Tag: yahoo

Yahoo goes it alone

However, I have to lament yet more needless reinvention of contact schema. Why is this a problem? Well, as I pointed out about Facebook’s approach to developing their own platform methods and formats, having to write and debug against yet another contact schema makes the “tax” of adding support for contact syncing and export increasingly onerous for sites and web services that want to better serve their customers by letting them host and maintain their address book elsewhere.

why didn’t y! use opensocial instead?

Yahoo Losing Local

Yahoo! has always been one of the leaders in local and a kind of standard setter. Relatively speaking, Google is a bit of a “Johnny come lately” in the segment — albeit with a lot of resources and attention. However Google’s devotion to its maps product has paid off and caused it to overtake Yahoo, in the quest to beat market leader MapQuest

this is news?

Yahoo TechTicker

The goal is to attract the CNBC crowd – people who want to be immersed in finance news all day long. The hosts include Henry Blodget, Sarah Lacy and Paul Kedrosky. The team will produce 10-20 original segments per week day, which will be shown live on the site. When live content isn’t streaming, old content will show on a loop.

yahoo still believes in salvation by original content