party sites. Starting tonight, the invitation requirement is gone, and anyone can submit their stories to Buzz.

It’s hard to compare Buzz to Digg. Like AOL’s Propeller, they chose to add editorial discretion in determining headlines to reduce gaming. That also seems to make users less interested in participating, though. In Yahoo’s case the fact that they promote headline stories on the home page of Yahoo gives them a huge traffic boost, which skews results.

Stories can be submitted here once it goes live in a few hours.

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Yahoo! Weather

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:06:41 -0700

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The Weekly RIA Round-Up for August 16 - InsideRIA

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:06:17 -0700

This week brought the death of ECMAScript 4 as we know it, a preview release of YUI 3, a behind the scenes look at NBC's online olympics coverage, and did we mention ECMAScript 4 (it was worth mentioning twice)?

Eclipse do Yahoo - não subestime o poder do "hype"...

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:05:48 -0700

É bastante provável que você tenha lido ou escutado algo sobre o eclipse lunar artificial que o Yahoo faria no dia 16 de agosto (sábado passado). Bom, ocorre que no sábado um eclipse parcial da Lua ocorreu... e não teve nada a ver com o Yahoo.

YUI 3.0 Preview Release 1 " Yahoo! User Interface Blog

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:12:14 -0700

How Do You Rate NBC’s Olympics?

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:06:16 -0700

How would you rate NBC's coverage of Olympics

Warning: This story is meant for our U.S. readers only. As many of you already know, I am giving Olympics the miss and perhaps that is why I am not familiar with the daily coverage on NBC and its online properties. The Olympics apparently have proved to be a bonanza for the company. The Peacock Network CEO Jeff Zucker thinks the viewership number of Olympics prove that network television is still dominant. Mattew Ingram says not so fast, buddy, because Olympics come around once every four years. What about rest of the years… when viewership is declining, because somehow viewers can’t make must-see-TV.

Unfortunately, not everyone seems to be pleased with NBC’s coverage — too many ads, inane and bland commentary and time-delay tactics have got people hopping mad. While Zucker seems to be crowing about how well the Olympics are doing online, Rafat Ali of PaidContent points out that Yahoo’s Olympics section beat out NBCOlympics.com, and sees it as a missed opportunity, thanks to what is described as “bottled excitement.” Russell Beattie, a good friend, pointed out in his typical no-bullshit style that NBC has ruined the Olympics. “What should be a privilege for a national broadcaster has been turned into an extortion racket, holding the Olympics hostage with all of us paying the ransom,” he wrote. NewTeeVee’s Chris Albrecht added, “This could have been a golden moment for online video — too bad NBC just couldn’t stick the landing.”

What grade would you give the NBC coverage, both on TV and on the Internet? Take our poll and leave a comment.

Yahoo! Developer Network - Flash Developer Center

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:05:32 -0700

YSlow for Firebug

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:05:26 -0700

YSlow for Firebug

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 08:05:31 -0700

Flickr taps into open source for better maps. Yahoo Maps to follow? | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 03:05:44 -0700

Start Data Plumbing With Yahoo Pipes - Webmonkey

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 23:11:36 -0700

The Web Developer's Resource

Y! MobActus, Extension pour Firefox

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:09:57 -0700

Plugin pour Firefox qui permet d'obtenir l'équivalant de Y! MobActus comme un "panneau latéral" avec les actualités de Yahoo! France (AFP, Reuter, Eurosport), et les articles des blogs TechCrunch, Techno-Sciences, Pierre Ménès, etc.

Flickr taps into open source for better maps. Yahoo Maps to follow? | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:08:31 -0700

The JSON Utility

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:05:24 -0700

FlashPeak Website - Tabbed Web Browser, Productivity Tools and Internet Utilities

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:05:11 -0700

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Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:12:54 -0700

Fire Eagle : API Explorer

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:13:03 -0700

Fire Eagle : API Explorer

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:11:35 -0700

Yahoo Rounds Out Its Board With Icahn’s Henchmen

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:06:33 -0700

With the appointment of Frank Biondi, Jr. and John Chapple to Yahoo’s board of directors today, the last two slots on the board are now filled. Biondi, the former CEO of Viacom, and Chapple, the former CEO of Nextel, were both on Carl Icahn’s original alternate slate when he was still trying to replace the entire board. As part of his compromise with Yahoo, Icahn backed down from his proxy battle in return for three seats on the board.

After Icahn took his board seat following Yahoo’s shareholder meeting, the only question left was who would take the other two seats. One of them was initially reserved for former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller, until Time Warner pulled it out from under him. So the rest of Yahoo’s board chose Biondi and Chapple as the two least objectionable of Icahn’s henchmen. You really didn’t think they were going to vote for Mark Cuban, did you? Although, that would have been much more entertaining.

Now Icahn, Biondi, and Chapple (The Icahn Three?) can vote as a block, although they won’t be able to block anything outright on the 11-member board. But they are not there to block anything really. They are there to approve and encourage another deal that results in the sale of Yahoo.

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Hadoop: When grownups do open source | The Register

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:11:05 -0700

Zimbra on your Desktop

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:09:12 -0700

Yahoo offline desktop software

Flickr taps into open source for better maps. Yahoo Maps to follow? | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:05:11 -0700

Yahoo! Groups Blog

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:04:33 -0700

Mobilize 08: More Speakers Added, Early Bird Special To End Soon

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:05:57 -0700

We are working hard to prepare for our Mobilize 08 conference scheduled to be held on September 18 in San Francisco. You already know about Rich Miner (Google), Padmasree Warrior (Cisco Systems) and John Roese (Nortel). Today we are adding more awesome speakers to our growing lineup:

* Scott Richardson - Chief Strategy Officer of Clearwire
* Fred Kitson - VP, Applications Research, Motorola
* Marc Davis - Chief Scientist of Yahoo! Connected Life.

We are going to announce a few more in coming days including some candidate for fireside chats. Stay tuned, and if you haven’t bought your tickets already, it might be a good a time since our early bird special is ending soon. If you sign up now, you can save some money off the full price. (Ticketing information here.)

For mobile startups cooking up new products, iPhone apps or simply looking to launch in front of an influential audience, it might be a good time to apply for our LaunchPad, a free contest that will feature startups picked by our elite panel of judges. Entry form is here.

Different IMs For Different Folks

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:06:16 -0700

Jeff LaPorte, co-founder and chief architect at EQO Communications, has come-up with an IM Map of the world using his company’s IM interconnect capability, showing each country seems to have a preference for a different IM network.

For instance, 77.18 percent of Argentineans love MSN, followed by 9.99 percent who love GTalk. Mexicans (83.72 percent), Brazilians (77.18 percent) Dutch (65.41 percent), French (68.01 percent), Italians (60.45 percent) the Turks (75.6 percent) are all big MSN users. In many parts of Asia, Yahoo is big.

In Germany, however, they heart ICQ, while in the United States AIM (35 percent) still rules with Yahoo (25 percent) and MSN (23.93 percent) getting the silver and the bronze. GTalk has just over 12 percent share in the United States — a surprisingly large number. Another surprising fact about the numbers is how marginal AIM is outside of the States.

My only quibble with this data: Why no Skype, which is a very popular IM client/service across the world? If I remember correctly, EQO started off by offering mobile access to Skype, but later changed its game after being ignored by Skype.

Yahoo lança plataforma de localização online Fire Eagle - Internet - IDG Now!

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:05:14 -0700

to desenvolvedores podem usá-la para adicionar recursos de localização a seus serviços. O site de compartilhamento Pownce, por exemplo, usará o Fire Eagle para acrescentar tags geográficas a músicas, fotos e outros arquivos. Os usuários do Fire Eagle poderão escolher o grau de precisão para exibição da sua localização – como o nome da cidade ou uma posição mais exata, baseada em GPS.